The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-28
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
WHAT IS WANTED.

Resolutions Adopted by the American wo-
man Suffrage Association at Its TWEEN
tieth Annual Meeting. Held Recently In
Cincinnati.
The American Woman's Suffrage As
ISOLATION, at its twentieth annual meet
ing, affirms that the establishment of q
representative government, based upon
the equal suffrage of men and women,
is superior to all other political issues;
therefore, it declares itself non-parti-
san; it appeals to the good men of all
parties to do justice to women, and it
urges the friends of suffrage to work
and vote for the election of legislators
who will work and vote for woman suf-
frage.
We rejoice in the steady growth Of
public opinion during the past year in
favor of woman's equality, legal and
political; in the good results of suffrage
in Kansas and Wyoming, in the public
spirit of twenty-five thousand Boston
women who have just paid voluntary
tax to vote for school committee, and
in the more active participation of wo-
men than ever before in the Presiden-
tial election.
Whereas, by acts Of Legislature twelve States
have already extended suffrage to women in
school elections, two States on liquor licenses,
and the State Of Kansas on municipal elections;
therefore
Resolred, That in every State the Legislature
should be asked as a first STEP to extend suf-
frage TO women in municipal elections.
And whereas it is expressly declared in Art 9,
Sec. 1. Par. 9, OF the U. s. Constitution, that
leach State shall appoint in such manner as the
Legislature thereof may direct" the Presiden-
tial electors therefore
Resolred That in every State the Legislature
should be asked to extend suffrage to women in
Presidential elections.
ResOlred, That we call upon Congress to sub
NIT to the States sixteenth amendment to the
Federal Constitution. prohibiting disfranchise-
ment on account Of sex.
Resolced, That the action of the Supreme
Court of Washington Territory in declaring wo-
man suffrage unconstitutional is both unsound
In law and an outrage upon justice.
WHEREAS one-half the citizens of Ohio. "of
mature age and sound mind. not convicted Of
crime" are taxed without representation and
governed without their consent in violat on OF
the principles Of the Declaration Of Independ-
ence and of representative government;
And WHEREAS the Legislature OF Ohio has ap-
pointed o commission to decide whether the
State Constitution needs any revision, and II
SO. what amendments are desirable; therefore
Resolved, That the American woman's Suf-
frage Association urgently represents that no
amendment is so desirable and so imperatively
needed as to strike out the word male" from
the suffrage clause Of the Constitution Of Ohio.
Resoired, That to facilitate the work of this
Association a Bureau Of Information or Lecture
Bureau be established at the headquarters Of
she American Woman Suffrage Association, 8
Park Street, Boston, and that all members who
are willing to serve as lecturers or organizers be
to send their names at once to the
Secretary. with permission to place such names
as the Executive Committee may deem advis-
able in special column Of the Womaa's Jour
nal
Resolred, That thanks be extended to the re-
porters and the papers they represent for the
kindly manner in which they have served this
Association. and to the people Of Cincinnati who
have so Hospitality entertained our delegates.-
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