The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-13
BY WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS TAKES A
NEW START AT WASHINGTON
CONVENTION
MRS. GAIT APPEALS TO LOGIC
Cites What She Considers Irrefat-
able Arguments in Behalf of
the Cause She Holds
So Dear
VETS RULE AT NIGHT SESSION

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12-The first in
ternational woman suffrage conference
and the bhirty-fourth annual conven-
ton of the National American Woman
Suffrage association was begun here to-
day with an unusually large number of
delega tes in attendance. The convention
was presided over by Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait, president. In her annual ad-
dress she said:
Hard upon the track of the man suf-
frage movement presses the movement
for woman suffra ge, logical step on
ward. 1t has come as inevitably and as
Raturally the flower unfolds from
the bud or the fruit develops from the
HOVER. Why should woman suffrage not
come? Men throughout the world hold
their suffrage through the guaranty of
the Two principles of liberty and for
these reasons only. One, Taxation
without representation is tyranny who
dares deny it? And are not women
taxed? The other, governments derive
their just powers from the consent OF
the governed How simple and unan-
swerable that petition Of justice! And
are not women governed?
Can Logic Fail at Last.
These aAicms lave been translated
into every tongue and thundered forth
in eloquent plea in every civilized land.
Before their logic the most cherished of
ancient prejUdiCes have yielded And
can their logic fail at last? More, the
world has put new and unansweraple
Logic IN the mouths of our advocates.
The future belongs to the book, not
the sword; it belongs to life, and not
TO death pleaded out the voice of Vic
ter Hugo. The world nodded and ex-
claimed, True, the sword is passing and
the rule Of the book is coming in Then.
we may 2sk, since woman may read the
book and write the book, why should
she have no share in the government
of which the book stands the chief pro
and support? And who can answer?
We may ask if democracy is a means
of making men strong, is there any
good reason for keeping wCmen weak,
that we should deny them the same
Chance 10 grow strCCg? These are the
arguments the world has put into our
mouths. Their logic can no more be
disputed tran car that of the multipli-
cation table. Surely the world cannot
long Withstand the force of it"
Strong Plea From Mrs. stanton.
A strong plea for educated suffrage was
made in an address prepared by Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the only living
woman who signed the call for the first
womans rights convention held in the
world This convention was hel1 at Scne-
Miss Susan B. Anthony have battled To-
gcther for woman's rights for the past ff-
ty years Mrs. Stantons paper was in part
as follows:
While we should not allow our country
to be a dumping ground for the refuse
population of the old world, We should
welcome all hardy, cOmmon-sense Labor
ers here. The one demand I would make
for this class is that they should not be-
come a part of our ruling power until
they can read and write the English IAN
guage intelligently and understand the
principles of republican government.
''With free schools and compulsory edu-
cation, no one has an excuse for not un-
derstanding the language of the country.
The great political parties fear to pro-
pose this measure lest ii should insure
their defeat.
A republic based on the theory Of uni
versal suffrage, in which a large class of
educated women, representing the virtue.
intelligence and wealth of the nation are
disfranchised. is an anomaly on the gov
ernment; and especially wlren all men,
foreign and native, ignorant and edu-
Gated, black and white, vicious and vir-
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