the chairman of the
Committee on Privileges and Elections, Senator Wadleigh of New
Hampshire, against a sixteenth amendment to secure the political
rights of woman in its weakness, shows the strength of our
reform.

_Resolved_, That the national effort to force citizenship on the
Indians, the decision of Judge Sawyer in the United States
Circuit Court of California against the naturalization of the
Chinese, and the refusal of congress to secure the right of
suffrage to women, are class legislation, dangerous to the
stability of our institutions.

WHEREAS, Woman's rights and duties in all matters of legislation
are the same as those of man.

_Resolved_, That the problems of labor, finance, suffrage,
international rights, internal improvements, and other great
questions, can never be satisfactorily adjusted without the
enlightened thought of woman, and her voice in the councils of
the nation.

_Resolved_, That the question of capital and labor is one of
special interest to us. Man, standing to woman in the position of
capitalist, has robbed her through the ages of the results of her
toil. No just settlement of this question can be attained until
the right of woman to the proceeds of her labor in the family and
elsewhere is recognized, and she is welcomed into every industry
on the basis of equal pay for equal work.

_Resolved_, That as the first duty of every individual is
self-development, the lessons of self-sacrifice and obedience
taught woman by the Christian church have been fatal, not only to
her own vital interests, but through her, to those of the race.

_Resolved_, That the great principle of the Protestant
Reformation, the right of individual conscience and judgment
heretofore exercised by man alone, should now be claimed by
woman; that, in the interpretation of Scripture, she should be
guided by her own reason, and not by the authority of the church.

_Resolved_, That it is through the perversion of the religious
element in woman--playing upon her hopes and fears of the future,
holding this life with all its high duties in abeyance to that
which is to come--that she and the children she has trained have
been so completely subjugated by priestcraft and superstition.

This was the last convention ever attended by Lu