HENRY BLACKWELL

… personal independence and equal human rights can never be forfeited, except for crime; that marriage should be an equal and permanent partnership, and so recognized by law; that until it is so recognized, married partners should provide against the radical injustice of present laws, by every means in their power...

Add to the voting constituency [of New York State] one million educated women who can read and write the English language. Then women will be respected, for power always commands respect.

It is literally true... that an attempt is beng mad to exterminate the whole armenian race and put an end to the whole Armenian question. All the horrors in Bulgaria that led to a great war have now been repeated, and we are here, not only to protest but to demand off our government that it shall send its delegates to Turkey and ascertain the facts and demand explanation.

In the present state of society, if every man who seduces a child of 15 leaving her no practical alternative but suicide or a life of prostitution, were promptly put out of existence, the morals of the community would be vastly improved. This girl has had no trial by a jury of her peers. She has been tried, convicted, and sentenced by men alone. If half the jury had been women as should be invariably the case,--if there had been but one woman connected with the trial, no such cruel sentence of capital punishment would have shocked the moral sense of mankind.

Add to the voting constituency [of New York State] one million educated women who can read and write the English language. Then women will be respected, for power always commands respect.

In the present state of society, if every man who seduces a child of 15 leaving her no practical alternative but suicide or a life of prostitution, were promptly put out of existence, the morals of the community would be vastly improved. This girl has had no trial by a jury of her peers. She has been tried, convicted, and sentenced by men alone. If half the jury had been women as should be invariably the case,--if there had been but one woman connected with the trial, no such cruel sentence of capital punishment would have shocked the moral sense of mankind.

It is literally true... that an attempt is beng mad to exterminate the whole armenian race and put an end to the whole Armenian question. All the horrors in Bulgaria that led to a great war have now been repeated, and we are here, not only to protest but to demand off our government that it shall send its delegates to Turkey and ascertain the facts and demand explanation.