Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Speeches
Temperance V/Against the Great Destroyer - c. June 1853
June 1, 1853
This speech fragment discusses the Independent Order of Good Templars, an international organization formed in Utica, New York, in 1851 whose members did not buy, sell or use alcohol. The fragment may have been part of Bloomer's address to the first state convention of Good Templars, held in Utica in June 1853. Among the various organizations which have been formed for promoting the cause of temperance is that of the Independent Order of Good Templars, and whose members appear here today wearing this regalia. It is fitting that before I […]
Sarah Parker Remond
categories: Lecture, Speeches
American Slavery and its Influence on Great Britain – Aug. 14-21, 1861
August 14, 1861
The Influence of nation upon nation can scarcely be over-estimated since steam has brought the inhabitants of distant countries into more intimate relations with each other. No two countries separated by the same distance have been more closely connected through many channels than the States of North America and Great Britain, and the influence of national character becomes a matter of serious importance. Chattel slavery as it exists in the Southern States of North America is the colossal evil, the prolific source which has corrupted the public opinion throughout the […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Written Works
Woman's World Column - April 9, 1885
April 9, 1885
Carrie Chapman Catt (Carrie Lane at the time) retired from teaching after the end of the 1884 school year and married Leo Chapman, publisher and editor of the Mason City Republican newspaper, in February 1885. In the March 5 issue of The Republican, Catt’s name appeared in the masthead as co-editor of the paper with Chapman, and on March 19, the first installment of her new column, “Woman’s World,” was published. The Mason City Public Library has microfilm of every issue of The Republican from 1885 except one, and Catt’s […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Written Works
Woman's World Column - Oct. 1, 1885
October 1, 1885
Carrie Chapman Catt (Carrie Lane at the time) retired from teaching after the end of the 1884 school year and married Leo Chapman, publisher and editor of the Mason City Republican newspaper, in February 1885. In the March 5 issue of The Republican, Catt’s name appeared in the masthead as co-editor of the paper with Chapman, and on March 19, the first installment of her new column, “Woman’s World,” was published. The Mason City Public Library has microfilm of every issue of The Republican from 1885 except one, and Catt’s […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Written Works
Woman's World Column - Sept. 10, 1885
September 10, 1885
Carrie Chapman Catt (Carrie Lane at the time) retired from teaching after the end of the 1884 school year and married Leo Chapman, publisher and editor of the Mason City Republican newspaper, in February 1885. In the March 5 issue of The Republican, Catt’s name appeared in the masthead as co-editor of the paper with Chapman, and on March 19, the first installment of her new column, “Woman’s World,” was published. The Mason City Public Library has microfilm of every issue of The Republican from 1885 except one, and Catt’s […]
Mary Jane Coggeshall
Speeches
The White Cross and Women's Purity - c. 1886
January 1, 1886
In Great Britain in sundry garrison towns there has been in operation for twenty years up to last November, a law known as the "Contagious Diseases Acts," which had made the virtue of English women and girls as legally an article of barter, and sale as the traffic in sugar and coffee. The friends of Social Purity in England in an organization of which, Mrs. Josephine Butler is the inspired leader, -- a noble woman, who, as she sat in her darkened home from which her own lovely daughter had […]
Jane Addams
Speeches
Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements - 1892
January 1, 1892
Addams gave this address at the School of Applied Ethics. The Ethical Culture Societies held a summer school at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1892, to which they invited several people representing the then new Settlement movement, that they might discuss with others the general theme of Philanthropy and Social Progress. I venture to produce here parts of a lecture I delivered in Plymouth, both because I have found it impossible to formulate with the same freshness those early motives and strivings, and because, when published with other papers given that summer, […]
Bertha von Suttner
Speeches
Address to the London Meeting of the International Council of Women - June 27, 1899
June 27, 1899
This address was read by Mrs. M.P. Byles, as Suttner was in The Hague at the time. My Lady President, while in this Congress of the International Council of Women the name "Arbitration" has been chosen as the opening subject of its meetings, another Congress is sitting, as you well know, which has been summoned by a powerful monarch, and where all governments are represented, a Congress whose task it is to conduct this same question – not only as has been done hitherto, and as we might do here, […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
Speeches
Presidential Address to NAWSA - May 30, 1901
May 30, 1901
Following is Catt's address to the National American Woman Suffrage Association, as reported by The Woman's Journal on June 8, 1901. The fifteen months which have elapsed since our last Annual Convention have formed a period of special importance in the history of our movement and in the history of the nation. During those months the old Century has departed, with its record of having achieved more in the progress of civilization than had been accomplished in five hundred years before; and the new Century has come, giving abundant promise […]
Alice Stone Blackwell
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Statement at a Hearing before the Select Committee on Woman Suffrage - Feb. 18, 1902
February 18, 1902
Mr. Chairman and gentleman of the committee, I wish to submit to you to-day a few remarks, in very brief compass, simply from the standpoint of common sense. I wish to recall to your memory the fact that every step of progress toward improvement in the condition of women has been opposed by exactly the same predictions of disaster as are now made in regard to equal suffrage. When my mother was trying to secure for married women the right to control their own property it was said that it […]