The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-18
INTERNATIONAL WoAfAN's
 SUFFRAGE CONFIRMING,

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, President NAti0hhl American Woman Suffrage AAI sociation, who has recently visited Mont gofflefy and lectured on W0f44ahs Ent ffafichisement. writes of the Interha- tional Woman Suffrage Conference to be held in Washington in Febfuary.
 The letter ib as follows:
 The National Woman suFfrage AssocIA- lion has extended an invitation to the woman sufffagistS of the world to meet ln washington D. C., Feb. 12th to 18th, inclusive, Where, in connection with It's annual meeting. an international woman suffrage conference viii be held Four teen great nations of the world now have either well-defned woman suffrage raoveA ments or well organized woman suffrage associations. and these have been all in- Eited to cooperate in the international meeting. Seven of these England, Can ada, Australia, India, Russia. Germany and Sweden. have promised to send deie- gates, and our invitation is awaiting ac- ton at the regular meeting of offciai boards In Norway. France and Holland.
 The civilized nations or the world are slowly but steadily acknowledging the benefits and the justice Of self-governI hasfat. The suffrage has been widely ex- tended in All, within the last fifty years, tilatil In the most of them there Is either universal suffrage for men or suffrage with but limited restrictions All civil. iAed nations have likewise Kept 6ace with the United States and England in the agitation which has insisted that the fundamental principle of self-govern- msnt, Taxation without representation. is tyranny" and 'qovernments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed" logically apply to women as well as to men, and there are now few EarSpsAn nations in which wonen do not enjoy some form of suffrage. In Belgium. one of these, there is an energetic woftian n suffrage movement, and In another. Hol- lana. there is a woman suffrage organi- sstaon. which will doubtless be represent cd tn the international conference.
 TRe representative of each nation will b3Asent a report, setting forth clearly the eaneational, legal. industrial, social, re- llgious and political status of it's own tvomen. This great meeting will Gnques- tionaBIy stand as n significant. historical mile-poet In the progress of the world.
 The conference will be opened on Feb fuary l2th with an "Evening with Afneri- can Pioneers" Elizabeth Cady stanton, Susan B, Anthony, Mary A. 1Avermore. gaIia ward Howe, Isabella Beecher Hooker and Carolina Hallowell Miller. six octogenarians. the value of whose ser- vices In the emancipation of women from oid.tims laws and customs are beyoRS computation. have promised to speak. The pioneer suffragigts of each State will be invited to be present and to sit upon the platform.
 An evening with the New Woman will follow on February 18th, and women who have reaped the benefits of liberal oppor- tunities. secured for them by the pion- eers, will i'll the program The repreBen- tatives of the college. the professions. the club and the works of philanthropy. will demonstrate that the new woman Is a helpful factor in the world.
 An evening with the New Man, for the