Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-16

pleasant speech of welcome in which he
assured the members of the association of
his hearty sympathy in support of their
cause. Mr.. Ross said the Commissioners
mad asked Congress to authorize a legisla-
tive increase in the number Of trustees for
the pubic schools of this District so that
some or them could be composed Of the
mothers of the children over which the
trustees had supervision. He rendered to
the convention the good will of the District
or Columbia and hoped its sessions would
De productive of good results.
Inc presidents address was then deliver
Gu py MISS anthony. 1t was brief. inter-
estins and critical review of the cause Of
woman suffrage, with frequent illusions to
.Hs actlon or the courts in their decisions
aHecting the laws passed by the states for
the enfranchisement of woman
senator Teller of Colorado smoke briefly
on the woman suffrage question, paving
particular attention to the condition of af.
AIRS as they exist ard had existed in Colo
RADIO and adjacent states He oad long
ago reached the conclusion he said thar
an Intelligent suffrage was the safeguard
OF the republic 1t did not take him long To
decide that any system which excluded half
the intelligent people from the right of
franchise could not be calculated to be
for the best interests of the whole people
Is 1t undignified, he asked, for men to vote
ana II men grow better when suffrage is
given them, why should not women also?
Henry B. Blackwell of Massachusetts
next spoke on the subject of Colorado ard
the work done there for the advancement
on woman suffrage In 1892 he said. the
legislature enacted a woman suffrage law
10 De voted upon in 1898 1t was heartily
supported by the trades unions and Knights
OF Labor, by the populists and republicans
as parties and by many individual demo-
Gratis. The law was ratified by $500 major
lily. Colorado now stood side by side with
wyoming, with women on perfect political
equality with men.
Chn Of
briefly addressed the convention and as
serted that the men of Colorado had not
divided their power by giving enfranchise-
ment to women, but had thereby doubled
that power.
Senator Carey of Wyoming.
Miss Anthony then introduced Senator
Carey of Wyoming. who made an eloauent
address, In the beginning of his speech he
paid tribute to the life and labors of the
president Of the association who he said,
had spent her youth and is now devoting
the energies of her mature life to the ac-
compishment of a noble purpose. Last
night" he continued, "they congratulated
her and her army of associates on the new
victory, the most marked of all. They sa-
iuted two stars on the flag of our common
country, symbolical of the political equal
ity of woman with man. The states indi-
Gated will not turn back Miss Anthony's
name is as Intellectually written on the
pages of our country's history as that of
any other great reformer. History gives
one woman much of the credit for the in
au2uratl ton or the Columbian period; yet we
doubt not, If the true history had been re-
corded in each decade, the name of some
woman would appear in each, who in her
contribution to the world. did quite much
for it's progress as the noble Isabella.
To Colorado is due the honorable dis
tinction that cannot be awarded, up to
this time. to any other state in the Union
of granting to the women of the state by
direct vote composed exclusively of male
electors, their full political rights. That
this should have been done in Colorado Is
the highest compliment that could be paid
to Wyoming, the first territory and state
to grant to woman the full rights of suf-
fraGe. Wyoming and Colorado have a COM
mon boundary line extending about four
hundred miles. In Colorado II was not an
instantaneous conversion, announced with
brass bands and parallels, but decision
arrived at after long and mature delbera-
ton. Her action is sure to exert a mark
ed influence upon neighboring states and
territories. Ii Utah should be admitted as
a state at this session of Congress, there
is but little doubt TINT her constitution
would clothe women with the same politi-
cal rights that are now enjoyed by the wo-
men of Wyoming and Colorado. The ques-
ton must soon be considered in the states
of Kansas. Nebraska and the Dakotas. and
it is my deliberate opinion that it will not
be many years before woman suffrage will
of the transMlssourl country"
Senator Carey said that he desired to
correct a common error in the impression
that the women of Wyoming do not vote
for presidential electors. He stated that
they do not only vote for presidential cleo
tors, but for all federal state, county, num-
icipai and school officers. and the same will
row be true of Colorado also. Colorado
and Wyoming" said the Senator. have
Incorporated the doctr of political rights
of both sexes. 1t Is their organic law. be-
cause 1t is just TO woman, ar1 i. is best
for man. A principle so true that the time
Is near at hand when no man will have
the courage to deny it."
Mrs. Johns Paper.
A paper having for its subject Our Stars
of 1894: Kansas and New York" was read
by Mrs. Laura NJ. Johns of Kansas. and
another on the same subject. by Mrs. Jean
Brooks Greenleaf of Rochester y. Y. Pres
ident of the New York State Society read
a paper having for its subject, The Com
ing Star" She hailed the rising star, re-
ferring to New York state, because she
realized. she said, that woman suffrage
there would lift the mass of womanhood
from a lower to a higher plane. She re-
joiced because it would give to the mother
a more exalted place the wife a more self
respecting position, and throw about the
sisters and daughters an arm of defense
against the world which they do not now
enjoy. The way up the incline of progress
sive political emancipation IN New York
state had been slow, but sure. With the
ballot in our hands. she continued, think
you that women who have been pleading
for years for every moral reform that has
ever been brought about will not win by
right that for which they have striven with
tears? I am glad of this, added response
bility that will be laid upon us. for with