Chapter 8

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN -- HEARING OF 1888 124-142

Origin of the Council -- Call issued by National Suffrage Association -- Official statistics of this great meeting -- Eloquent sermon of the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw on the Heavenly Vision; release of woman from bondage of centuries, crucifixion of reformers, the visions of all ages -- Miss Anthony opens the Council -- Mrs. Stanton's address; psalms of women's lives in a minor key, sympathy as a civil agent powerless until coined into law, women have been mere echoes of men -- Council demands all employments shall be open to women, equal pay for equal work, a single standard of morality -- Forming of permanent National and International Councils -- Convention of Suffrage Association -- Mrs. Stanton expounds National Constitution to Senate Committee and shows the violation of its provisions in their application to women -- Mrs. Ormiston Chant makes address -- Also Julia Ward Howe -- Frances E. Willard pleads for enfranchisement.