The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-13
woman's -sunrasis.s.

OulluS NAC pdEb WCCA buC tCutA ILL
nual meeting of the American Women's
Suffrage Association was held at Gin
persons, advocates of the cause, were
c%innati. The following well-known pre-
sent: President of the association, Mrs.
Rebecca N. Hazard, of st, Louis; Vice
President, Mrs. V. Longley, of Cincin-
natl; Chairman, Mrs. Lucy Stone, of
Boston; and delegates, Miss Matilda
Hindman, of Pennsylvania; Miss A. E.
Dickinson, of ST. Louis; also, upon the
platform were tie Rev4. G. w. Wendte
and LIE, of Cincinnati. Rev.
Wendte made the address of well
come, stating hat this was the
first time he had ever come forward
and acknowledge the "faith that was in
him." Mrs. Hazard resp nded, in
which she took occasion to say hat all
enduring principles seemed slow to
move forward and required time to be.
come thoroughly implanted in the conf
dence of the masses. Recognizing as vital
doctrines the equality of the race, and
the value of the family as the political
unit, we find the woman deprived of any
fair expression in the conduct of the
Government. As a result we have cor
ruption in high places, frand, public
distrust and their host of accompanying
evils. We find forces at work which
threaten the security of our homes, the
manhood of our sens. the purity of our
daughters; in a word, the whole social
structure Of society. Rejecting on
these things, we begin to understand the
meaning of the ballot for woman Scru-
tinizing closely, we find that it means
justice, integrity, peace, purify, temper
ance, sweeter manners and wiser laws.
Mrs. Hazard spoke at some length,
and was followed in a brilliant effort
by Mrs. Stone. Mrs. Stone said:
"Woman's special work as woman, as
the mother and the housekeeper, should
command an equal commercial value
with mans special work as b~readearner.
Mans work, IN amassing riches-ships
at sea, warehouses, tre%asure--is liable to
total destruction any dav. The woman's
work lives in her. child. The woman
who reaEs for her children should not
go begging for a penny and have il
thought her work amounted to nothing.
An incident was thatof a young man who
married and settled with his wife on
one of the hill suburbs of Cincinnati.
For the first months married life was
all happiness; then a change and cold
mes, came. He asked an explanation,
and she told him how as a teacher be-
fore marriage she had her independent
earnings; now she had to ask for money,
and when last she had done so he asked
her what she wanted to do with it?
She told him to buy shoe-laces and he
gave her precisely six cents! "And
is that aII?" the husband inquired,
relieved. But to her it was enough
to make life miserable. Being a sensi-
BILE man he saw his error and arranged
proper divisions; that the woman's
suffrage movement means equal indus
tries, equal wages for equal work. 1t
also means equal education" and SO on.
And then Rev. Sarah Perkins, of
Vermont said that if man goes wrong
there are all sorts of excuses for him,
but for woman there was none. She
was also taxed without representation.
She is expected to struggle under a bur-
den which no man would carry,
The convention continued for two
days. The work in the different States
was presented in the shape of reports
and compared with a view to advancing
it, if possible, having in addition the
experience of the past to work upon.
The election of officers for the follow
ing year was made with Henry B. Black
well, of Boston, as President. The con-
vention will meet again in December of
1880, in Washington.