A “miss” of an uncertain number of years, more or less brains, a slimsy figure, nut-cracker face and store teeth, goes raiding about the country attempting to teach mothers and wives their duty....  As is the yellow-fever to the South, the grasshopper to the plains, and diphtheria to our northern cities, so is Susan B. Anthony and her class to all true, pure, lovely women.  The sirocco of the desert blows no hotter or more tainting breath in the face of the traveller, than does this woman against all men who do not believe as she does, and no pestilence makes sadder havoc among them than would Susan B. Anthony if she had the power.  The women who make homes, who are sources of comfort to husbands, fathers, brothers, sisters or themselves, who wish to keep sacred all that goes to make their lives noble, refined and worth the living, will be as diametrically opposed to the lecturer of last evening as are most intelligent men.  Susan B. Anthony may find her remedy in suffrage, but alas! there is no remedy for us against Susan and her ilk.

Each lecture usually was followed by letters not only from friends but from entire strangers, asking her forgiveness for having misjudged her so many years, and closing something like this from a lady in St. Paul, Minn.:  “For the last ten years your name has been familiar to me through the newspapers, or rather through newspaper ridicule, and has always been associated with what was pretentious and wholly unamiable.  Your lecture tonight has been a revelation to me.  I wanted to come and touch your hand, but I felt too guilty.  Henceforth I am the avowed defender of woman suffrage.  Never again shall a word of mine be heard derogatory to the noble women who are working with heart and hand for the best welfare of humanity.”

A two-column interview in the Chicago Tribune during this tour gives Miss Anthony’s views on many public matters, concluding thus: 

“If men would only think of the question without paying attention to prejudice or precedent, simply as one of political economy, they would soon begin to regard woman, and woman’s rights, just as they regard themselves and their own rights,” said she.

    “The W.C.T.U. are doing good work, are they not?”

“Yes, Miss Willard is doing noble work, but I can not coincide with her views, and my new lecture, ‘Will Home Protection Protect,’ will combat them.  The officer who holds his position by the votes of men who want free whiskey, can not prosecute the whiskey-sellers.  The district-attorney and the judge can not enforce the law when they know that to do so will defeat them at the next election.  If women had votes the officials would no longer fear to enforce the law, as they would know that though they lost the votes of 5,000 whiskey-sellers and drinkers, they would gain those of 20,000 women.  Miss Willard has a lever, but she has no fulcrum on which to place it.”

    “Where do you find the strongest antipathy to woman suffrage?”