rage, is compelling them to
swell the number of their tyrants and is an unwarrantable
usurpation of power over one-half the citizens of this republic.

WHEREAS, In President Hayes' last message, he makes a truly
paternal review of the interests of this republic, both great and
small, from the army, the navy and our foreign relations, to the
ten little Indians in Hampton, Va., our timber on the western
mountains, and the switches of the Washington railroads; from the
Paris Exposition, the postal service, the abundant harvests, and
the possible bulldozing of some colored men in various southern
districts, to cruelty to live animals and the crowded condition of
the mummies, dead ducks and fishes in the Smithsonian
Institute--yet forgets to mention 20,000,000 women robbed of their
social, civil and political rights; therefore

_Resolved_, That a committee of three be appointed to wait upon the
President and remind him of the existence of one-half the American
people ....

WHEREAS, All the vital principles involved in the Thirteenth,
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments have been denied in their
application to women by courts, legislatures and political parties;
therefore

_Resolved_, That it is logical that these amendments should fail to
protect even the male African for whom said courts, legislatures
and parties declare they were expressly designed and enacted.

WHEREAS, The general government has refused to exercise federal
power to protect women in their right to vote in the various States
and Territories; therefore

_Resolved_, That it should forbear to exercise federal power to
disfranchise the women of Utah, who have had a more just and
liberal spirit shown them by Mormon men than Gentile women in the
States have yet received from their rulers.

WHEREAS, The proposed legislation for Chinese women on the Pacific
slope and for outcast women in our cities, and the opinion of the
press that no respectable woman should be seen in the streets after
dark, are all based upon the presumption that woman's freedom must
be forever sacrificed to man's license; therefore

_Resolved_, That the ballot in woman's hand is the only power by
which she can restrain the liberty of those men who make our
streets and highways dangerous to her, and secure the freedom which
belong