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Title: Obituary for Kate Austin Author: Ross Winn Date: 1902 Language: en Topics: obituary, Kate Austin Source: Retrieved on March 20, 2012 from http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Obituary_for_Kate_Austin Notes: Originally appearing in Winn’s Firebrand, Vol. I No. 4, December 1, 1902.
Kate Austin, a noble and heroic woman, a fearless friend of freedom and
humanity, a great intellect and a warm, true heart, is dead. Born and
reared upon a farm, and among simple and everyday folk, her mind
expanded and her mental sweep touched the distant worlds, and beheld the
glories of the intellectual life. In the van of the army of progress
there are a few fine and fearless souls who are endowed with the
prophetic spirit—who see and feel the glory of the on-coming
achievements of the race; and of these Kate Austin was one. This woman,
living a quiet domestic life, a farmer’s wife, became known to thousands
of progressive thinkers thru her contributions to the radical press; and
her pen was a power well weilded in behalf of human freedom. She was one
of the few who are not afraid of themselves, and have full faith in
humanity. She was always fearlessly frank. She was not afraid of words.
Kate Austin was a remarkable woman; one of those heroins whose names,
tho never enshrined in the pantheon of history, deserve a higher place
on the roll of human greatness than the honored names of the crowned and
titled nobodies whom an ignorant multitude so stupidly venerate. We, who
knew her work and worth, must lay the only garlands upon her grave, and
to her memory pay the tribute of our love and tears.