BLACKWELL FAMILY ALICE STONE BLACKWELL SUBJECT FILE MEETING19131913 COBWEB FIBREBudget 20626.00 In hand 2000 for let 1000 total budget 23626.00 Dues 8362.85 5% tax 3416.34 Total 11779.40 to be raised by pledges= 11846.60 actually raised 12567.35 Dec 4, 1913 Vote Pres A H S 1st VP J A 2 VP Mrs. Breckinridge Rec Sec Mrs Fity Cor Sec Dennett Treas Mrs MsCornnick Auditors Laidlaw & Brown Miss R[?] Rees 3rd Vice moar by Mis Celay Miss Shaw says vote has grown daily ¶ Katherine Houghton Hepburn If Pres of US had been brought up by an enfranchised woman I am sure he wd have known more abt the principles of Democ No matter how hard your work, if yourboy finds everything he meets giving you the lie, what chance have you? Get deal was said at hearing about "ignorant vote" We have found it was not in slums-women living next disorderly houses knew what it meant. We object to[i?] in residential district but that is where they are put Have never found woman living next one who thought it was a protection to grand women What such questions mean to women Decide if hubris shallbe blind, if married women shall be healthy - women told us they saw men from the hill going to these hothouse - that married women, think it they protect us - Norman Hafgood said when he announced he was coming out on this subject in Harper's Weekly he got endless letters from women thanking him & from men protesting - not [?] women good & men bad but women trained for ages & men brought up as barbarians - nothing about itin President's message - full of currency &c Is bill that has passed Senate twice (?)/ but is held up by secret caucus of house - red light injunction - let w have resolution calling for bill - bury copies of repart of our vice com Towle - Whereas there is funding in Congress Kenyon red light bill wh wd largely abolish commercial/ vice [under] in knowledge & under regulation of police B [?] [R?] 1134000 171000 Prog Mrs. Whitehouse 665000 Mr Dum of NY [?] $25 Conn $100 Cal Mrs. AL Campbell $10 Grace McMahan 2 $25 College League of Pa 10 GW Latimer Baltimore " fr Ohio 10 Mrs. WD Connor Bancroft Pl NW 100 for Wilson's conversion [10] Kenyon of Pa Mrs. Henry Villard for Pres Wilson's expression of conversion $5 for memory of Mrs. Arthur Dodge 30 cts in honor of Antis $10 for year till cause is won Grossman of Ga Someone ought to give some thing for President's daughter who believes in suf & is 1st bride Helen A Calhoun $10 $10 per yr till cause is won fr Mrs. of Ga $2 for Heflin of Ala $10 for Hepburn of Conn $2 for each of her 4 children Mrs. Hepburn $10 for Capt Hobson of Ala (took $11000. in stock of Cit printing co) $2 for Oscar Underwood of Ala who says he is by no means opposed to ws $10 for Congressman Woodruff of Mich & for Cong Thompson of Ills $10 for Judge Shiel & others of Tenn Miss Carrie Harrison of DC $10 for Roosevelt who will convert Wilson Mrs. Camron ? gives 40 to make up $600. -$10 for w S in SD - $15 in honor of Mrs Catt CH Mrs Catt Most amazing fact to me in world = indif & [apprecit?] men to their own enfranchisement - had it in Greece 2500 yrs ago but still in most enlightened countries are many unenfranchised & not asking for it - whenever [pol?] power has been given to men was always had something not were something - in 1832 in Grt Britain vote belonged to pot boiler & men who cd boil our pots - might be seen boil for little fire before housewomen invented the pot, primeval woman was 1st potter, got even till us - worse little rope of mind about her basket - majority of women in world still make pots - women discovered boiling, & also agriculture was 1st miller & ground in mortar in pestle the grain she raised - most men of world are still fed upon meal made by women of household - for ages have been boiling pot and feeding men out of it - are clothing men on [3?] continents - Emperor at time of Jesus'sbirth boasted be never wore garment not woven dyed & embroidered by women of his household - Geo Wash wore butternut homespun - Pueblo & Navajo women doing same - Have lost dignity of our economic independence - are women in India same legal rights, & in China in bound feet, who yet hold more dignified economic position > some college women in US Any John w Yankee principles will re l wasn't any grand bargain Men have stolen every employment they hadfr women. 77% of those found in factories making men's clothes are women. 8 000 000 women today are pot. voters they demand it as a logical right. There are in this convention those who believe in long process of securing vote State by State - am not 1 of them. Time for us to teach South we must have right to get it by Nat Amendment must turn our guns on our own members - our movement can wait no longer.In Rochester the other day was a strike leader who was black listed & committed suicide … demand of that old weather beaten Goddess of liberty on Capitol to send her ideas down to weather beaten men below Is unthinkable injustice that women shd have to secure franchise by so much harder route > men - I say to you, Let us on to Congress