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.