Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-10-05
TO the Women Of Iowa.
DEs Morxrs, Sept. Is, 1871.


The Execrtlve Committee of the
Iowa Woman Suffrage ASSOCIATION,
have requested me to take necessary
steps to secure full representation
OF the friends cf woman suffrage at
onr next annual meeting. to be held
help a. Des Moines on the 10Th OF
OctnOer.
In hehalf Of the Aseociation-bnt
assuming personal responsibility
for the particular views l may ex-
press-1 beg to call the attention Of
the mothers, wives and daughters OF
Iowa to few suggestions for their
most thoughtful consideration.
Twenty one years ago. in the call
for national convention to he held at
Worcester ON the 18th and 10Th of
October. the following subjects VI re
presented for discussion: NV Wo,nan's
Right to E,lucation-L,terary, Scien-
tific and Artistic; her Avncat.ons--
Industrial. her Interests-Pecuniary
Civil, Political; in a word. her rights
as an individual and functions as a
citizen
This bill Of Woman's Rights or
Declaration OF Independence was re.
echoed through both hemisphere .,
and arrested the attention OF the
great thinkers OF the civilized world.
Conservatism was started from its
Rip Van Wrinkle sleep, and the
newspaper press, with hardly'an ex-
cep,ion, prophesled the utter degra-
ton Of the sex IA the frnits Of this
'snew departure" for women.
Let us enquire Of these same
prophets Of evil. how far their idle
tears have been realized? Womau's
Right to "Edncstion--Lit erary,
Scientific and Artistic-Her Avoca-
tions-Indnstr,al, Commercial and
Professional have been gradually
concceded. until to-day, this part Of
her Bill Of Rights is an accomplished
fact, and the daughters of America
conservatives and progressionis,s-- --
in their enlarged spheres of useful
ness, are nrw reaping the benefits of
the moral hcroism Of the leaders Of
that convention.
The leading statesmen and think
era of the age, those who lead the
advance guard in letters. ia law, IN
politics and religion, those who di.
rect the march OF events in both
hemispheres. have conceded not only
woman's right to exercise any and all
avocations. but the Justice OF her
claim to political equality. And po
litical rights have already been con
farred upon women in many parts of
Europe and in two Of our Terrific
Ties. ag4
Therefore tho time has passed for
the discussion OF Woman's Right to
to the Ballot. It now only requires
one more combined and determined
effort on the part of tho women oi
Iowa to secure it.
The noble men of Iowa who have
stood by us. complain OF our talter-
ing and inactiv,ty, while our enemies,
vanauished in argument, have de.
secuted to personal scandal for the
purpose Of poisoning the public
Judgment against us, and are seeking
to make the suffrage party responsi-
BILE tor the oMnions Of fanatical ad-
ventures who always attach them
selves TO great reform.
The lqnestion and the only ques
ticn, which has heen raised by the
suffrage party of Iowa, is that Of po'
iti"al equality.
The Republican party was organ
ICED upon the simple issue et "Ne
more slave territory A man nigh,
| believe in perpetuat,ng slavery in tht
| States where it existed. and nigh,
buy aud sell slaves in the slav.
States and still b6in full communio,
with the "new party" he might rol
the slave owner OF his lawful proper
ty and vet occupy high seat in tn
councils Of the "great moral patty.
His opinions upon tho questions o
fss lovs sr free trade, were nevc
asked, his home continued 10 he th
sanc, uarv. and was not invaded. tina
the morbid appetite OF the publ
might be ted with the story OF hi
domestic misfortune or his crime.
! Ifhe but pronounced the s'shihbolOth