Ida Husted Harper

Footnote.

Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, in collaboration with Susan B. Anthony, has written a history of W. suffrage which deals with the subject so far as the United States are concerned.

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The American women had to struggle not only for their rights as citizens, but they encountered great difficulty in securing an education.

Footnote.

Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, in collaboration with Susan B. Anthony, has written a History of W. Suffrage which deals with the subject so far as the United States are concerned.

End footnote.

The American women had to struggle not only for their rights as citizens, but they encountered great difficulty in securing an education.

with

the aid of Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, the brilliant writer, who afterward became her biographer, to arrange a series of meetings for Miss Anthony at Terre Haute.

In due course of time, I received a telegram from Miss Anthony from Lafayette, announcing the time of her arrival at Terre Haute and asking me to meet her at the station.

I recognized the distinguished lady, or, to be more exact, the notorious woman, the instant she stepped from the train.

The faded and time-worn old card carried me back to the day I met Miss Anthony, at the depot on her arrival at Terre Haute.

where she was to speak in public for her sex.

At that time, Miss Ida Husted Harper, who afterward became Miss Anthony's confidential friend and authorized biographer, and I, and two or three others, were about the only people in Terre Haute who believed that woman was a human being and entitled to the rights of citizenship.

We had arranged these meetings for Miss Anthony and her three active coadjutors in Woman's Cause of the Time, and they arrived according to the schedule.

But the American women believe that, quote, if every prayer, every tear can be supported by the power of the ballot, mothers will no longer shed powerless tears over the misfortunes of their children, end quote.

Footnote: Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, in collaboration with Susan B. Anthony, has written a History of W. Suffrage, which deals with the subject so far as the United States are concerned.

End footnote.

The American women had to struggle not only for their rights as citizens, but they encountered great difficulty in securing an education.