BACKGROUND
• She was born Carrie Clinton Lane on January 9, 1859 in Ripon,
Wisconsin..
• She was a women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which
gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920.
• Catt served as president of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association and was the founder of the League of
Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women.
CARRIE CATT QUOTES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPpdLQdOE9w
WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Woman suffrage is inevitable. Suffragists knew it before November
4, 1917; opponents afterward. Three distinct causes made it
inevitable.
First, the history of our country. Ours is a nation born of revolution,
of rebellion against a system of government so securely
entrenched in the customs and traditions of human society that
in 1776 it seemed impregnable.
SOAPSTONE- SUBJECT
Subject : The subject of this speech is women not being
able to vote.
“ Fifty years more passed and the president of the
United States, Woodrow Wilson, in a mighty crisis of
the nation, proclaimed to the world: "We are fighting
for the things which we have always carried nearest to
our hearts: for democracy, for the right of those who
submit to authority to have a voice in their own
government. “
SOAPSTONE- OCCASION
Occasion : The occasion of this speech is women's
suffrage, when women couldn’t vote.
SOAPSTONE- AUDIENCE
Audience : The audience of this speech was congress.
SOAPSTONE- PURPOSE
Purpose : The purpose of this speech was to get the
point across to congress and everyone else that
women had just as much a right to vote as men.
SOAPSTONE- SPEAKER
Speaker : Carrie Catt is the person who is giving the
speech.
SOAPSTONE- TONE
Tone : The tone of this speech is determination,
seriousness, demanding, and angry.
LOGOS
Logos : “ With such a history behind it, how can our nation escape
the logic it has never failed to follow, when its last
unenfranchised class calls for the vote? Behold our Uncle Sam
floating the banner with one hand, "Taxation without
representation is tyranny," and with the other seizing the billions
of dollars paid in taxes by women to whom he refuses
"representation."
Carrie is saying that the women contributed to the country just as
much as the men did but they still had no rights.
PATHOS
Pathos : All the way between these immortal aphorisms political
leaders have declared unabated faith in their truth. Not one
American has arisen to question their logic in the 141 years of
our national existence. However stupidly our country may have
evaded the logical application at times, it has never swerved
from its devotion to the theory of democracy as expressed by
those two axioms ....
I feel that Carrie wanted the audience and everyone else who wasn’t
already angry, to be angry about the situation.
PHRASING / MEANING
Gentlemen, we hereby petition you, our only designated
representatives, to redress our grievances by the immediate
passage of the Federal Suffrage Amendment and to use your
influence to secure its ratification in your own state, in order that
the women of our nation may be endowed with political freedom
before the next presidential election, and that our nation may
resume its world leadership in democracy.
This statement has a lot of meaning because she was asking of
them something that not many people agreed with.
TO FOLLOW …
Women afterwards had the right to vote on everything men voted on.