Guardianship of Children, Property Rights of Wives, etc.
Municipal Franchise for Women of England, Scotland and Ireland -- Women on school boards, county councils, poor-law boards, etc. -- Deprived of seats in borough councils.
On Royal Commissions, as factory, school and sanitary inspectors.
Admission to Universities and opening of Woman's Colleges.
Steps for the Parliamentary Franchise -- Granted in 1893 -- Statistics of woman's vote.
Efforts for Parliamentary Franchise -- Present political conditions -- Municipal and School Suffrage in the various Provinces -- Right of women to hold office.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN OTHER COUNTRIES 1038-1041
A limited vote granted in most places -- Situation in Germany -- Woman's franchise in Russia -- Advanced action in Finland -- Situation in Belgium -- Many rights in Sweden and Norway.
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF WOMEN 1042-1073
First societies on record -- Progress by decades -- Women's club houses -- Changed status of women's conventions -- List of National Associations -- Evolution of their objects -- Women gradually learning the disadvantages of disfranchisement -- 4,000,000 enrolled in organized work for the good of humanity -- Must necessarily become great factor in public life -- Government will be obliged to have their assistance.
EMINENT ADVOCATES OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE 1075-1085
Presidents, Vice-presidents, Supreme Court Judges, U. S. Senators and Representatives, Governors of States, Presidents of Universities, Clergymen and other noted individuals who advocate the enfranchisement of women.
TESTIMONY FROM WOMAN SUFFRAGE STATES 1085-1094
Signed statements from the highest authorities in Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming as to the value of woman's vote in public affairs and the absence of predicted evils.
Legal opinion on Suffrage and Office-holding for Women.
Detailed statement of women's voting and their unconstitutional disfranchisement by the Territorial Supreme Court.
CONSTITUTION OF NATIONAL-AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 1098-1104
Résumé of its principal points -- Officers -- Standing and Special Committees -- Life Members -- List of delegates to national conventions.
ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF PROPER NAMES 1122-1144
In the early days of the movement to enfranchise women, no other method was considered than that of altering the constitution of each individual State, as it was generally accepted that the right to prescribe the qualifications for the suffrage rested entirely with the States and that the National Constitution could not be invoked for this purpose. While the word "male" was not used in this document, yet with the one exception of New Jersey, where women exercised the full suffrage from the adoption of its first constitution in 1776 until 1807, there is no record of any woman's being permitted to vote. At the inception of the republic women were almost wholly uneducated; they were unknown in the industrial world; there were very few property owners among them; the manifold exactions of domestic duties absorbed all their time, strength and interest; and for these and many other causes they were not public factors in even the smallest sense of the word. One could readily believe that the founders of the Government never imagined a time when women would ask for a voice were it not for the significant fact that every State constitution, except the one mentioned above, was careful to put up an absolute barrier against such a contingency by confining the elective franchise strictly to "male" citizens--and there it has stood impassable down to the present day.