orsed our
movement to gain the ballot for all women.

That we deeply deplore the exploiting of the children of this
country in our labor markets to the detriment and danger of
coming generations; that we commend the action of Congress in the
creation of a National Children's Bureau and President Taft's
appointment of a woman, Miss Julia Lathrop, as head of the
bureau.

That we commend the efforts of our National Government to end
the white slave traffic; that we urge the passage in our States
of more stringent laws for the protection of women; that we
demand the same standard of morals for men and women and the same
penalties for transgressors; that we call upon women everywhere
to awake to the dangers of the social evil and to hasten the day
when women shall vote and when commercialized vice shall be
exterminated.

A unique feature of the convention was Men's Night, with James Lees
Laidlaw of New York, president of the National Men's League for Woman
Suffrage of 20,000 members, in the chair and all the speeches made by
men. Miss Blackwell said editorially in the _Woman's Journal_: "From
the very beginning of the equal rights movement courageous and
justice-loving men have stood by the women and have been invaluable
allies in the long fight that is now nearing its triumph but never
before have been actually organized to work for the cause. Men old and
young, men of the most diverse professions, parties and creeds, spoke
with equal earnestness in behalf of equal rights for women." The
speakers were the Hon. Frederick C. Howe, Judge Dimner Beeber,
president of the Pennsylvania League; A. S. G. Taylor of the
Connecticut League; Joseph Fels, the Single Tax leader; Julian Kennedy
of Pittsburgh; George Foster Peabody of New York; the Rev. Wm. R. Lord
of Massachusetts; Jesse Lynch Williams, J. H. Braly of California and
Reginald Wright Kauffman. The last named, whose recently published
book, The House of Bondage, had aroused the country on the "white
slave traffic," discussed this question as perhaps it never before had
been presented in public and he found a sympathetic audience.

The Rev. James Grattan Mythen, of the Prince of Peace Church,
Walbrook, Md., made a strong demand for the influence of women in the
electorate, in which he said: "Whatever wrongs the law allows must not
be laid entirely at the door of paid public servants whom by the
fr