Chapter 19

NATIONAL-AMERICAN CONVENTION OF 1899 322-348

Excellent arrangements at Grand Rapids -- Welcome from women's organizations -- Miss Anthony's response; counting negro men and refusing them representation no worse than counting all women and refusing them representation, not discouraged, help of the press -- The Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer on Our Duty to Our New Possessions; strong protest against giving their men political power and refusing it to their women -- Discussion; commissions sent to investigate commerce, finance, everything but social conditions, demand for commission of women, in all savage tribes women superior to men, they should have ballot in Hawaii and the Philippines -- Letter from Samuel Gompers -- Care to secure soldiers' votes -- Effects of Suffrage Teaching -- Mrs. Sewall on True Civilization -- Miss Shaw speaks -- Mrs. Stanton on Women Alone Left to Fight their own Battles -- Women and War -- Epigrams from Southern women--Miss Anthony on Every Woman Can Help -- Resolutions of encouragement -- Memorial services for Parker Pillsbury, Robert Purvis, Matilda Joslyn Gage and many others, with Mrs. Stanton's tribute -- Efforts of the National Association to secure equal rights for Hawaiian women -- Shameful action of Congressional Committee -- Unimpeachable testimony from the Philippines.