ls for effective
compulsory education and the proposal for prohibiting night work
and establishing the eight-hour day for minors under eighteen
years of age, be submitted to the organizations of labor and
their cooperation secured.

The frightful slaughter in the Far East shows the imperative need
of enlisting in government the mother element now lacking;
therefore we ask women to use their utmost efforts to secure the
creation of courts of international arbitration which will make
future warfare forever afterwards unnecessary.

We protest against all attempts to deal with the social evil by
applying to women of bad life any such penalties, restrictions or
compulsory medical measures as are not applied equally to men of
bad life; and we protest especially against any municipal action
giving vice legal sanction and a practical license.... We
recommend one moral standard for men and women.

The list of Memorial Resolutions was long and included many prominent
advocates of woman suffrage. Among those of California were Mrs.
Leland Stanford, Judge E. V. Spencer and the veteran workers, Mrs. E.
O. Smith and Sarah Burger Stearns, the latter formerly of Minnesota;
Jas. P. McKinney and Jas. B. Callanan of Iowa; Helen Coffin Beedy of
Maine. Twenty-two names were recorded from Massachusetts, among them
the Hon. George S. Boutwell, President Elmer H. Capen, of Tufts
College; the Hon. William Claflin, the Rev. George C. Lorimer, Mrs.
Ednah D. Cheney; Mrs. Martha E. Root, a Michigan pioneer; Grace Espey
Patton Cowles, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Montana. The Rev.
Augusta Chapin, D. D., Dr. Phoebe J. B. Waite, Bishop Huntington,
James W. Clarke, Dr. Cordelia A. Greene, were among the ten from New
York; Mayor Samuel M. Jones, among seven from Ohio. Five pioneers of
Pennsylvania had passed away, John K. Wildman, Richard P. White, Mrs.
Mary E. Haggart, Miss Matilda Hindman, Miss Anna Hallowell. Cyrus W.
Wyman of Vermont and Orra Langhorne of Virginia were other deceased
pioneers; also Mrs. Rebecca Moore and Mrs. Margaret Preston Tanner,
who were among the earliest workers in Great Britain.

Special resolutions were adopted for Mrs. Mary A. Livermore and U. S.
Senator George F. Hoar of Massachusetts; Col. Daniel R. Anthony of
Kansas; Mrs. Louisa Southworth of Ohio. The eloquent resolutions
prepared by Mr. Blackwell ended: "Never before in a single year hav