Woman Suffrage: Hearing Before the Committee, Feb. 18, 1902Wash., 1902 - 23 pagina's |
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Pagina 5 - During the twenty years from 1870 to 1890, divorce in the United States at large increased about three times as fast as the population. In the group of western states, omitting Wyoming, it increased nearly four times as fast as the population. In Wyoming it increased only about half as fast as the population. "An ounce of experiment is worth a ton of theory.
Pagina 4 - ... results are good. In Wyoming women have had the full ballot for nearly half a century. For the last 25 years, the advocates of equal suffrage have had a standing challenge, inviting its opponents to find, in all Wyoming, two respectable men who will assert over their own names and addresses that it has had any bad results whatever. The opponents have thus far failed to respond. Doubling the Vote. It would only double the vote without changing the result. If letting women sing in church merely...
Pagina 4 - ... and made strong speeches in favor of woman suffrage. The result of this law has been the election of several women to important municipal positions; for instance, members of the common council in the capítol, members of the board of aldermen, and at one place a woman has become chief assessor.
Pagina 1 - ... women politically with their criminals and lunatics, with their mental and moral outcasts. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, in introducing the speakers, said : "Although I have always lived in this Republic, having been a resident of four different States, a tax-payer, and able to pass every qualification, I have never been permitted to vote for the smallest thing, and yet I have the privilege of introducing to the American Congress a Russian woman who has voted in her country ever since she was twenty-one...
Pagina 8 - ... Republicans nominate a bad man and the Democrats a good one, the Republican women do not hesitate a moment to 'scratch' the bad and substitute the good. It is just so with the Democrats." Ex-Governor Hunt, of Idaho: "The woman vote has compelled not only State conventions, but more particularly county conventions, of both parties to select the cleanest and best material for public office.
Pagina 4 - This law has thoroughly changed the married woman's position in Norway. From having always been a minor the married woman has suddenly become of age. It may be of interest to you people of the United States, who can show so many tax-paying women without any right to vote...