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Martha Anneke Lanne
Alhambra, Calif. March 14, 1930.
Why Mathilde Fransiska Anneke should be nominated for the National Roll of Honor,
Because she stood up for Woman's Rights at an early age, when it took courage, capability and insight to do so and very few woman had any progressive ideas. Her work, starting in her home Westphalia, Germany, where she published a paper in behalf of Woman's Rights in 1847, continued in our United States after coming over with her husband as fugitives in 1849, again published a Woman's Rights paper, spoke at conventions, for instance at Broadway Tabernacle, a conven(handing writing on the lfe says "Veronique and") tion of historic value, September 1853 when women were insulted by mobs and protected by Wendell Phillips. Here she was also nominated as Vice President (Lucretia Mott, President) together with the best women and men of the time. (See "History of Women Suffrage" by Stanton, Anthony, Gage). Took part in conventions at New York City, Washington D.C. (where she spoke in English, with some foreign accent to be sure, but yet compared in her earnestness of feeling and rendition of speech to the great Louis Kossuth) Milwaukee, etc. became an esteemed and intimate friend of our best forerunners in the cause Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Wendell Phillips, W. Lloyd Carrison, Gerrit Smith and others. Went as delegate to conventions numerous times.
On the 4th of June 1904 in her opening address of the International Congress in Berlin for Woman's Rights, Susan B. Anthony spoke of "a courageous Westphalian woman, who had fought as a faithful co-worker, year after year, side by side with her for the achievement of Woman's Rights, and whose work doubtless we have to thank for what had been gained in America in this direction. This woman's name was Mathilde Fransiska Anneke."
Born in 1817 in Westphalia, Germany, died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1884, where she conducted a school for young girls for eighteen years until one year before her death. Many scholars in different parts of our globe still live, honoring her memory and loving her for the good she instilled into them and help make their lives beautiful and happy.
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To Miss Susan B. Anthony Pres't of the National Women Suffrage Convention held at Washington D.C. January 15th 1874.
The [radical?/judicial?], men and women possessed of the earnest desire to bring a organization of our republican institution according to radically [deveated?] principles, men and women [illegible] whom are to be found many tried and true republicans that have given a life-time to the contest for liberty in Europe and against slavery in our own country, deem it their pleasant duty to assure your [condition?] of the most cordial sympathy and willing cooperation in the grand uniformatory work you have undertaken.
Not many years ago the demand for equality of the rights of all citizens, male and female, was generally treated with [illegible word] and held to be a Utopian [faulty?], not by the ignorant masses alone, but by those as well who represented the male one half of the people, the law-givers, and those who make public opinion, the operators and editors not even the justice of that demand in principle was then conceded by one in a thousand of our people, and there was scarcely one in a hundred thousand but what apprehended the most serious political social and moral calamities in case the demand should ever be granted. Behold the change!
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The cardinal point in this movement, Women Suffrage, is discovered earnestly and in a decent tone by all the papers in the Union that are at all worth reading; it is brought before public assembly without danger of the speakers being maffed; and is has become a marker of daily conversation among all the thinking men and women of our nation.
The irrefutable arguements of common sense and justice have driven our opponents from ditch to ditch until they were forced to concede without resolve that our cause is just in principle; and the overwhelming will of the practical experiances made in Wyoming Territory during the last four years has finally broken the last [citardel?] of their prejudice: the question of experience.
Being in a large city in which the majority of the inhabitants are Germans by birth or descent and being enabled by our connections to form a reliable judgement upon the views of the German-American citizens in general we would here state, that in consequence of the constant and fearless agitation carried on by the German Radicals, the change of opinion in regard to the [illegible] question has among the part of the people been greater than among the said element, though the opposition in that quarter years ago, bore the very most character.
History shows us such victories of Truth and radical thought over superstition and prejudice through all ages; from century to century the human race has stoodby but surely been freed from the spiritual bondage of [priest?] craft and the physical deposition of princes and nobles; it is equally certain that the supremecy claimed by the male sex hitherto on[e] account of their superior weight of bone and muscle [??] be relinquished before many years have [??] their course, and the time will come when those of our citizens who
