Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-11

Howard Shaw, followed by singing by the
convention led by Miss Eta v. Maddox
of Maryland.
The armory was well filled with an in
terested audience by the time the conven-
ton had finished the preliminaries and was
ready to get down to business. Delegates
from thirty states were present to draw
for their seats in convention, and the yell
low banners gave the hall a very pretty
appearance.
The report of headquarters was among
the first presented. and wwas given by
Miss Elizabeth ]. Hauser. office secretary
of national Headquarters. Miss HauSer
reported that the headquarters of the ma
tional association were moved from New
York to Warren Ohio, May 1.
The distribution of literature has been an
important department of the work, Miss
Hauser said. She reported that calls had
come to the National American Suffrage
Association from all parts of the United
States, and from England, Australia, HOl-
land and Germany, and in supplying these
demands upward of $1,000 pieces have been
circulated, she declared. She also said that
10000 of the blue suffrage stamps had been
sent out and great quantities of printed
material had been furnished many fore gn
countries. The National Suffrage Associa-
ton has adopted plan of observing the
birthday anniversary of several of their
noted women, and Miss Hauser reported
that two thousand souvenirs for the Lucy
Stone birthday anniversary meetings We're
sent out and the same number for the
Eliza beth Cady Stanton birthday anniver-
sary celebration.
Progress, the organ Of the woman suf-
fragists, has been issued quarterly, accord
ing to Miss Hauser's report, the January
number being edited as well as mailed from
headquarters, at Warren, Ohio. The SUBJ
scription list has been quadrupled in less
than a year, she reported, and there was
much rejoicing at national headquarters.
A weekly letter was sent out from ma
tional headquarters to the Woman's Jour-
nal, and this letter. Miss Hauser said. had
served medium of communication be-
tween the state associations and the ma
tional organization. She reported that reso-
lutions indorsing woman suffrage had been
adopted within the year by the Interna-
tional Typographical Union, the Woman's
National Single Tax League, the American
and by multitude of state organizations
of various kinds. Some 10000 letters had
been sent out during the year.
Declaration Of Principles.
Mrs. Ida Hustled Harper, biographer Of
Miss Susan B. Anthony, and the compiler
of the last two volumes of history Of the
National American Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation, presented the new declaration OF
principles adopted In executive session last
night. The declaration is as follows:
When our forefathers gained the victory
in a seven years war to establish the prin-
ciple that representation should go hand In
hand with taxation, they marked a new
epoch in the history Of man: but though
our foremothers bore an equal part in that
long conflict, its triumph brought to them
no added rights, and through all the follow
ing century and quarter taxation without
representation has been continuously i'm
posed on women by as great tyranny as
King George exercised over the American
colonists. So long as no married woman
was permitted to own property and all
women were barred from the money making
occupations, this discrimination did not
seem so invidious; but today the situation
is without parallel. The women of the
United States now pay taxes on real and
personal estate valued at billions of dollars
In number of individual states their hold
ings amoxnt TO many millions. Everywhere
they are accommodating property. In hum
dredS of places they form one-third of the
taxpayers, with the number constantly in
creasing, and yet they are absolutely with
out representation in the affairs of the ma
ton. of the state. even of the community
in which they live and pay taxes. We enter
our protest against this injustice, and we
demand that the immortal principles estab-
lished by the war of the revolution shall be
applied equally to women and men citizens.
Demand for Wage Earners.
AS our new republic passed into higher
stage of development, the gross inequality
became apparent of giving representation
10 capltdl anu denying IL TO LABOR; therefore
the right OF suffrage was extended to the
workingman. Now we demand for the
100000 wage earning women Of our coun-
try the same protection of the ballot as is
possessed by the wage-earning men.
The founders took an even broader view
of human rights when they declared that
the government could Justly derive its
powers only from the consent OF the gov
erned and for 125 years this grand asser-
ton was regarded as corner stone of the
republic, with scarcely recognition of the
fact that one-half of the citizens were as
completely governed without their consent
as were the people of any absolute mon-
archy in existence. 1t was only when our
government was extended over alien races
in foreign countries that our people awoke
to the meaning of the principles of the Dec
laration of Independence. In response to
its provisions the Congress of the United
States FASTENED to invest with the power of
consent the men of this new territory but
committed the fragrant injustice of with
holding it from the women. We demand
that the ballot shall be extended to the
women of our foreign possessions on the
same terms as to the men. Furthermore,
We demand that the women of the United
States shall no longer suffer the degrada-
| ton of being held not SO competent 20 ex-
| ercise the suffrage as Filipino, a Ha-
waiian or Porto Rican man.
The remaining territories within thu