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.
NATIONAL-AMERICAN CONVENTION OF 1900 349-384
Woman suffrage editorial in Washington _Post_ -- Large number of young college women present -- Miss Anthony's last opening address as President -- Miss Shaw tells joke on her and then describes International Council of Women in London -- Miss Anthony reports as delegate to the Council, which was in effect a big suffrage meeting -- The Winning of Educational Freedom for Women -- Woman Suffrage in Colorado -- New Professions for Women Centering in the Home -- Justice of Woman Suffrage -- Federation of Labor for woman's enfranchisement -- Conditions of Wage-earning Women -- Miss Shaw's sermon on the Rights of Women -- Woman Suffrage in the South -- Work done in Congress and Miss Anthony's part in it -- Congressional Hearings -- Woman's Franchise in England -- Mrs. Chapman Catt on Why We Ask for the Submission of an Amendment -- Miss Anthony closes Senate hearing with touching appeal -- Constitutional Argument before House Committee by Mrs. Blake -- Mrs. Stanton's annual State paper -- The Economic Basis of Woman Suffrage -- The Protective Power of the Ballot -- Miss Shaw's plea for justice and liberty -- First appearance of Anti-Suffragists -- Their amusing inconsistencies -- Charges made by them officially refuted -- Miss Anthony's reception by President and Mrs. McKinley.