Hearing Before the Committee on Rules, House of Representatives, Sixty-third Congress, Second Session: On Resolution Establishing a Committee on Woman Suffrage : December 3, 4 and 5, 1913These proceedings of the hearings on woman suffrage contain the speeches of leading suffrage workers such as Anna Howard Shaw, Ida Husted Harper, Jane Addams, and Mary Beard, as well as the speeches of prominent women against suffrage. |
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Page 101 - No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American people into one common mass.
Page 101 - Were the laws of the Union to new-model the internal police of any State; were they to alter, or abrogate at a blow, the whole of its civil and criminal institutions ; were they to penetrate the recesses of domestic life, and control, in all respects, the private conduct of individuals, — there might be more force in the objections; and the same Constitution, which was happily calculated for one State, might sacrifice the welfare of another.
Page 166 - Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women (MAOFESW) had as presi2.
Page 172 - ... physical structure and a proper discharge of her maternal functions — having in view not merely her own health, but the well-being of the race — justify legislation to protect her from the greed as well as the passion of man.
Page 151 - I say that the correct principle is, that women are not only justified, but exhibit the most exalted virtue when they do depart from the domestic circle, and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their God.
Page 150 - I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).
Page 100 - Believing that the most efficient results under our system of government are to be attained by the full exercise by the states of their reserved sovereign powers, we denounce as usurpation the efforts of our opponents to deprive the states of any of the rights reserved to them, and to enlarge and magnify by indirection the powers of the federal government.
Page 70 - Well, yes! I'd dropped it and hadn't noticed it, and I know I shouldn't have, but it was a queen, and I particularly needed . . . That's not to say that if I had it to do over again, I might —
Page 105 - The blow aimed at the members must give a fatal wound to the head, and the destruction of the States must be at once a political suicide.
Page 185 - Whenever the majority of women ask for suffrage they will get it. — Every improvement in the condition of women thus far has been secured not by a general demand from the majority of women, but by the arguments, entreaties, and "continual coming