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[International Council of Women Stationery]

[Riggs House, Washington, D.C.] March 30, [1888.]
I have all the qualifications for a voter age property and education and yet am denied the right. I must pay taxes, and the penalty of my own crimes, and yet have no voice in the laws and lawmakers, hence according to Benjamin Franklin I am a slave.
	Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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				Alma Lutz Collection

[International Council of Women Stationery]

Fortieth Anniversary of the Woman Suffrage Movement
International Council of Women

Assembled by the
National Woman Suffrage Association
of the United States

To be held in Washington, D.C., March 25; to April 1, 1888, 
Inclusive.
Committee of Arrangements:

[column one]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, President
8 West 40th St. New York.
Susan B. Anthony Rochester, N.Y.
Matilda Joslyn Gage Fayetteville N.Y.
Vice-Presidents at Large

[column 2]
May Wright Sewall 
Chairman Ex. Com.
343 N. Pennsylvania St. Indianapolis, IND.
Rachel G. Foster. Cor. Sec.
748 N. 19th St. 
Philadelphia
Jane H. Spofford Treasurer
Riggs House, Washington D.C.

Riggs House, Washington, D.C. March 30, 1888

I have all the qualifications for a voter age property and education and yet am denied the right. I must pay taxes, and the penalty of my own crimes, and yet have no voice in the laws and lawmakers, hence according to Benjamin Franklin I am a slave.
	Elizabeth Cady Stanton