until we concentrate all our money and editorial forces
upon one great national daily newspaper, so we can sauce back our
opponents every day in the year; once a month or once a week is not
enough.

The resolutions presented by the chairman, Mrs. Dietrick, were adopted
without dissent,[94] except the last:

WHEREAS, The Constitution of the United States promises
noninterference with the religious liberty of the people; and

WHEREAS, Congress is now threatening to abridge the liberties of
all in response to ecclesiastical dictation from a portion of the
people; therefore,

_Resolved_, That this association enters a protest against any
national attempt to control the innocent inclinations of the
people either on the Jewish Sabbath or the Christian Sunday, and
this we do quite irrespective of our individual opinions as to
the sanctity of Sunday.

_Resolved_, That we especially protest against this present
attempt to force all the people to follow the religious dictates
of a part of the people, as establishing a precedent for the
entrance of a most dangerous complicity between Church and State,
thereby subtly undermining the foundation of liberty, so
carefully laid by the wisdom of our fathers.

This precipitated the discussion as to the opening of the World's Fair
on Sunday which had been vigorously waged during two preceding
conventions without resulting in definite action. It was now continued
during three sessions and then, by majority vote, indefinitely
postponed. Mrs. Avery, chairman of the Columbian Exposition
Committee,[95] closed her report as follows: "As we are to be
represented in so many ways during the World's Fair--i. e., at the
World's Congress of Representative Women, in the Suffrage Congresses,
in the meetings to be held in the auditorium of the Woman's Building,
in the program to be presented by us for the approval of the Committee
on General Meetings of the Board of Lady Managers--I would strongly
urge against attempting to hold a separate Suffrage Congress, either
national or international, during the Exposition." This was agreed to.

The Congressional Committee, through Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton,
reported that 375 letters had been sent to members of Congress asking
for an expression on the question of woman suffrage. Of those who
responded fifty-nine were in favor of full suffrage; twenty-five of
qualified suffrag