Chapter 5

THE NATIONAL SUFFRAGE CONVENTION OF 1886 70-84

Relation of the Woman Suffrage Movement to the Labor Question -- Take Down the Barriers -- German and American Independence Contrasted -- Resolution condemning Creeds and Dogmas again discussed -- Woman's Right to Vote under Fourteenth Amendment -- Disfranchisement Cuts Women's Wages -- One-half No Right to a Vote on Liberties of Other Half -- Woman Suffrage Necessary for Life of Republic -- America lags behind in granting political rights to women -- Minority House Report in favor of a Sixteenth Amendment by Ezra B. Taylor, W. P. Hepburn, Lucian B. Caswell, A. A. Ranney; men hold franchise by force, women require it for development, history of woman one of wrong and outrage, Government needs woman's vote, no excuse for waiting till majority demand it.