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^ 47 work for the coming year.” Carrie Catt, however, still had the authority to assign managers and lecturers to the committee’s projects.According to Lillie Blake,SBA and Carrie Catt both asked her, in the fall of 1895, to take charge of the Delaware campaign. According to SBA, when Catt called on her in New York City on February 5, they talked about Blake managing the work, and SBA assumed that Blake would soon have an offer from the Organization Committee. Meanwhile, Catt was sending in the organizers regularly employed by her committee. In December 1895 and January 1896, Mary Hay arranged meetings around the state at which Henrietta Moore spoke, and they oversaw the formation of a state equal suffrage association. In March and April, Catt sent Mary Bradford and Laura Gregg to work in Delaware. (Report of the Twenty-eighth Annual Convention, 1896, pp. 60, 70, 119–20, and Report of the Twenty-ninth Annual Convention, 1897, p. 75, and SBA to L.D.Blake,7 February,9 April 1896,and L.D.Blake to SBA,2 April 1896, all in Film, 35:304ff, 552–53, 678–79, 690–91, 36:744ff; History, 4:563–64.) 7. Voters in Idaho would decide on woman suffrage at the election of November 1896. After the measure passed in the legislature in January 1895, Carrie Catt dispatched Emma DeVoe to the state as an organizer for two months.In the spring of 1896,she sent Laura Johns,adding Mary Bradford late in the summer. (History, 4:589–93; T. A. Larson, “Woman’s Rights in Idaho,” Idaho Yesterdays 16 [Spring 1972]: 2–19; Jennifer M. Ross-Nazzal, Winning the West for Women: The Life of Suffragist Emma Smith DeVoe [Seattle, Wash., 2011], 86–107.) Textual Notes¶3 ll. 12–13 World’s Fair to the working men n& womenp of the nation l. 16 within the pervue npurviewp l. 29 told you so.” But, for nForp ••••••••• 12 • SBA to ECS [Rochester, c. 10 February 1896]1 During three weeks of agony of soul,with scarcely a night of sleep,I have felt I must resign my presidency,but then the rights of the minority are to be respected and protected by me quite as much as the action of the majority is to be resented; and it is even more my duty to stand firmly with the minority because principle is with them. I feel very sure that after a year’s reflection upon the matter, the same women, and perhaps the one man, who voted for this interference with personal rights, will be ready to declare that their duty as individuals does not require them to disclaim freedom of speech in their co-workers. Sister Mary says the action of the convention convinces 10 february 1896 48 & her that the time has not yet come for me to resign; whereas she had felt most strongly that I ought to do it for my own sake. No, my dear, instead of my resigning and leaving those half-fledged chickens without any mother, I think it my duty and the duty of yourself and all the liberals to be at the next convention and try to reverse this miserable, narrow action. Y Anthony, 2:855. 1. Ida Harper made no reference to a date for this text that survives only as she edited it. The mention of three weeks since the vote against ECS suggests a date a week later than shown here. The similarity between the views expressed here and those in the previous letter to Clara Colby suggest this earlier date. ••••••••• 13 • ECS to the Editors, CRITIC 1 26 West 61st Street, New York, 29 Feb. 1896. To the Editors of The Critic:— On January 25th you printed a communication, signed Annie Bronson King2 (Oxford, England), in which the writers of “The Woman’s Bible” are attacked. They have published Part I., comprising comments on the Pentateuch, and are now busy on Part II., extending to the Book of Ezra. Our critic thinks that the women who compose the Committee are not fitted for the work they have undertaken.3 She says:— While the great scholars of Europe, the Oriental linguists, the anthropologists, the students of the monuments and the manuscripts, have been adding patiently, year after year, to the store of the world’s knowledge of the Hebrew Scriptures, their discoveries have been almost wholly ignored in the teaching which has been given to the great mass of the American...

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