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 perceived in their rulers.

WHEREAS, The proposed legislation for the 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 licence;
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
that belongs to her by day and by night.

[Illustration: Frances E. Willard]

At the close of the convention it was decided at a meeting of the
executive committee to present an address to the president and both
houses of congress, and that a printed copy of the resolutions
should be laid on the desk of every member. The president having
granted a hearing,[46] the following address was presented:

_To his Excellency, the President of the United States_:

WHEREAS, Representatives of associations of women waited upon
your excellency before the delivery of your first and second
annual messages, asking that in those documents you would
remember the disfranchised millions of citizens of the United
States; and,

WHEREAS, Upon careful examination of those messages, we find
therein specifically enumerated, the interests, great and small,
of all classes of men, and recommendations of needful legislation
to protect their civil and political rights, but find no mention
made of any need of legislation to protect the political, civil,
or social rights of one-half of the people of this republic, and,

WHEREAS, There is pending in the Senate a constitutional
amendment to prohibit the several States from disfranchising
United States citizens on account of sex, and a similar amendment
is pending upon a tie vote in the House Judiciary Committee; and
as petitions to so amend the constitution have been presented to
both houses of congress from more than 40,000 well-known citizens
of thirty-five States and five territor