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^ 111 Massachusetts: Biographies and Autobiographies of the Leading Men in the State [Boston, 1909], vol. 2, s.v. “Charles Henry Bond” [unpaginated].) 3. See Robbins, History and Minutes of the National Council of Women, pp. 285–89, Film, 36:118ff. 4. Mary Lowe Dickinson (1839–1914) became president of the National Council of Women in 1895, and in that capacity organized ECS’s eightieth birthday celebration in New York City. A poet, novelist, teacher, professor of literature, and editor, Dickinson also distinguished herself as a leader in women’s organizations, notably as the longtime leader of the King’s Daughters. (WWW1; Woman’s Who’s Who 1914; Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan, The Part Taken by Women in American History [Wilmington, Del., 1912], 713–15; New York Times, 9 June 1914. See also Papers 5.) 5. Louise A. Barnum Robbins (1844–1918) was corresponding secretary of the National Council of Women from 1895 to 1899. A graduate in 1864 of Adrian College and president of its alumnae association, she married after the Civil War and stayed in Adrian, where her husband, Richard B. Robbins, practiced law and served in the state legislature. Before she came to the attention of leaders in the National Council of Women in 1895, Robbins had served as president of the Michigan Woman’s Relief Corps. (“Mrs. Louise Barnum Robbins, B.S.” College World 11 [1 April 1896]: 110–17; Woman’s Who’s Who 1914; Certificate of Death, Lenawee County, Michigan Department of State, in Death Records, 1897–1920, Mi; with the assistance of Noelle C. Keller, Shipman Library, Adrian College.) Y Excelsior Diary 1896, n.p., SBA Papers, DLC. ••••••••• 46 • Remarks by SBA to the National Council of Women Editorial note: SBA was not announced to be a speaker at this public session of the National Council’s meetings. The topic was “Work of Departments.” She may have been asked to address the audience when Frances Willard failed to keep her engagement as a speaker. [4 December 1896] Miss Susan B. Anthony was introduced as embodying the true spirit of ’76, and was received with waving handkerchiefs and applause. She said that, being in Boston, she never dreamed of being so received. The papers say that Anna Shaw and Susan B. Anthony have returned from California with their feathers drooping,she said.(Applause) (“Not a bit of it.”) “Bless you,” she continued, “how little men know.” 1 1–3 december 1896 112 & For 50 years we have been trying to educate men to know that liberty is just as precious to women as to men. As yet, only one state, Colorado, has learned the lesson. In California, that land of the brave and home of gallantry , we hoped much. Seven women from the East have tramped up and down the hills preaching liberty to women. But we had in California, what we have almost everywhere, the upper crust against us. It is queer, but the millionaires seem to have no use for women except as pets or drudges. We were beaten there by numbers, it is true, in San Francisco and Oakland by the influence of one great business concern. The press, the religious influence, and all organizations were for us. All the parties put full-fledged suffrage in their platforms. What do you guess was the business that didn’t like us? (“Rum.”) They thought it would destroy their business. And 20,000 votes were polled in San Francisco alone against the suffrage amendment. You Boston folks are not so immaculate that you don’t know what that business was. We are not beaten. The lines are closely drawn. There is but one organized enemy. Shall all other enterprises be held back by this one business? Miss Anthony was frequently interrupted by applause. Y Boston Herald, 5 December 1896. 1. Voters in California defeated the amendment by a vote of 110,355 to 137,099. Sharp regional differences were evident: in Los Angeles the amendment passed handily, and voters in many southern counties favored it; in San Francisco voters trounced the amendment,and it lost by a narrower margin across the Bay in Alameda County, though Berkeley voters passed it. The amendment fared better where temperance and prohibition were popular, while its defeat in the cities on the Bay coincided with the presence of powerful liquor lobbies. (California Secretary of State, Statement of the Vote of California for Presidential Electors and Congressmen , Nov. 3, 1896 [Sacramento, Calif., 1896], p. 15, in SBA scrapbook 25, Rare...

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