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.