Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-12
MRS. S|ANION|S 5 IDEAS
F Gus Equal Rights Advocate
5 axes Strong Plea for Ed.
ucated Suffrage.
s
5 er Paper Read Before the In.
, ternational Woman's Sui
frage Convention.
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/ Washington, Feb. PA strong plea
for educated suffrage was made in an
address prepared by Mrs. Elizabeth
lCady Stanton. Owing to her inability
to be present it was read by Rev. Olym-
pia Brown, of Wisconsin. Mrs. Stanton
| is the only living woman who signed
the call for the first women's rights
convention held in the world. This con-
vention was held at Seneca Falls, N. Y.
| in July, 1S4S. She and Miss Susan B.
Anthony have battled together for
womens rights for the past fifty years.
Mrs. Brown, who read the address, is
the first woman in the United States to
be ordained by regularly constituted
ecclesiastical body. Mrs. Stanton's pa
| per in part was as follows:
while we should not allow our coun-
| try to be dumping ground for the ref
! use population of the old world, we
should welcome all hardy, commons.
sense laborers here. One demand I
would make for this class is that they
should not become part of our ruling
power until they can read and write the
/ English language intelligently and un-
derstand the principles of republican
government This is the only reStrtct-
i've legislation we need to protect our-
selves against foreign domination. With
free schools and compulsory education.
no one has an excuse for not UNDER
standing the language of the country.
Great political parties fear to propose
this measure lest 1t should insure their
defeat. The republic is based on the
theory of universal suffrage, in which
! a large class of educated women, repre-
senting the virtue. intelligence and
wealth of the nation, are disfranchised.
| is anomaly on the government. and
especially when all men, foreign and
native, ignorant and educated, black
and white. vicious and virtuous, by
their votes decide the rights and duties
of this superior class. AS the women
have no voice In the laws under which
they live. they surely have the right to
demand that their rulers, foreign and
native, shall be able to read and write
English. Popular objection to women
Isuffrage is that 1t would double the ig-
norant vote. A patent answer to this
is abolish the ignorant vote. Our legis-
lators have this power in their own
hands. There have been various re-
strictions in the past for men. We are
willing to abide by the same for wom-
en-, provided the insurmountable quail
fication of sex be forever removed"
Washington, Feb. 12.-The executive
committee of the International Wom-
ans Suffrage convention, which meets
here today, held session preliminary
to the opening of the convention to
consider the plan of organization and
other questions of Importance. The
committee decided to admit to aux
Hilary membership friends of the Equal
Rights Association. Following the
meeting of the executive committee the
delegates from foreign countries gath
cred in conference for the purpose OF
considering the question of the form
alton of an International Woman's
Suffrage Association. Miss Susan B.
Anthony was chosen president. 1t was
agreed each country should have four
representatives at the international
conference.