Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-01
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AT YOUR GROCER S
MEMORIAL.
To the National Presidential Con-
ventiOns of 1900.

To the National Presidential Con-
ventiOns of 1900.
The National Suffrage Association, in
it's memorial to the National Presiden-
tial Conventions, makes the following
plea for the recognition of woman's
right to the ballot as citizen of the
United States:
THE chief contribution to human
liberty made by the United States is the
esta blishment of the right of personal
representation in government. In
other countries suffrage has often been
called "the vested right of property"
and as such has been extended to wo-
men the same as to men. Our country
has come at length to recognize the
principle that the elective franchise is
inherent in the individual and not in
his property, and this principle has be-
come the cornerstone of our republic.
The women of the United States are
now the only disfranchised class, an.
sex is the one remaining disqualified
ton. A man may be idle, corrupt, vic
ious, utterly without a single quality
necessary for purity and stability of
government, but through the exercise
of the suffrage he is vital factor. A
woman may be educated, industrious,
moral and law-abiding, possessed of
every quality needed in a pure and
stable government, but, deprived of
that influence which is exerted through
the ballet, she is not factor in af
fairs of State. Who will claim that our
government is purer, wiser, stronger
and more lasting by the rigid exclusion
of what men themselves call "the bet
ter half of the people?
in the division of the worlds labor
an equal share falls to woman. AS pro-
perty holder and wage earned her ma
terial stake in the government is equal
to that of man. AS wife, as mother,
as individual, her moral stake is GER
tainly as great as his. The perpetuity
of the republic depends equally upon
the careful performance of the duties of
both. One is just as necessary as the
other to the growth and prosperity of
the country. All of these propositions
are self-evident, but they are wholly
foreign 10 the question at issue. The
right of an individual to a vote is not
foun ed upon the value of his stake In
government, upon his moral character,
his business ability or his physical
strength, but simply and solely upon
that guarantee of personal representa-
ton which is the essence Of a true re-
public, true democracy.
1.-THE literal definition of these two
terms is, State in which the fovereign
power resides in the whole body of the
people and is exercised by representa-
tiyes elected by them By the Declar-
alton of independence, by the rules of
equity, by the laws of justice, women
euqally with men are entitled to exer-
else this sovereign power, through the
franchise, the only legal means provid-
ed. But whatever may be regarded as
the correct basis of age-character
education, property, or the inherent
right of the person who Is subject to
law and taxation-women possess all
the qualifications required of men.
AT this dawn of a new century are
not the sons of the Revolutionary
Fathers sufficiently progressive to re-
move the barriers which for more than
hundred years have prevented women
from exercising this citazen's right?'
This memorial is signed by Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony,
honorary presidents. and by all the or
fcers of the National Suffrage Asso-
cIAeion. JESSIE G.. MANLEY.