nchisement
a Disgrace -- Matilda Joslyn Gage on The Feminine in the
Sciences.

CHAPTER III.

CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS AND REPORTS OF 1884 31-55

Debate in the House on a Special Woman Suffrage Committee --
Extracts from speeches of John H. Reagan on Awful Effects of
Woman Suffrage -- James B. Belford on Woman's Right to a Special
Committee -- J. Warren Keifer on Justice of the Enfranchisement
of Women -- John D. White on Woman's Right to be Heard -- Hearing
before Senate Committee -- Interdependence of Men and Women --
Woman Suffrage a Paramount Question -- A Right does not Depend on
a Majority's Asking for It -- Woman's Ballot for the Good of the
Race -- Preponderance of Foreign Vote -- Miss Anthony on Action
by Congress vs. Action by Legislatures -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
on Self-Government the Best Means of Self-Development; moral need
of woman's ballot, men as natural protectors, inherent right of
self-representation -- Favorable Senate Report -- Adverse House
Report by William C. Maybury -- Editorial comment -- Luke P.
Poland on Men Should Represent Women -- Strong Report in Favor by
Thomas B. Reed, Ezra B. Taylor, Moses A. McCoid, Thomas M.
Browne.

CHAPTER IV.

THE NATIONAL SUFFRAGE CONVENTION OF 1885 56-69

Startling descriptions of delegates' attire -- Mrs. Stanton on
Separate Spheres an Impossibility -- Discussion on resolution
denouncing Religious Dogmas -- Criticism by ministers -- Great
speech in favor of Woman Suffrage in the U. S. Senate by Thomas
W. Palmer; action by Congress a necessity, Scriptures not opposed
to the equality of woman, figures of women's vote, State needs
woman's ballot.

CHAPTER V.

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. Ran