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MEMORIAL.

TO THE HONORABLE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE CONSTITU-
TIONAL CONVENTION OF UTAH:-

We, your Petitioners an Memorialists, representing the
great majority of the women of Utah; and more particularly as the
official representatives of the great women organizations of Utah
numbering in aggregate membership over thirty five thousand viz.

THE UTAH SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATIONS auxiliary to the NATIONAL
AMERICAN WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION, THE NATIONAL WOMAN'S RE-
LIEF SOCIETY, AND THE YOUNG LADIES' NATIONAL MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT
ASSOCIATION; these thousands of women standing in a general way, or in
virtue of direct official relationship, as our constituents, we,
your memorialists speak in their name; and in behalf of the women
of Utah herewith present the woman's cause.

It is a matter of congratulation that in those closing
years of the 19th Century, the cause woman can, without the
stigma of partisanship, be laid before a body of chosen men or-
dained to the work of creating a new sovereignty within the gal-
axy of States as an equal member of the indissoluble Union. The
men of Utah, in their respective political parties, have with e-
qual unamity said that women shall be accorded equal rights and
privileges of citizenship, that sex distinction shall no longer
be a ban and a bar to equal opportunity with men to exercise the
God given powers and capabilities with which women are endowed for
purpose of equal self government and equal enjoyment of the in-
alienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
We take it that the men of Utah have spoken honestly, sincerely
and conscientiously as true men to that equally large number of