Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
PROFESSOR CALKINS: I wish to indicate this evening the definite
form in which I think the gratitude of all college women might be
expressed to Miss Anthony and to the other leaders of the equal
suffrage movement for their service to the cause of women's
education. In other words, I wish to ask what have these veteran
equal suffrage leaders a right to expect from university and
college students, and in particular from the students and
graduates of our women's colleges?... Equal suffragists, if I may
serve as interpreter, demand just this, that women trained to
scientific method shall make equal suffrage an object of
scientific analysis and logic and ask of college women that they
cease being ignorant or indifferent on the question; that they
adopt, if not an attitude of active leadership or of loyal
support, at least a position of reasoned opposition or of
intelligent hesitation between opposing arguments. To ask less
than this really is an insult to a thinking person, man or
woman.... The student trained to reach decisions in the light of
logic and of history will be disposed to recognize that, in a
democratic country governed as this is by the suffrage of its
citizens and given over as this is to the principle and practice
of educating women, a distinction based on difference of sex is
artificial and illogical, and thus suspicious.... For myself, I
believe that the probabilities favor woman suffrage.
MRS. MOORE: The women of today may well feel that it is Miss
Anthony who has made life possible to them; she has trodden the
rough paths and by unwearied devotion has opened to them the
professions and higher applied industries. Through her life's
work they enjoy a hundred privileges denied them fifty years ago;
from her devotion has grown a new order; her hand has helped to
open every line of business to women. She has spoken at times to
thousands of girls on the public duties of women.... Her life
story must epitomize the victorious struggle of women for larger
intellectual freedom in the last century.... The world does move.
Those who are aware of the great and beneficent changes made in
the laws relating to the rights of property, in the civil and
industrial laws pertaining to women and children, may estimate
the good accomplished by these pioneers.
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