Show womans comans rights A few days ago the national atio nol woman suffrage association held its fifteenth annual convention conventi cn in the tile city of washington D in the sm session ion of wednesday jan the following resolutions were pro dented and subsequently adopted that the women citizens of tho the united states demand tho the right lit to V vote e in order that they may rny rig bo be able di directly to influence legislation for tho the promotion of morality and good government aud the protection of tho the bet interests of their sex that woman aburano rao nicais stable in dilutions happy homes eq equal jaw iw wages ap and equal purity fornies for men and women c eab in ia larger numbers man ever before tile women ot of the lie united states are demanding tho the reneal of arbitrary restrictions which now debar them from tho tile uso use of tho ballot an and d i WHEREAs the recent defeat atin in nebraska of a constitutional amendment g giving ving the women of ofilio tile state the right to vote jewes nver that in comprehension and consequent failure is JS the natural result afan of an appeal to tho masses on a question which ii is bett understood and awl approved by the more intelligent citizens therefore that wo yo call upon this congress TO PASS WITHOUT DELAY a sixteenth amendment to the federal constitution now pending ending in the blending senate nanc which grobi prohibits bV it a the several states from disfranchising franchising dis united q states tates eltZ citizens LII on oil ac account con a t of sex X that the thanks of the national association are due to tho the members of the senate and house commit committees on the claims claim of women citizens for their favorable consideration of lie tile woman suffrage e measures now before them and their unfailing courtesy to those who have urged those measures inea upon their attention Pesol ced that all competitive examinations ami nations for places in the civil ico of tho the united states should be open ell on oil equal terms to citizens of or t both ah sexes and that any so called civil service reform that does the existing unjust discrimination against women employees emal yea and grade grado all salaries on merit and not by sex is a dishonest pretense o at reform WHEREAS alie constitution of the tile united states declared declares that no state shall bo be admitted to tile i he union unless it ii have bave a republican form of government and no true republic can call exist unless all the inhabitants are given equal civil and political rights ther therefore elbre Resol ral that we ne earnestly protest a against the admission of dakota as a state unless the right of suffrage is is secure secured I on oil equal terms to all lier her citizens women as well as men that the proposition to THE WOMEN OF for no cause whatever is a cruel dis play oft of the ie power which lies in amigh alone and that this Cong congress Te has no more right to disfranchise the women of utah than tile men of wyoming 11 the forel foreign ll emigration to o our country is constantly increasing having baving during the past year readied reached the enormous number of half a million of people and whereas two thirds of these foreigners are men ali therefore resolved that it ia of growing ims to give the tile ballot to the women of f tho the country for the nanco of american institutions disfranchisement is is a punishment which a republic ought not to inflict upon its citizens unless they have been guilty of crime and whereas all men regard the DENIAL DIMA L OF POLITICAL TS A I A TION having baving in his bis opinion on the edmunds bill accurately spoken of infamous and degrading penalties of therefore resolved that tho the law abiding taxpaying pay idt women citizens of these united states tes havo not deserved the ins iw friction of this punish punishment ment and do most earnestly demand that they bo be relieved from the cruel cruelties cru ellies ties it imposes upon u pon them by disfranchisement IV frea is during tile war hundreds of women throughout our land entered the service of the nation as a hospital nurses and Wn WHEREAS EnEAS many of these women were disabled by wounds a and d by dis ease while many were redu reduced tc d to permanent invalidism by the hardships they end endured tired therefore lt solved that these women rill should be b placed on tho tile pension list and ro caire suitable means in in consideration of or their services |