providing for the
regulation and licensing of vice in the cities and towns of the State of
New York will be introduced in the legislature, and that one of the
provisions of the bill is the compulsory medical examination of women
who are inmates of the establishments named therein, we respectfully
submit the following in relation to it:

It puts a premium on the social evil.

It makes this terrible vice a branch of municipal government, and the
state a partner in it.

It inflicts the degradation of compulsory medical examination upon
women, and lets their paramours go free.

It is an outrage upon womanhood, and means the practical slavery of an
unfortunate class of women.

We realize all the shame of the bill, and feel its introduction in the
legislature to be an insult to the great State of New York.

_We emphatically_ PROTEST _against its consideration_, and appeal
to you to use your influence and, if necessary, your votes against this
dreadful and infamous bill.

AGAINST THE EXCISE BILL OF THE STATE LIQUOR DEALERS' ASSOCIATION.

WHEREAS, A bill prepared by the State Liquor Dealers' Association is
before your honorable body, which provides for a Sunday license law
(which means unrestrained liquor on the Sabbath); for special licenses
for certain saloons in certain localities in cities; for the sale of
wine and beer after one o'clock in the morning at public balls and
entertainments given by any incorporated association; abolishes the
requirement of real estate security on license bonds (thus striking a
blow at the civil damage act); and makes it a misdemeanor for any person
to enter a saloon during the hours when it is supposed to be closed in
obedience to the law:

Now, therefore, as every one of the above provisions is a direct blow at
public morality, at law and order, at the peace and happiness of the
home and family, and as this bill means for the state more drunkenness,
more crimes and outrages of every sort, more poverty, more suffering,
more darkened lives and ruined homes, we, the undersigned, citizens
of ----, county of ----, most emphatically protest against its passage,
and we call upon you, our representatives, to use your influence and
vote against it.

The years 1891 and 1892 were not only marked by legislative work, but by
petition work as well. Two successive legislatures had voted to