for women was made in a
convention held at Seneca Falls, New York, in the year 1848.

To celebrate the Fortieth Anniversary of this event, an
International Council of Women will be convened under the
auspices of the National Woman Suffrage Association, in Albaugh's
opera house, Washington, D. C., on March 25, 1888.

It is impossible to overestimate the far-reaching influence of
such a Council. An interchange of opinions on the great questions
now agitating the world will rouse women to new thought, will
intensify their love of liberty and will give them a realizing
sense of the power of combination.

However the governments, religions, laws and customs of nations
may differ, all are agreed on one point, namely: man's
sovereignty in the State, in the Church and in the Home. In an
International Council women may hope to devise new and more
effective methods for securing in these three institutions the
equality and justice which they have so long and so earnestly
sought. Such a Council will impress the important lesson that the
position of women anywhere affects their position everywhere.
Much is said of universal brotherhood, but for weal or woe, more
subtle and more binding is universal sisterhood.

Women recognizing the disparity between their achievements and
their labors, will no doubt agree that they have been trammeled
by their political subordination. Those active in great
philanthropic enterprises sooner or later realize that, so long
as women are not acknowledged to be the political equals of men,
their judgment on political questions will have but little
weight.

It is, however, neither intended nor desired that discussions in
the International Council shall be limited to questions touching
the political rights of women. Formal invitations requesting the
appointment of delegates will be issued to representative
organizations in every department of woman's work. Literary
Clubs, Art Unions, Temperance Unions, Labor Leagues, Missionary,
Peace and Moral Purity Societies, Charitable, Professional,
Educational and Industrial Associations will thus be offered
equal opportunity with Suffrage Societies to be represented in
what should be the ablest and most imposing body of women ever
assembled.

The Council will continu