Woman Suffrage: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Woman Suffrage, United States Senate, on the Joint Resolution (S. R. 53) Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, Extending the Right of Suffrage to Women. [February 18, 1902]U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 - 39 páginas |
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... election in November more than half of the male popu- lation in our ward voted ! We We visited 1,227 homes of women in this ward and interviewed them , and we found a great many , of course , that have no opinions on these subjects ...
... election in November more than half of the male popu- lation in our ward voted ! We We visited 1,227 homes of women in this ward and interviewed them , and we found a great many , of course , that have no opinions on these subjects ...
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... election and present themselves at the polls . Aliens , if men , which they are in a larger proportion , may overcome their exclusion by varying periods of resi- dence in the different States . Minors , if boys , will vote at twenty ...
... election and present themselves at the polls . Aliens , if men , which they are in a larger proportion , may overcome their exclusion by varying periods of resi- dence in the different States . Minors , if boys , will vote at twenty ...
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... election that more than half the men refuse to vote . But if one man or woman wants to exercise the right to vote , what earthly reason is there for denying it because other men and women do not wish to exercise it ? If I desire to ...
... election that more than half the men refuse to vote . But if one man or woman wants to exercise the right to vote , what earthly reason is there for denying it because other men and women do not wish to exercise it ? If I desire to ...
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... election of December , 1901 , the choice of the school committee was a question of exceptional interest . Ten mem- bers were to be elected instead of eight ( the usual number ) , and several daily papers had been for months making an ...
... election of December , 1901 , the choice of the school committee was a question of exceptional interest . Ten mem- bers were to be elected instead of eight ( the usual number ) , and several daily papers had been for months making an ...
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... election some women were elected to the school boards ; and they showed so much aptitude for this sort of work that ... elections and to serve on municipal boards . I know one woman who acted for two years as mayor of a very prosperous ...
... election some women were elected to the school boards ; and they showed so much aptitude for this sort of work that ... elections and to serve on municipal boards . I know one woman who acted for two years as mayor of a very prosperous ...
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Página 26 - I long to hear that you have declared an independency — and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.
Página 3 - Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring) : That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
Página 3 - SECTION 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. SECTION 2. Congress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provisions of this article.
Página 22 - Women Do Not Want It. Whenever the majority of women ask for suffrage, they will get it. Every improvement in the condition of women thus far has been secured not by a general demand from the majority of women, but by the arguments, entreaties and "continual coming" of a persistent few. In each case the advocates of progress have had to contend not merely with the conservatism of men, but with the indifference of women, and often with active opposition from some of them. When a man in Saco, Me.,...
Página 26 - If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
Página 23 - So it is, and must be always, my dear boys. If the Angel Gabriel were to come down from Heaven, and head a successful rise against the most abominable and unrighteous vested interest which this poor old world groans under, he would most certainly lose his character for many years, probably for centuries, not only with upholders of said vested interest, but with the respectable mass of the people whom he had delivered.
Página 11 - All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights ; among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. To secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Página 26 - Wyoming in 1869. During the twenty years from 1870 to 1890, divorce in the United States at large increased about three times as fast as the population. In the group of western states, omitting Wyoming, it increased nearly four times as fast as the population. In Wyoming it increased only about half as fast as the population. "An ounce of experiment is worth a ton of theory.
Página 23 - Do you think I would give myself where I would not give my property?" When Elizabeth Blackwell began to study medicine, women at her boarding house refused to speak to her, and women passing her on the street held their skirts aside. It is a matter of history with what ridicule and opposition Mary Lyon's first efforts for the education of women were received, not only...
Página 21 - In 1896 full suffrage was granted in Utah and Idaho. In 1898 the women of Ireland were given the right to vote for all officers except members of Parliament, Minnesota gave women the right to vote for library trustees, Delaware gave school suffrage to taxpaying women...