Book/Printed Material Report of hearing before the Committee on Woman Suffrage. February 15, 1898 General Collections copy
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Image 1 of General Collections copy REPORT OF HEARING 201 BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE. In House FEBRUARY 15, 1898. 201 FEBRUARY 26, 1898.— Resolved, That there be printed for the use of the Senate 5,000 copies…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
- Date: 1898
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Image 2 of General Collections copy JK1888 1898a- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
- Date: 1898
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Image 3 of General Collections copy 3 FEMALE SUFFRAGE. -THE NATURE OF A REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT.By WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, of Massachusetts. The advocates of complete enfranchisement of women base their demand upon the principles underlying all suffrage,…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
- Date: 1898
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Image 4 of General Collections copy 4 Her triumph is as sure as theirs. The social and industrial changes in all countries of constitutional government have revolutionized her condition. Fifty years ago the avenues of employment open to…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
- Date: 1898
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Image 5 of General Collections copy 5 In the discussion of the rights of labor, the inadequacy of wages, the abuses of the factory system, the management of schools, of reformatory and penal institutions, the sanitary arrangements of…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
- Date: 1898
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Image 6 of General Collections copy 6 May I ask you to consider with me who are using this vast educational system, conceived by lofty statesmanship, developed under the influence of an exalted patriotism, and maintained at such…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
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Image 7 of General Collections copy 7 Philanthropy profits by their culture; the church is supported, not alone by their devotion, but by their intelligent and public-spirited service; charity would languish without them. The greatest social reforms of…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
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Image 8 of General Collections copy 8 this: Does the passage of the abstract political consciousness of a given people (that in which all agree women have an important part) into the concrete and mechanical expression of government…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
- Date: 1898
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Image 9 of General Collections copy 9 This brings us to the discussion of the second question outlined at the beginning, viz, What is the distinctive and general quality of woman's moral development? The division between the masculine…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
- Date: 1898
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Image 10 of General Collections copy 10 based more upon humanity than upon differences in circumstances surrounding human beings, can not afford to lose from its electorate any distinctive ethical, quality which it needs in its magistracy or…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
- Date: 1898
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Image 11 of General Collections copy 11 woman suffragists are confident that this objection can not be maintained on any grounds of justice or true expediency. It is by no means self-evident that women are naturally unfitted for…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
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Image 12 of General Collections copy 12 In this fine conception of government there is not only room for women to take part, but it can not be realized without help from them. Men alone possess only a…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
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Image 13 of General Collections copy 13 The right to vote has always been considered more sacred than the right to be elected to office, and has consequently been more safe-guarded and more cautiously conferred. Therefore, to urge…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
- Date: 1898
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Image 14 of General Collections copy 14 gainful pursuits in largely increased proportion, and although we can not claim for them any great advance in efficiency, there has been a marked change in the estimate of our position…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
- Date: 1898
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Image 15 of General Collections copy 15 do certain kinds of work, contribute to determine the price of that work, and no disfranchised class of workers can permanently hold its own in competition with enfranchised rivals. But this…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
- Date: 1898
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Image 16 of General Collections copy 16 The courts in some of the States, notably in Illinois, are taking the position that women can not be treated as a class apart and legislated for by themselves, as has…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
- Date: 1898
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Image 17 of General Collections copy 17 land in severalty to the Indian, supplies him with tools and rations, puts a ballot in his hand, and then says to the American woman who purchases with the American man…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
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Image 18 of General Collections copy 18 ARE WOMEN REPRESENTED IN OUR GOVERNMENT? By ELIZABETH BURRILL CURTIS, of New York. “Taxation without representation is tyranny” was one of the slogans of liberty in this country one hundred and…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
- Date: 1898
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Image 19 of General Collections copy 19 from pure and disinterested motives, and who try their best to bring about a purer and better form of government, but these are inevitably few and far between and presumably will…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
- Date: 1898
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Image 20 of General Collections copy 20 their sex in public work are almost without exception happy wives and mothers. But fortunately this is no longer a question of theory. We appeal to the experience of the four…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
- Date: 1898
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Image 21 of General Collections copy 21 SIGNIFICANCE AND HISTORY OF THE BALLOT. By ELIZABETH CADY STANTON. Since our demand for the right of suffrage under the Fourteenth amendment, which was denied by Congress and the courts, the…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
- Date: 1898
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Image 22 of General Collections copy 22 suffrage is a question of such vital consequence that it should be exhaustively discussed by the leaders of thought among our people. The great political parties fear to propose this measure…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
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Image 23 of General Collections copy 23 and native, shall be able to read and write the English language. As it would take the ordinary immigrant at least five years to learn our language, we should be sure…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
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Image 24 of General Collections copy 24 of their rulers, they exalted the idea of republican government and universal suffrage with this magnificent monument—the royal lion guarding the sacred treasures within the electoral urn. As I turned away…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Shaw, Anna Howard - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate
- Date: 1898
About this Item
Title
- Report of hearing before the Committee on Woman Suffrage. February 15, 1898
Names
- United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage
- Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919, former owner
- United States. Congress 1897-1898). Senate
- National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Washington : Government Printing Office, 1898.
Headings
- - Women--Suffrage--United States
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- - LAC tnb 2022-08-15 no edits (1 card)
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Medium
- 24 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- JK1888 1898a
- JK1881 .N357 sec. I, no. 99, #16 [No. 16] in a vol. with binder's title: Senator Sumner's 1869 and reports and hearings to 1902. Binding: inscribed by Susan B. Anthony. From the library of Anna H. Shaw. NAWSA bookplate. Gift of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Nov. 1, 1938.
- JK1888 1848 no. 17
- JK1888 1863 no. 31
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- 07039905
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