Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-02-18

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MISS SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
by Miss Laura De Merritte. Many
floral tributes were also received by
her.
The following message of greeting
from the foreign delegates was re-
ceived by her and read from the plat
form: 4FE'
1--WE. the undersigned foreign delegates
to the first international woman suffrage
conference. gladly take the opportunity of
your eighty-second birthday to express to
you our love and reverence, our gratitude
for your lifelong work for women and our
rejoicing that you have lived to see such
great steps onward made by the world at
large in the direction in which you led at
first under such prejudice. Praying that
you may enjoy years of health, cheered by
ever-fresh advance, we remain your loving
friends,
"FLoRENcE FENw10K MILLER. Eng
land;
SOFIA LEvoRNA FR1EDLANp. Rus
ecARoL1NA HOLMAN HU1DoBRo.
"GUDRUM DREwsEN, Norway;
vida GOLDSTEIN, Australia;
"ERNA EWALD, Sweden:
"ANToNETTE STOLE. Germany"
In responding to the address of
greeting of the delegates Miss
Anthony, with tears in her eyes, re-
ferred to her SO years of work in the
cause of woman suffrage, saying She
had consecrated her life to it. She
was unable to proceed further on ac-
count of emotion.
Offering In Honor of Miss Anthony
Mrs. Gait then announced that it had
been the intention to give Miss An
thony a birthday present, but lowing
her aversion to attentions of this kind,
she said, it was proposed to recog-
nize her birthday by having the mem
bers pledge the sum of $4,000 for car
rying on the campaign of woman suf-
frage. The delegates responded with
surprising alacrity, and the announce
,ment that. IS, 102 had been subscribed
was greeted with vociferous applause.
Revolutions Adopted.
The report of the comittee on reso-
lutions was then read. Their recon.
mendations were as follows:
1.-THE National Woman Suffrage associa-
ton, at Its first meeting of the twentieth
century in the capital city of the United
States. reaffirms the principles of the
declaration of independence. and calls for
the application Of those principles in the
case of women who are taxed without rep
resentation and governed without consent
e. We rejoice in the granting of suffrage
during the past year to 10000 women of
the state of New York on questions Of taxa
ton and in the extension of municipal suf-
frage to the tax-paying women of Norway.
We recommend that the women taxpayers
Of every state appeal to their legislators
for suffrage in their own behalf.
%. We rejoice in the granting of equal
guardianship and control OF minor children
to both parents in Connecticut; the matter
OF married womens' property rights in a
number of states; in the success of the
Methodist women in securing the right to
be members of the general conference; In
the victory of the Chicago women teach-
ere over the trusts and corporations Of I'LL
nois which have evaded taxation.
~ We protest against the government
regulation of vice in our new possessions
and we urge President Roosevelt, who has
been for years an outspoken opponent of
such regula TONS to put an end to it.
70. It is the sense. of this convention that
no sex distinctions should be made In re-
gard to franchise in our new possessions.
"6. We point with satisfaction to our four
equal suffrage states containing more than
a million American citizens, with eight
United States senators and nine congress-
men who represent constituencies Of wom-
en-. The beneicent experience Of SO years
in those states confirms every hope and
refutes every objection.
u. Whereas 1t Is learned that some OF
the departments OF the government are re.
fusdng to accept women who are approved
by the civil service commission and who
are by the civil service rules fairly entitled
to positions,
Therefore, Resolved that the attention
OF the civil service commissioners and all
heads OF departments be called to this un-
just discrimination.
49, We affirm that intelligent suffrage
irrespective Of sex is the watchword Of
progressive democracy and that the equal
cooperation Of women and men is essen
tial alike to happy home, refined So
ciety, successful church and republic
an state"
The resolutions were unanimously
adopted, after which the convention
took recess for luncheon,