ll of nations? The lack of
morality in government. It will eat out the life of a nation as
it does the heart of an individual. This question of woman's
equal rights, equal duties, equal responsibilities, is the
greatest which has come before us. The destiny of the whole race
is comprised in four things: Religion, education, morals,
politics. Woman is a religious being; she is becoming educated;
she has a high code of morals; she will yet purify politics.

I want to impress upon the audience this thought, that every man
is a direct factor in the legislation of this land. Every woman
is not a direct factor, but yet is more or less responsible for
every evil existing in the community. I have nothing but pity for
that woman who can fold her hands and say she has all the rights
she wants. How can she think of the great problem God has given
us to solve--to redeem the race from superstition and crime--and
not want to put her hand to the wheel of progress and help move
the world?

Mrs. Hannah Whitall Smith (Penn.) pronounced the benediction at the
closing session.

Sixteen States were represented at this Nineteenth convention, and
reports were sent from many more. Mrs. Sewall, chairman of the
executive committee, presented a comprehensive report of the past
year's work, which included appeals to many gatherings of religious
bodies. Conventions had been held in each congressional district of
Kansas and Wisconsin. She referred particularly to the completion of
the last of the three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage by Miss
Anthony, Mrs. Stanton and Mrs. Gage. An elaborate plan of work was
adopted for the coming year, which included the placing of this
History in public libraries, a continuation of the appeals to
religious assemblies, the appointment of delegates to all of the
approaching national political conventions, and the holding by each
vice-president of a series of conventions in the congressional
districts of her State. It was especially desired that arrangements
should be made for the enrollment in every State of the women who want
to vote, and Mrs. Colby was appointed to mature a suitable plan.

Among the extended resolutions adopted were the following:

WHEREAS, For the first time a vote has been taken in the Senate
of the United States on an amendment to the National Constitution
enfranchising women; and