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Oswald Villard - Editor
Evening Post
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WOMEN APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT.
In July, 1848, history records the first movement among women for the discussion of their political, religious and social wrongs.
Since then the demand for the right of suffrage has extended over many countries and has been granted, in one form or another, in the United States, in England and her colonies, in Australia, New Zealand, the Isle of Man and New South Wales.
Tax-paying women have voted by proxy in several nations of the Old World for many years.
In the long history of woman’s wrongs there never has been so favorable a time to demand her complete emancipation in the United States as now, for we have for the first time in this Republic a President who declared himself in favor or woman’s political equality.
When President Roosevelt was Governor of New York he recommended the enfranchisement of women of the State in his message to the New York Legislature, and expressed the same opinion on several public occasions. Now is the opportune time for leading women to ask the president to make the same demand in his coming Message to Congress for this act of justice to thirty-six million American citizens now defrauded of their most sacred right, one that underlies all others,
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a voice in the laws.
For, as the Fathers said long ago: “No just government can be formed without the consent of the governed.”
In a speech made by the President at Finchburg on Labor Day, he said that he was “in favor of an amendment tot he Constitution of the United States, conferring additional power upon the federal government to deal with corporations.”
To control and restrain giant monopolies for the best interests of all the people is of vast import, but of far vaster importance is the establishment and protection of the rights and liberties of one half the people in the United States -- the most moral half, too - namely, women.
Surely there is no greater monopoly than that of all men in denying to all women a voice in the laws they are compelled to obey.
October 20, 1902. Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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Oct. 20, 1902
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WOMEN APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT.
In July, 1848, history records the first movement among women for the discussion of their political, religious and social wrongs.
Since then the demand for the right of suffrage has extended over many countries and has been granted, in one form or another, in the United States, in England and her colonies, in Australia, New Zealand, the Isle of Man and New South Wales.
Tax-paying women have voted by proxy in several nations of the Old World for many years.
In the long history of woman’s wrongs there never has been so favorable a time to demand her complete emancipation in the United States as now, for we have for the first time in this Republic a President who declared himself in favor or woman’s political equality.
When President Roosevelt was Governor of New York he recommended the enfranchisement of women of the State in his message to the New York Legislature, and expressed the same opinion on several public occasions. Now is the opportune time for leading women to ask the president to make the same demand in his coming Message to Congress for this act of justice to thirty-six million American citizens now defrauded of their most sacred right, one that underlies all others, a voice in the laws.
For, as the Fathers said long ago: “No just government can be formed without the consent of the governed.”
In a speech made by the President at Finchburg on Labor Day, he said that he was “in favor of an amendment to the Constitution of the
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United States, conferring additional power upon the federal government to deal with corporations.”
To control and restrain giant monopolies for the best interests of all the people is of vast import, but of far vaster importance is the establishment and protection of the rights and liberties of one half the people in the United States -- the most moral half, too - namely, women.
Surely there is no greater monopoly than that of all men in denying to all women a voice in the laws they are compelled to obey.
October 20, 1902. Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Note:
This is a copy of the appeal written & prepared for mailing to the press by Mrs. Stanton a few days before her death. October 26, 1902. An envelope addressed to Oswald Villard, editor of the Nation is attached.
[envelope]
Oswald Villard - Editor
Evening Post
Broadway and Fulton St. N.Y.
[one cent stamp]
______________________
Page 2
Please copy
[typed document]
WOMEN APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT.
In July, 1848, history records the first movement among women for the discussion of their political, religious and social wrongs.
Since then the demand for the right of suffrage has extended over many countries and has been granted, in one form or another, in the United States, in England and her colonies, in Australia, New Zealand, the Isle of Man and New South Wales.
Tax-paying women have voted by proxy in several nations of the Old World for many years.
In the long history of woman’s wrongs there never has been so favorable a time to demand her complete emancipation in the United States as now, for we have for the first time in this Republic a President who declared himself in favor or woman’s political equality.
When President Roosevelt was Governor of New York he recommended the enfranchisement of women of the State in his message to the New York Legislature, and expressed the same opinion on several public occasions. Now is the opportune time for leading women to ask the president to make the same demand in his coming Message to Congress for this act of justice to thirty-six million American citizens now defrauded of their most sacred right, one that underlies all others,
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a voice in the laws.
For, as the Fathers said long ago: “No just government can be formed without the consent of the governed.”
In a speech made by the President at Finchburg on Labor Day, he said that he was “in favor of an amendment tot he Constitution of the United States, conferring additional power upon the federal government to deal with corporations.”
To control and restrain giant monopolies for the best interests of all the people is of vast import, but of far vaster importance is the establishment and protection of the rights and liberties of one half the people in the United States -- the most moral half, too - namely, women.
Surely there is no greater monopoly than that of all men in denying to all women a voice in the laws they are compelled to obey.
October 20, 1902. Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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[typed transcript]
Oct. 20, 1902
COPY
Original in
Alma Lutz Collection
Please copy
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WOMEN APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT.
In July, 1848, history records the first movement among women for the discussion of their political, religious and social wrongs.
Since then the demand for the right of suffrage has extended over many countries and has been granted, in one form or another, in the United States, in England and her colonies, in Australia, New Zealand, the Isle of Man and New South Wales.
Tax-paying women have voted by proxy in several nations of the Old World for many years.
In the long history of woman’s wrongs there never has been so favorable a time to demand her complete emancipation in the United States as now, for we have for the first time in this Republic a President who declared himself in favor or woman’s political equality.
When President Roosevelt was Governor of New York he recommended the enfranchisement of women of the State in his message to the New York Legislature, and expressed the same opinion on several public occasions. Now is the opportune time for leading women to ask the president to make the same demand in his coming Message to Congress for this act of justice to thirty-six million American citizens now defrauded of their most sacred right, one that underlies all others, a voice in the laws.
For, as the Fathers said long ago: “No just government can be formed without the consent of the governed.”
In a speech made by the President at Finchburg on Labor Day, he said that he was “in favor of an amendment to the Constitution of the
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United States, conferring additional power upon the federal government to deal with corporations.”
To control and restrain giant monopolies for the best interests of all the people is of vast import, but of far vaster importance is the establishment and protection of the rights and liberties of one half the people in the United States -- the most moral half, too - namely, women.
Surely there is no greater monopoly than that of all men in denying to all women a voice in the laws they are compelled to obey.
October 20, 1902. Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Note:
This is a copy of the appeal written & prepared for mailing to the press by Mrs. Stanton a few days before her death. October 26, 1902. An envelope addressed to Oswald Villard, editor of the Nation is attached.
