We do not complain that man is slow to realize the injustice
of his present attitude towards woman--an attitude once,
from necessity, endurable; now, from too long continuance,
grown intolerable. It would not be natural for him to feel
it with equal keenness. It takes a great-minded fox to find
out, what every goose knows, that foxes' teeth are cruel.
And while we do not complain of this incapacity on his part,
the advocates of this cause feel the necessity for woman to
take upon herself whatever share in the management of their
mutual affairs shall be needed to right the balance;
concluding that the defects in legislation which she is, by
reason of her position, more competent to understand, she
should be more competent to remedy. Not these innovations
alone, but others involving matters beyond individual
interests, she expects to achieve by the power she shall
gain through the exercise of her right of suffrage. We
discern, in the consideration of nearly all questions of
national welfare, a disposition to press unduly the
interests of trade and commerce rather than the interests of
the fireside.

Mary Grew presided, and has been elected president of the
association every year from the beginning, performing the duties
of the position with ability, earnestness and satisfaction. In
the winter of 1870-71 the executive committee recommended the
passage of a law that should give married women the control of
their own earnings. The appeal to the legislature in behalf of
such a law was renewed the following winter, and its passage
finally secured. Among the resolutions adopted at the annual
meeting was the following:

_Resolved_, That the vote of the legislature of this State
for a convention to amend the constitution, makes it our
duty to work for the exclusion of the word "male" from the
provision defining the qualifications for the elective
franchise, and that we call upon all friends of justice to
give their best energies to the sustaining of this object.

Subsequently the executive committee prepared a petition with
reference to the formation of the constitutional convention,
asking the legislature, in maki