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Show Aoman Suffrage Convention. The twenty-seventh annual convention conven-tion of the National American Woman Suffrage association will be held in Atlanta At-lanta in De Give's Opera House Jan. 31 to Feb. 5. The official call for the convention con-vention says: The object of these conventions is to educate women into a knowledge of their rights and duties as citizens of a republic, repub-lic, and through them to arouse the nation na-tion to a sense of the national wrong perpetrated by the disfranchisement of half the people of the United States in opposition to the principles of government govern-ment declared by our laws and constitutions. constitu-tions. While Colorado's full enfranchisement enfranchise-ment of women in 1893 is encouraging, the defeat of the suffrage amendments in New York and Kansas in 1894 shows how largely men still fail when called upon to put in practice the principles they enunciate. Though 26 states have granted some slight concessions to women citizens, in no states of the Union, save Wyoming and Colorado, aro women yet admitted to the dignity of equal rights in citizenship. citizen-ship. In only six states of the Union are mothers conceded to be legal owners of their own children. Such being the sad and shameful stare of affairs, it behooves all lovers of justice jus-tice to rally at the call to speed the next step in human progress the full development de-velopment of the mother of the race, the greatest factor in the coming civilization. |