e has no redress in case of damage to person,
property, or character. In case of divorce on account of
adultery in the husband, the innocent wife is held to
possess no right to children or property, unless by special
decree of the court. But in no State of the Union has the
wife the right to her own person, or to any part of the
joint earnings of the co-partnership during the life of her
husband. In some States women may enter the law schools and
practice in the courts; in others they are forbidden. In
some universities girls enjoy equal educational advantages
with boys, while many of the proudest institutions in the
land deny them admittance, though the sons of China, Japan
and Africa are welcomed there. But the privileges already
granted in the several States are by no means secure. The
right of suffrage once exercised by women in certain States
and territories has been denied by subsequent legislation. A
bill is now pending in congress to disfranchise the women of
Utah, thus interfering to deprive United States citizens of
the same rights which the Supreme Court has declared the
national government powerless to protect anywhere. Laws
passed after years of untiring effort, guaranteeing married
women certain rights of property, and mothers the custody of
their children, have been repealed in States where we
supposed all was safe. Thus have our most sacred rights been
made the football of legislative caprice, proving that a
power which grants as a privilege what by nature is a right,
may withhold the same as a penalty when deeming it necessary
for its own perpetuation.

_Representation of woman_ has had no place in the nation's
thought. Since the incorporation of the thirteen original
States, twenty-four have been admitted to the Union, not one
of which has recognized woman's right of self-government. On
this birthday of our national liberties, July Fourth, 1876,
Colorado, like all her elder sisters, comes into the Union
with the invidious word "male" in her constitution.

_Universal manhood suffrage_, by establishing an aristocracy
of sex, imposes upon the women of