Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-01-09
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
The Sixteenth Amendment COMven.
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Altel ohf report OF the proceedings OF the
tenth annual convention of the Woman Suf-
| frage Association at Lincoln hall closed yester-
day, Mrs. Spencer stated the reasons which had
| caused change in the intended order of pro-
| ceedings,and which had led TO decision to hold
| morning session today. Mrs. Hooker intro
| duced MlsS.Iulia Smith of Glastonbury Conn.,,
| he OF the Smith sisters who persistently re-
sisted the tax collector. She told her story
| pleasantly and well.
tne woman S department. of the Chicago Inter
ocean; Mrs. Brown. of Connecticut: Mrs
! Stanton, Mrs Spencer. Mrs: Lille Devereaux,
! DIR. Mary Thompson, Mrs. Napoleon Cromwell
and Mrs. Olympia Brown followed.
AT THE EVENING SESSION.
| Mrs; M. Gage madea ewremarks, calling
| property to the amount of 500 had been con-
! Seded the right of voting by the same New
York court which had denied the right to
| Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton then delivered
an earnest, thoughtful ana impressive lecture
, ON National protection for national citizens
! OF sixteenth amendment were given addi-
! tonal force by The clear enunciatiOn and fine
| delivery of the greatest of women orators
! Many Of her sentences were epigrammatic and
! caustic, and her happy hits were thoroughly
| appreciated and enjoyed by the audience The
| Supreme Court, which had once decided that
| the negro was not a citizen because he did not
| vote, and now decides that a woman can not
| vote, though a citizen, received considerable
| attention at her hands. 'COIOred suffrage was
R2e3 1neeeSsS 1s
| States, a moral neceSSity?'' Is the world to
be always governed by dead men?" Shall
! We not have
! LIVING MEN FOR LIVING ISsUES?'
| capacity Tor striking and witty SallieS like
| the foregoing combined with the SOundeSt ar
sumentatlve powers cause Mrs. Stanton to
rank high among the public speakers of the
United States.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker next gave a
very entertaining sketch of her plan for
that she was established as superintendent of
police in some city.-say Washington.
Mrs Hooker explained that her lecture had
cial science club, as supplement to the dis
| cuSSiOn of "trampS.'' it being thought fitting
that the. police should be after the trampS.
| Her police force is to be presided over bV
female Superintendent. and her force is to
| consist III part OF matr0ns TO visit prisons. In
| referring to the fact that her police force
should be skilled in the use of firearms lin or
! der to shoot an escaping prisoner precisely
| in tie leg }, the suggestion was made that
| ALL WOMEN SHOULD LEARN THE USE OF TIE
| PISTOL,
| in order to defend themselves in these times
| which seem so dangerous to the sex. The
| speaker raised quite q breeze among The au-
| dience by suggesting that for the repetition of
| minor offences the stocks and whipping post
| should be called INTO requlSltlOn as punish
mCnt. Some person iii the hall exclaimed,
There is only one whipping post in the United
| states, and that, thank God, will soon be abOl-
| ished!' Mrs. HoOker's plan of dispensing
| mObS by causing the engines Of the fire depart
| ment to play upon them, thus trying the water
cure for riotous disorders, amused the au-
| dlence immensely. Her lecture was, as Il
! Who,e. decidedly Interesting, and aboundcd in
| vigorous and pointed remarks.
THE REPRESENTATION
! by letters and delegates at the convention is
| as follows WS:-CaifOrnia-EIcn Clarke Sargent :
| letters from Laura DeFOrce Gordon, Sarah 5.
| Knox Elizabeth Schenck, and petitions
from u. cities. CoIorado-Mrs: H6cthman.
| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Beecher Hooker, Julia
| smith. OF Glastonbury Rev. Olympia Brown.
| Illinois-Eiizabeh Boynton Harbert delegate :
more than thousand names from 9 cities In
! Terlitory-No delegate OF letter. Iow;,-Let-
ters from Ella X. Holmes and many others.
| and 80 names to petitions from cities. Kan
s,Is-LetterS from Elsie Stewart, and 623 names
from = cities. Louisiana-Letter from Eliz-
abeih L. Saxon, and petitions from many tax
hayIng !ftIang women; yn Maryansd;Iietters and pc
! Massachusetts-MaryA A. Livernore sent the
! first roll Of petitions. and cities send $50
| names. Mrs. Livermore desired to be here to
osa too se Refes om Hdsa
Aicott, Mary +: Eastman, Lacy Stone. and
vast. vast numbers as of others, Sihers Mr. and Mrs Law
! keightley and Lilly Lerich Williams. Letters
from Arietta G. Spalding and many others,
and 6lO names 10 18th amendment petitions
| from cities. Minnesota-Mrs II. S. ingalls,.
!! 20 years old, sends 273 names, and cities send
more than 4 thousand names to Congress.
MslssiSSsippl-Carrie ': Morgan, a quadroon,
titionS from cities, and letters from Ursula
Nichols and several .others. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Jones contributed 500 to carry on 18th amend
ment work, and thus effectively represented
the women of his state. We could not have
carried on the work without his help. New
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Mary A. Powers Til
10th amendment petitions. New Jersey-Del-
| eSate Elizabeth Cady Stanton: many letters.
and, and large petitions NeW York-DeIegatess,
lie Deyereaux Blake. MacDoren S. Shepherd.
and others. Letters and immense petitions
from Mary F.; Hughes, Emily Howland and
| others. New York sends more than thou
sand names from 10 cities. Ohio-Delegate.
| Eliza Archaed Conner Letters from Rich
ard Mott, Rosa S. Sesnr, and more than 1000
names to petitions Ore,gon-peIegate Mary
and many others, and 800 names. PennSyl-
naniamDeegate van ;rol Isresa Juan LeYis and let
others, and state sends large petitions. South
! Carolina sends petition. Rhode Islant-DeL
| egate. Catharine Cornell Knowles. Virginia
ltah, Wisconsin, Vermont all represented.
TO.day's Session.
| AT 1890 O'Clock this morning the convention
| was called to order by the president, who in
! yited those present who We're prepared to take
| the opposite side of the question to come for
| ward and do so. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
! read
THE RESOLUTIONS.
| which sci lofln, nfSt the duty OF the national
! government in maintaining the equal rights
! by all its citizens, without regard to sex: next
| the Injustice Of remanding women from q
! hearing before the highest tribunal of the ma
tlOn TO state legislation next, the right of the
! educated. tax paying women OF the nation to
! have precedence over the Chinese and Indians
| in reference to Congressional action on their
! civil and political status: next, a condemna-
! tion of the proposed sixteenth amendment
| which introduces Il Sectarian idea of God into
! the constitution: ncXt, the injustice of taxing
the property of widows and SpinsterS to its full
value While the clergy are largely EXEMPT last
! ly, the proposition that education should be
| made compulsory, and that after 1885 there
| should be an educational qualification to the
| right of suffrage.
WHOM MRS. STANTON HOLDS RESPONSIBLE FOR
UUTiAGES ON WOMEN.
Mrs. Stanton said that she held the clergy
! the judges of our courts, and Senators and
| Representatives in Congress responsible for
! all the terrible OutrageS committed on women
! throughout all sections of the country because
| they denied women a participation in the GOV.
| efnment, whereby they might better be able to
| protect themselves. She thought all nations
| should be willing to have their women lifted
| up She related the circumstance of a woman
missionary being refused the privilege of ad-
| dressing a synod. She believed that where
| churches did not give women full and equal
! rights with men, women ought to withdraw
! nom them, and not be merely used to bIlv the
carpets. and make the bishops Surplices and