Woman Suffrage: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Woman Suffrage, United States Senate, on the Joint Resolution (S.R. 53) Proposng an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, Extending the Right of Suffrage to Women

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 - 39 páginas

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Página 6 - 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 - 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...
Página 6 - 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 4 - ... the proposed reform is to benefit. Many changes for the better have been made during the last half century in the laws, written and unwritten, relating to women. Everybody approves of these changes now, because they have become accomplished facts. But not one of them would have been made to this day, if it had been necessary to wait till the majority of women asked for it.
Página 7 - 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 6 - 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 1 - In 1896 full Suffrage was granted in Utah and Idaho. "In 1898, the women of Ireland were given the right to vote for all offices, except members of Parliament; Minnesota gave women the right to vote for library trustees; Delaware gave School Suffrage to...
Página 10 - ... can vote for members of the local Parliament. They have municipal suffrage throughout England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, nine of the provinces of Canada, Sweden and Denmark. In some of these countries they have had it for generations. In all these places put together, the opponents thus far have not found a dozen respectable men who assert over their own names and addresses that it has had any bad results. This is...

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