Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-29
WoMAN SUFFRAGE CONTENTION.


the Woman's suffrage convention at Wash
ington. The convention for this year was
held last week, being in session three days
Of course, in that time, a good deal was
said, if not very much was done. The
discussions in these conventions are always
bright and interesting, and much truth told.
While discussing resolution relating to
civil service competitive examinations,
pointed coment was made on the discrim-
ination in the governmental departments
against women, many of whom at 5000 per
year do more and better work then men
who are paid twice that per year. Miss
Anthony cited the fact that the men clerks
were given thirty days recreation each
year, and fourteen to twenty days to go
home and vote. She had addressed letter
to the chiefs of departments asking hoh-
day for the lady clerks during the sitting
of the convention. Only one had taken
any notice of the request; Secretary
Folger wrote, ''the condition of the public
business prevents me from acceding to
your request" This furnished a text for
Mrs. Lillian Devereaux Blake, Miss Sewall
and other speakers, who pointed out The
meg uality which was made prominent by
this policy.
| The resolution committee touched upon
all possible subjects, one of the series
being a resolution setting forth that pay
ing DR.. Susan A. Edison for her services as
attendant physician to President Garfield,
$1,000 less than was paid for the same
service rendered by DR.. Boynton, a more
recent graduate of the same college from
which she received her diploma, was an IN
just discrimination on account of her sex.
This was a good point made. Miss
Edison did good service in the
case, while Boynton was a
hindrance, if anything, and it was ridicu-
lous for the congressional commission, if
they paid him at all, to pay him more
than DR.. Edison.
Mrs. Helen M. Loden, of Poughkeepsie,
N. Y, spoke of the injustice done women
in having men as presidents, professors
and teachers in female colleges, academies
and schools. Mrs. Caroline Hallowell
Miller, of Maryland, in addressing the
convention, with much earnestness, urged
the proposition that man would
rise to higher plane when
he acknowledged the equal rights of woman
before the law.
Miss Anthony read letter from Gov.
Butler, of Massachusetts, regretting that
he could not be present. but bidding them
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teenth amendment, declaring his convic-
tion that the fourteenth amendment fully
covers the rights of all persons to vote,
and that such will ultimately be the decis-
ion of the country.
Miss Stanton introduced Mrs. Jan G
Mckinney, of Iowa, as enjoying to some
extent the rights due to woman, she being
a trustee of the state insane asylum. Mrs.
Mckinney in the course of her address
said, that in her childhood she marveled
that human slavery existed, and she mar
veled now that it was necessary for the
association to urge that woman should
have the ballot. She was proud of
her state, but not of the member of con-
gress from her district, who, while he
thought that women were the nearest to
angels of any beings on earth, did not
think they ought to vote.
One of the most notable addresses made
during the session of the convention
was by Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, of Wash
ington This bright lady spoke with
piquant force, as will be seen by the fol-
lowing condensation of her remarks on
''the Acknowledgement of the Women of
Utah" She spoke first on the magnitude
of the movement which would revolution
ize the social and political status of the
country:
1t took century to shake off human slavery,
| and then it was accomplished at the point of the
bayonet, and now the argument of human rights
and privileges had been narrowed down to one
point-as to sex. Woman was amenable to law
and may be hung for treason and without ex-
pressing an opinion as to guilt innocence. She
was glad that one woman had suffered martyr
dom and demonstrated that she had the power to
conspire for the overthrow of the government
The ability of women to bear arms was not in
volyed, for that is relic of the barbarism of the
past. 1t is argued that if women vote, the col
| ored women and women of the brothels will
vote; but have we not to-day colored men, igno-
rant men, foreign men and men who hang
around whisky saloons, who outnumber the
women? They say that women would then
neglect home, and perhaps they would if they
followed the example of the pot politi-
clan and the hanger on; but
until woman forgets her maternity she will not
forget her home duties. She then sketched the
movement, referring to the arguments in their
behalf by Gen. Butler noting that twelve states
had granted school suffrage to woman, and
spoke of the Utah act, which disfranchised po-
lygamists, male and female, and disqualified
them from holding Office unjust and inquisi-
torial. The commissioners under the law did
more than confine themselves to the letter of
the law and undertook to enforce their idea of the
intent and to depose men from Office. This Ed
munds bill DISTINGUISHED the hTst wife of
Mormon, who, of all others, should have been
guiltless. Next she paid her respects to Mr..
Cassidy, of Nevada, who claims his bill is aimed
at bigamy and polygamy and not at woman suf-
| frage. Mr.. Edmunds follows with bill amend
ing his former bill, and she critics him for
using the word females by which his bill
would apply to dogs and cats. This bill he pro-
poses to apply to all the territories and he favors
| the Blackstonian idea of the oneness of husband
| and wife.
Among the closing hours of the conven-
ton a letter was read from Mrs. Caroline
A. Biggs, the editor of the English Wo-
mans RerieU, Loudon, relative to woman
suffrage in England and Scotland. Mrs.
Biggs states that recently the women in