NATIONAL-AMERICAN CONVENTION OF 1898 288-321
Fiftieth Anniversary of First Woman's Rights Convention -- Chief
obstacle to organization is women themselves -- Gains of
half-a-century -- Miss Anthony's birthday luncheon -- Mrs.
Stanton's paper on Our Defeats and Our Triumphs -- The
Distinguished Dead -- Mrs. Hooker and Miss Anthony in pretty
scene -- Roll-call of Pioneers -- Letter from Abigail Bush,
president of first convention -- Greetings from Lucinda H. Stone,
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell and many individuals and associations --
Addresses by Mrs. Cannon, a woman State Senator from Utah, Mrs.
Conine, a woman State Representative from Colorado, Miss Reel,
State Superintendent of Instruction from Wyoming, U. S. Senators
Teller and Cannon, and others -- Senate Hearing -- Wm. Lloyd
Garrison on The Nature of a Republican Form of Government -- May
Wright Sewall on Fitness of Women to Become Citizens from the
Standpoint of Education and Mental Development -- The Rev. Anna
Garlin Spencer on Moral Development -- Laura Clay on Physical
Development -- Harriot Stanton Blatch on Woman as an Economic
Factor -- Florence Kelley, State Factory Inspector of Illinois,
on the Workingwoman's Need of the Ballot -- Mariana W. Chapman on
Women as Capitalists and Taxpayers -- Elizabeth Burrill Curtis,
Are Women Represented in Our Government? -- Henry B. Blackwell,
Woman Suffrage and the Home -- Mrs. Stanton, The Significance and
History of the Ballot -- House Hearing -- Practical Working of
Woman Suffrage -- Alice Stone Blackwell on The Indifference of
Women -- Miss Anthony Closes Hearing.