NATIONAL-AMERICAN CONVENTION OF 1899 322-348
Excellent arrangements at Grand Rapids -- Welcome from women's
organizations -- Miss Anthony's response; counting negro men and
refusing them representation no worse than counting all women and
refusing them representation, not discouraged, help of the press
-- The Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer on Our Duty to Our New
Possessions; strong protest against giving their men political
power and refusing it to their women -- Discussion; commissions
sent to investigate commerce, finance, everything but social
conditions, demand for commission of women, in all savage tribes
women superior to men, they should have ballot in Hawaii and the
Philippines -- Letter from Samuel Gompers -- Care to secure
soldiers' votes -- Effects of Suffrage Teaching -- Mrs. Sewall on
True Civilization -- Miss Shaw speaks -- Mrs. Stanton on Women
Alone Left to Fight their own Battles -- Women and War --
Epigrams from Southern women--Miss Anthony on Every Woman Can
Help -- Resolutions of encouragement -- Memorial services for
Parker Pillsbury, Robert Purvis, Matilda Joslyn Gage and many
others, with Mrs. Stanton's tribute -- Efforts of the National
Association to secure equal rights for Hawaiian women -- Shameful
action of Congressional Committee -- Unimpeachable testimony from
the Philippines.