tage of women students in the
colleges is vastly larger than that of men. Meantime most of the
domestic industries have been taken from the home to the factory
and hundreds of thousands of women have followed them there,
while the more highly trained have entered the professions and
other avenues of skilled labor. We demand that under this new
regime, and in view of these changed conditions in which she is
so important a factor woman shall have a voice and a vote in the
solution of their innumerable problems.

The laws of practically every State provide that the husband
shall select the place of residence for the family, and if the
wife refuse to abide by his choice she forfeits her right to
support and her refusal shall be regarded as desertion. We
protest against the recent decision of the courts which has added
to this injustice by requiring the wife also to accept for
herself the citizenship preferred by her husband, thus compelling
a woman born in the United States to lose her nationality if her
husband choose to declare his allegiance to a foreign country.

As women form two-thirds of the church membership of the entire
nation; as they constitute but one-eleventh of the convicted
criminals; as they are rapidly becoming the educated class and as
the salvation of our government depends upon a moral,
law-abiding, educated electorate, we demand for the sake of its
integrity and permanence that women be made a part of its voting
body.

In brief, we demand that all constitutional and legal barriers
shall be removed which deny to women any individual right or
personal freedom which is granted to man. This we ask in the name
of a democratic and a republican government, which, its
constitution declares, was formed "to establish justice and
secure the blessings of liberty."

APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VII.

THE ANTHONY MEMORIAL BUILDING IN ROCHESTER, N.Y.

Shortly after the death of Susan B. Anthony a group of her co-workers
and other friends in Rochester set out to raise a fund for the purpose
of erecting, as a memorial to her, a building for the use of women
students at the University of Rochester. This seemed to them
especially fitting, as Miss Anthony had been intensely interested and
very active in the raising of the Co-education Fund which admitted
women students to t