Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
Women are admitted to the postal service on equal salaries with
men. In the railway service, which is controlled by the
Government, women have ever since 1860 been employed in the
controlling office and ticket department and in the telegraph and
telephone service, which are owned by the Government. In 1809
women were given the rights of inheritance and in the same year
equal matrimonial rights. The colleges and universities are open
to them and they receive degrees the same as men. All professions
are open except the clerical. Women teachers are pensioned
equally with men. Tax paying women have voted in church matters
since 1736. Every woman is taxed in the Lutheran Church in
America but has no vote and the women blame the Americans because
the clergy educated here imbibed the false spirit of liberty and
justice.
You can not trust the ballot into the hands of women teachers in
the public schools but you give it to men who can not read or
write. You can not trust the ballot to women who are controlling
millions of money and helping support the country but you give it
to loafers and vagabonds who know nothing, have nothing and
represent nothing. You can not trust the ballot in the hands of
women who are the wives and daughters of your heroes but you give
it to those who are willing to sell it for a glass of beer and
you trust it in the hands of anarchists. Oh, men, let justice
speak and may the public weal demand that this disfranchisement
of the noble American women shall be stopped.
Mrs. Catt then introduced to the committee Miss Isabel Campbell,
daughter of former Governor Campbell of Wyoming, who in 1869 signed
the bill which enfranchised the women of the Territory; Prof.
Theodosia Ammons of the Colorado University of Agriculture and Mrs.
Ida M. Weaver, a resident of Idaho. Each gave a comprehensive report
of the practical working of woman suffrage in her State; the large
proportion of women who voted; their appointment on boards and
election to offices; the result in improved polling places, better
candidates and cleaner politics; higher pay for working women; the
advantages to the community; the comradeship between men and women and
the general satisfaction of the people with the experiment. Their
reports as a whole offered unimpeachable testimony in favor of the
enfranchisement of women.
Mrs. Florence Fenwick Miller in her address said:
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