Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-20
CALL IS ISIS u E D.
NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN
SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION TO
MEET AT PORTLAND, ORE.
Interesting Program Arranged For
Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting to
be Held From June % to July s.
Prominent Workers to Speak.


ton have received copies of the official
vention of the National American Wo-
man Suffrage association, which will
be held in the First Congregational
church at Portland, Ore, June % to
July S. A splendid program has been
arranged and 1t is expected that this
city will be represented at the meet
ing.
Addresses of welcome will be made
by Governor Chamberlain, Mayor Will
1iams, Jefferson Myers, Abigail Scott
Duniway. There will be addresses BY
the state presidents. Susan B. Ans
thony, Gail Laughlin, Mary M.
Chase, Frances Griffin, Florence Kel-
ley, Laura A. Gregg and other noted
woman suffragists.
The Official Call.
The call for the convention Is Jas
follows:
The. thirty-seventh annual conven-
ton of the National American Woman
Suffrage association will be held in
the First Congregational church, Port
land, Oregon, June % to July S, inclu-
sive.
A cordial invitation is extended to
all who believe in the inalienable right
of women to self-government and also
to those not yet in sympathy with the
purposes of this association
A government by men and women
not by women alone, not by men alone,
but government of men and women,
by men and women, for men and wo-
men-this is the aim and ideal of our
association
One hundred years ago Oregon was
an lntrodden wilderness. The trans
formation of the primeval territory
into prosperous communities, enjoying
the highest degree of civilization, could
not have been accomplished without
the work of women. No restriction
should be placed upon energies and
abilities SO potent for good. The ex-
tension of the. right of suffrage would
remove the handicap from the efforts
of women and give them an opportu-
nifty to work for the welfare of the
state
We do not claim that women's voice
in the government would at once
sound the death knell to all social and
political evils. But we do believe that
a government representing the inter-
ests and the beliefs of women and
men would prove itself, and is proving
itself, where 1t now exists, to be a
better government than one which
represents the interests and beliefs of
men alone.
The movement for, the enfranchise-
ment of women is based upon the I'M
changing and Interchangeable principles
of human liberty, in accordance with
which successive classes of men have
won the right of government.
On such a foundation ultimate vic
tory is assured-and, in truth. is con-
coded, even by those who oppose. The
Gay is ever drawing nearer when the
nation will apply to women the prin-
ciples which are the very foundations
of its existence; when, on every cleo
ton day there will be reaffirmed the
immortal truths of our declaration of
American independence. Then will
this indeed be just government, ode
irving its powers from the consent of
the governed"
Susan B. Anthony,
Honorary President.
Rev. Anna Howard Shaw,
President.
Carrie Chapman Gait,
Vice President.
Alice Stone Blackwell,
Recording Secretary
Kate M. Gordon,
Corresponding Secretary.
Harriet Taylor Upton.
Treasurer.
Laura Clay,
Cora Smith Eaton, Auditors.