Evening star., 1902-02-13
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| Ito woman suffrage is that It would double
! the ignorant vote The patent answer to
this Is to abolish the ignorant vote. Our
| legislators have this power in their own
hands. There have been various restrictions
| in the past for men. We are willing to
abide by the same for women. provided
| the insurmountable qualification Of sex be
| forever removed"
Mrs. Miller's Paper.
"Why We Come Again was the title Of
| a paper prepared by Caroline Hallowell
Miller Of Maryland, read by Mrs. Harriet
| Taylor Upton, the writer being too Ill to
attend. Mrs. Upton said since she Joined
| the suffragists, twelve years ago, she had
| done everything that came along, from
shaking down the furnace fires to sing
Ing and playing the organ. She had never
been asked to play and sing the second
time. she said. She had read papers OF
short people and tall thin ones and thick.
Her audiences would now imagine her to
be TALL thin and angular Quakeress. Mrs
Upton Is not short, but she is anything but
thin and angular.
In the course Of her paper Mrs. Miller
said that while she has been requested to
deal humorously with her subject, she felt
too deeply for the suffrage movement to
lnuulSe IN any VIII. She Salu Sne uOpeU
the women would haunt both houses of
Congress until they were successful in the
project which they We're working for. She
asked the people of the United States to
light of simple justice, and stated that she
felt confident that If this We're done wo-
men would soon be given the ballot
An address by the venerable Henry B.
Blackwell of Massachusetts was one Of the
most interesting features of the evening.
I'VE elderly people, he said, "are asked
for "reminiscences as piopeer workers for
woman suffrage No one living Is a pio-
neer. Two hundred and fifty years ago
Margaret Bret of Maryland petitioned the
Legislature for the right to vote She was
the pioneer. In 11l6 all inhabitants worth
fifty pounds were made voters in New Jer-
sey, and for thirty-one years women voted
in that state.
I'm 1S47 Mrs. Lucy Stone, whose work
is well known to every woman suffragist,
began a series of addresses on the social,
legal, political and religious disabilities Of
women These lectures drew large audi
ences, and won thousands Of converts from
Maine to Missouri.
In 1856 l had the good fortune to be-
come the husband of Lucy Stone," con-
tinued Mr.. Blackwell, land for that reason
l have been Intimately connected with this
movement for more than fifty years 1t is
work that has given dignity and charm
to my active business life.
In 1860 we were working members of
the National Equal Rights Association and
in the reconstruction of the Union. Two
years later my wife addressed the legis-
1ature of New Jersey and short time
after we went to Kansas. where the Kan
sas Woman Suffrage Association was or
ganlzed In 1869 the territories Of Wyo-
ming and Utah conferred full suffrage on
women
School Suffrage in Twenty Four States.
women have today school suffrage In
tWenty-four states, municipal suffrage in
Kansas taxpayers suffrage in Montana
| New York and Louisiana. More than a
| million American citizens in four states
are living under full woman suffrage, with
elght United states senators ard nine rep
| resentatives in Congress- who number Wo-
| men among their constituencies
In conclusion, the speaker drew attention
| to the fact that these successes of the suf-
| frage work are not confined to this country.
| In Australia, Canada. New Zealand Eng
/ land, Scotland, Ireland and Wales and Nor
| way and France women are voting. The
| example set in New Jersey in 1916 is spread
| ing throughout the world he said. "Wo-
| mans equality Is fast becoming the watch
| word Of civilization"
Rev Olympia Brown Of Wisconsin dis
/ cusSed conditions Of suffrage. She said that
| the desire of human liberty did not origi-
| nate in this country, conten6ing that it ia
| one OF the first impulses Of man. She con-
! tended that this spirit of liberty is being
/ revived anew, and that the cause Of wo-
man is becoming more and more recognized
| as time passes. The speaker said that she
resented the idea that foreigners who have
| no interests at stake should be allowed to
| vote While loyal American women are de-
| prived Of the ballot. She expressed her be-
| lief that every foreigner should be made to
! speak the English language before he Is al
| lowed to vote. I'VE shall work on and on, .
| she said, "and shall not see the woman suf-
fgrage cause lost until We die In the last
ditch"
| Talk on "Chfvalrvn
| Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell Of New
York was the last speaker. The subject of
| her address was "Chivary"
1t had little to do with the question of
suffrage, but was a bright talk on the
evolution Of customs that lead at last to
| universal suffrage
William Bright Of Wyoming was present
| and briefly sketched the story of how he
| came to introduce the bill into the Wyo-
| ming legislature, which became law, Civ
! ing women of that state the full ballot
| The music of the evening, Battle Hymn
of the Republic" and "Old Lang Syne," was
led by John Hutchinson and his grand
daughter. pretty little incident. oc
CURED at closing, when Mr. Hutchinson.
Miss Thomas Of Maine and the grand
daughter sang together one of the old-time
| melodies, beginning Where are the friends
that to me were SO dear?'
With the New Woman.
| Inc program LOT this evening is entitled
AN Evening with the New Woman
1.-THE more freedom humanity enjoys. the
keener grows the appetite for freedom
Claviere, and is as follows:
A Captivating Alliance, Mrs. Helen Ade-
! laide Shaw, Boston; Present OPPORTUNITIES
| for Women in Politics, Miss Margaret
| Haley, Chicago: violin solo, Miss Bertha
| Lucas: the Lady and the Quill, Mrs. Eliza
beth Gilmer dorothy Dix. New Orleans:
Legende,' Weiniawski, Miss Bertha In,
cas-; Pills In Politics DR.. Cora Smith Ea-
ton, Minneapolis; From Statues to Statutes
Miss Gail Laughin, New York; the Need of
the Hour, Rev. Ida c. Hultin Boston
State presidents or proxies have been in
| vited to sit upon the platform.
Convention Notes.
Mrs. Wesley G. Smith of Maine arrived
In W ashington Tuesday night to attend the
| convention.
| Miss Anthony was there, and SO was the
| beautiful crimson silk shawl which for n
half century has been, like the white
| plume Of Navarro, the signal flag Of the
| suffragsts
| Madame Friedland in her neat response to