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Report on Woman Suffrage in the United States.

By Clara Berwick Colby, president
of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association,
Editor of the Woman's Tribune, Washington
D.C.

Dear Sisters and Fellow Workers
in the Cause of Woman and Humanity.

The report which I have the
honor to transmit to you will touch
briefly on the success of woman's political
enfranchisement as far as it has been
established in this country.

The development of the United
States as a nation has been so rapid
and recent, and woman's part therein
has been so well recognized, that it
has brought about an exceptionally
favored condition for women. Still
there are not wanting everywhere traces of
her degradation under the old
common law of England which prevailed
at all time in
this country, and which still is in
force in several of the States. Until June
of this year this law as far
as it related to women was in
force in the District of Columbia making
a married woman a non-entity in
relation to all business and property