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Addams discusses the events of the International Congress of Women, including presentations by Schwimmer, Augsburg, and Pethick-Lawrence.

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Addams talks about the benefits of woman suffrage for the entire country.

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Speech given by Addams at the Biennial Convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, concerning the role of women's clubs in shaping public policies.

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Addams elaborates on how women can contribute to internationalism and peace after the war.

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Addams, argues for woman suffrage claiming that municipal matters are directly related to their traditional responsibilities.

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Addams speaks on woman suffrage at a meeting in Potage, Wisconsin. She gave the same speech in Janesvile.

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Addams argues women's need for the vote so that they can  perform their duties to family and the nation.

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Addams discusses the movement for municipal suffrage for women in Chicago, arguing that it will help improve schools, public health, and sanitation.

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Addams gave this lecture at least two times; once at the February 2 meeting of the New York City Women's Political Union, and again on February 14 at the Boston School Voters' League. In the lecture, she discusses the philosophical relationship between women and the State and argues for the value of women in government, leading to the importance of woman suffrage. She may have also delivered a version of this lecture in Chicago on Dec. 8, 1910, to the Fortnightly Club.

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Trotter praises Addams' public opposition to the exclusion of black delegates at the Progressive Party Convention and asks her to consider opposing Theodore Roosevelt.

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Bliss thanks Addams for agreeing to provide a paper on woman suffrage for Sunday classes.

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White invites Addams to make speeches in Kansas and Missouri for woman suffrage and for the Progressive Party.

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In the final installment of "Why Women Should Vote," Addams highlights why women need the ballot and argues that woman suffrage is centuries overdue and necessary for women to protect themselves.

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The second in a four-part series arguing for woman suffrage.

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In this first installment of "Why Women Should Vote," Addams argues that antiquated notions of being a "lady" work against the woman suffrage movement.

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Addams connects woman suffrage with social work, arguing that women's voices are necessary for the improvement of social and labor conditions and that all -- social workers and housewives -- have a stake in making laws, which protect women, children, and families. Addams likely gave this speech on multiple occasions. This speech was also published in the Chicago Tribune on February 4, 1912.

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Addams argues for women to have the vote in order that they may continue to perform their duties to family and to home in the modern world, where responsibilities, like feeding their children and keeping them safe, are no long directly within their control.

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The Chicago Tribune published an excerpted version of Addams' speech on woman suffrage in Madison, Wisconsin, on January 23, 1912.

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Addams defends her decision to support the Progressive Party in the face of criticism from woman suffrage activists who prefer non-partisan activism.

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An excerpt from Addams' address to the National American Woman Suffrage Association, on October 21, 1911, in Louisville, Kentucky, arguing that the desire for woman suffrage comes from women's desires for better social conditions.

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Addams argues that women's interests coincide with the work the Progressive Party is doing and that they should support it.

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Addams' speech given between acts in Chicago theaters exhorts support for woman suffrage.

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Addams discusses the woman suffrage movement in relation to other movements for the franchise.

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Note addressed to Addams praising her article and commenting on the Woman Suffrage Party event on May 20, 1912.

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Addams pays tribute to Theodore Parker at a Memorial Banquet in Chicago, where she praised his anti-slavery work and support of black suffrage, blamed his generation for not extending suffrage to women, and surmised that Parker would have ultimately supported the franchise for women had he lived longer.

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Roosevelt compliments Addams's article in McClure's, which argues that woman's suffrage will lift up women from vice. But he also offers a caution that women's suffrage could fail to impart real change as suffrage failed to impart real change for African Americans in the South.

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Roosevelt thanks Addams for her supportive speech and for seconding of his nomination for President at the Progressive Party Convention.

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Addams gives arguments for woman's suffrage, stressing that working class need it to be able to control some aspects of their lives.

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Addams recaps the events of a recent local Chicago election where women were allowed to vote and shows that women voters can be helpful to social reforms by being partisan voters.

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Addams discusses the benefits of suffrage and how the vote will benefit immigrant women living in tenement houses. This lecture was made before the Ethical Culture Society at New Century Hall in Philadelphia on March 14, 1908 and published later.

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Addams argues for women's increased participation in politics and defends her decision to back a political party. This is one of a series of articles she prepared for the Central Press Association as part of the Progressive Party campaign in 1912.

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Addams reports on the Progressive Party Convention, discussing how items were added to its platform, particularly labor and military planks, and her dismay about the conventions unjust treatment of African-Americans. This is one of a series of articles she prepared as part of the Progressive Party campaign in 1912.

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At the Biennial Federation of Women's Clubs, Addams discusses the problems of associating the right to vote with marital status of the husband, telling of experiences with immigrant women voting in Chicago.

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Addams discusses the history of suffrage and argues that women in modern, urban societies need the vote.

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Addams marks the 38th anniversary of women's suffrage in Wyoming and the eighth anniversary of national suffrage at the annual meeting of the League of Women Voters, held at the Palmer House in Chicago.

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Addams details the many reasons why it is important that women be given the right to vote, and of how the suffrage movement is not just found in Western nations, but globally.

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In a humorous effort to render the male arguments against woman suffrage absurd, Addams describes a hypothetical world in which women hold power and men are asking for the vote.

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Addams' keynote address before the National American Woman Suffrage Association meeting in Philadelphia argues that women must have the ballot in order to maintain their moral and familial role for the betterment of society.

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An excerpt from Addams' speech to the National Woman Suffrage Association meeting in Philadelphia on November 24, 1912.

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A newspaper report and excerpts from Addams' February 17 speech at the National Suffrage Convention, after the defeat of municipal suffrage for women in Chicago.

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A summary of Addams' speech at Mount Holyoke College in support of woman suffrage as a means to foster social change.

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Addams' short argument for woman suffrage that women's voices are needed for the health and beauty of the cities.

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Also known as The Army Gets Busy, November 2, 1912

Addams apologizes for inaccurate information about the Socialist Party's endorsement of woman suffrage, which the Progressive Party circulated. The editor of the Appeal to Reason comments both before and after the published version of her letter.

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Addams argues before a Congressional Committee that women should have voting rights because their humanitarian voices are needed for the betterment of society.

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Farrell thanks Addams for her role in creating the Progressive Party platform.

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Addams speaks to a crowded theater about suffrage, answering audience questions afterwards.
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A summary of Addams speech about woman suffrage at the start of her lecture tour.

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A news account of Addams' criticism of President Wilson on woman suffrage and affirmation of her membership in the Progressive Party.

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Addams argues that the House should pass the Susan B. Anthony Amendment that would grant women the right to vote.

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Addams notes that she is not alarmed about present day social conditions.

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