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President, Mrs. JAS. W. WADSWORTH, Jr. Washington, D. C.

Mrs. LOUIS A. FROTHINGHAM.


 * Boston, Mass.

Mrs. JOHN B. HERON,


 * Pittsburgh, Pa.

Miss ANNE MacILVAINE,


 * Trenton, N. J.

Mrs. HENRY B. THOMPSON,


 * Greenville, Del.

Mrs. N. C. YOUNG,


 * Fargo, N. Dak.

Mrs. EDWARD PORTER PECK,


 * Omaha, Neb.

Mrs. JOHN F. A. MERRILL,


 * Portland, Me.

Mrs. JOHN BALCH,


 * Boston, Mass.

Mrs. HORACE BROCK,


 * Philadelphia, Pa.

Miss ALICE HILL CHITTENDEN


 * New York.

Mrs. ALBERTAS T. DUDLEY,


 * Exeter, N. H.

Mrs. C. H. DAVIS,


 * Washington, D. C.

Mrs. OSCAR LESER,


 * Baltimore, Md.

Mrs. J. B. GILFILLAN,


 * Minneapolis, Minn.

Mrs. ROWLAND G. HAZARD,


 * Peacedale, R. I.

Mrs. E. YARDE BREESE,


 * Trenton, N. J.

Mrs. H. F. LYSTER,


 * Detroit, Mich.

Mrs. DANIEL A. MARKHAM,


 * Hartford, Conn.

Mrs. DAVID CONANT,


 * Bradford, Vt.

Miss CAROLINE PATTERSON,


 * Macon, Ga.

Mrs. FRANCIS D. WILLIAMS,


 * Richmond, Va.

Mrs. H. E. TALBOTT,


 * Dayton, Ohio.

Miss N. W. BAKER,


 * Selma, Ala.

Mrs. F. A. MILLARD,


 * Burlington, Iowa.

Mrs. ERNEST JACKSON,


 * Dallas, S. Dak.

Mrs. JAMES B. WELLS,


 * Brownsville, Texas.

Mrs. D. C. GALLAHER,


 * Charleston, W. Va.

Mrs. C. E. ESTABROOK,


 * Milwaukee, Wis.

December 11, 1917.

Hon. Chas. E. Fuller, M.C.,

Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

Your attention is invited to the following facts:

1. The proposed Federal suffrage amendment positively destroys the right of the people to vote on the question of woman suffrage, as provided for in their State Constitutions, and allows woman suffrage to be forced on unwilling States by the Legislatures of other States.

2. This proposal is a violation of the present Constitution of the United States, which provides that

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. "

3. The people, through their State Constitutions, ratified by popular vote, have reserved the right to adopt or withhold woman suffrage by popular vote.

4. This proposal asks you to rob the people of this right; to repudiate your party platform which recognizes the right of each State to settle this question for itself by popular vote.

Every principle of patriotism, every ideal of self-government, and your oath to defend the Constitution, urges you to vote against the attempt to obtain woman suffrage in spite of the expressed will of the people.