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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... less im- perfect , we found that outside of New York City , in three - fourths of the towns and villages of the State , the women paid taxes on $ 369,000,000 . I notice in the press a statement somebody has made lately that the women of ...
... less im- perfect , we found that outside of New York City , in three - fourths of the towns and villages of the State , the women paid taxes on $ 369,000,000 . I notice in the press a statement somebody has made lately that the women of ...
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... less than ten women had writs served upon them to serve as members of the Parliament . They were peeresses , and I suppose received this honor on account of their birth . But we are all peeresses in America , and we are ready and ...
... less than ten women had writs served upon them to serve as members of the Parliament . They were peeresses , and I suppose received this honor on account of their birth . But we are all peeresses in America , and we are ready and ...
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... less , the different experiences of life , the different positions they occupy , give them still a different point of view from that of men , and you want both points of view in order to get the whole well - rounded truth . But women ...
... less , the different experiences of life , the different positions they occupy , give them still a different point of view from that of men , and you want both points of view in order to get the whole well - rounded truth . But women ...
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... less generous ? We ask this Congress to make itself historic by asserting that the Declara- tion of Independence refers to all rational human beings as the possess- ors of the inalienable rights there affirmed . [ Applause . ] Miss ...
... less generous ? We ask this Congress to make itself historic by asserting that the Declara- tion of Independence refers to all rational human beings as the possess- ors of the inalienable rights there affirmed . [ Applause . ] Miss ...
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... less favorable for her than for himself , and thus obtain for him- self an unfair advantage over her . This , however , is the situation to - day . Men , through their right of suffrage and their consequent power over legislation , have ...
... less favorable for her than for himself , and thus obtain for him- self an unfair advantage over her . This , however , is the situation to - day . Men , through their right of suffrage and their consequent power over legislation , have ...
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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...