iation, said that she represented ten
thousand working women of New England, and they had instructed
her as their representative to introduce a resolution looking to
the amelioration of the condition of the working women.

Senator WILSON spoke as follows: This is a rather new place for
me to stand, and yet I am very glad to say that I have no new
views in regard to this question. I learned fifteen or twenty
years ago something about this reform in its earliest days, when
the excellent people, who have labored so long with so much
earnestness and fidelity, first launched it before the country. I
never knew the time in the last fifteen or twenty years that I
was not ready to give my wife the right to vote if she wanted it.
I believe in the Declaration of Independence in its full scope
and meaning; believing it was born of Christianity; that it came
from the teachings of the New Testament; and I am willing to
trust the New Testament and the Declaration of Independence
anywhere on God's earth, and to adopt their doctrine in the
fullest and broadest manner. I do not know that all the good in
the world will be accomplished when the women of the United
States have the right to vote. But it is sure to come. Truth is
truth, and will stand.

Mrs. ERNESTINE L. ROSE referred to the assertion of the Rev. Mr.
Haven, that the seeds of the Woman's Rights reform were sown in
Massachusetts, and proceeded to disprove it. Thirty-two years ago
she went round in New York city with petitions to the Legislature
to obtain for married women the right to hold property in their
own names. She only got five names the first year, but she and
others persevered for eleven years, and finally succeeded. Who,
asked Mrs. Rose, was the first to call a National Convention of
women--New York or Massachusetts? [Applause.] I like to have
justice done and honor given where it is due.

Mrs. SARAH F. NORTON, of the New York Working Woman's
Association, referring to the former attempt to exclude the
discussion of the relations of capital and labor, argued that the
question was an appropriate one in any Woman's Rights Convention,
and proposed that some member of the New York Working Women's
Association be heard on that point.

Mrs. ELEANOR KIRK accordingly described the beginning