ext November, about the time when
Nebraska will be voting for equal suffrage, the women in Scotland
will be voting for the first time in their municipal elections.
The session of 1882 will be memorable in future for having passed
the act which gives a married woman the right to hold her own
property, make contracts, sue and be sued, in the same manner as
if she were a single woman. It is nearly thirty years since we
first began our efforts in this matter, and each succeeding step
has been won very slowly and with great difficulty through the
efforts of those who are working to obtain the suffrage. Mr.
Gladstone still expresses the hope that next session will place
the franchise on a "fair" basis, meaning thereby the same right
of voting for counties as for boroughs. We maintain that the
franchise can never be said to be on a fair basis while women are
debarred from the right of voting. Our progress and your progress
will keep even pace together, for if women are free in America no
long time can elapse before they are free here. We can but offer
you our sympathy and we beg this favor of you, that as soon as
you have the returns of the vote ascertained, you will telegraph
the news to us, that our English societies may keep the day of
rejoicing heart in heart with the American National Association.

With cordial sympathy in all your efforts, I am, faithfully
yours,

CAROLYN ASHURST BIGGS.

_To the National Woman Suffrage Association, in Convention
assembled, at Omaha, Nebraska, September 26, 27, 28:_

DEAR FRIENDS: The most pressing work before the National Woman
Suffrage Convention, is bringing all its forces to bear upon
congress for the submission of a sixteenth amendment to the
national constitution, which shall prohibit States from
disfranchising citizens of the United States, on the ground of
sex, or for any cause not equally applicable to all citizens.
While we of the National are glad to see an amendment to a State
constitution proposed, securing suffrage to woman, as is the case
in Nebraska this fall, we must not be led by it to forget or
neglect our legitimate work, an amendment to the national
constitution, which will secure suffrage at one and the same
moment to the women of each Stat