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Ogden City,

March 13th, 1895.

To the Honorable President and Members of the Constitu-
tional Convention of Utah.

Gentlemen, -

We the undersigned delegates in behalf of the women
of Ogden City and Weber County, beg most respectfully to mem-
orialize your honorable body, and ask that the action of your
honorable committee on Elections and Suffrage in reporting
favorably on the right of suffrage and equal rights, being
granted to the women of Utah be sustained, and that the Article
adopted by said Committee be incorporated in the constitution
by the unanimous vote of the convention.

Both political parties in their declaration of prin-
ciples last fall pledged themselves to grant full suffrage to
women, and we feel assured that you will honor the pledge thus
made.

Our great Creator has endowed women with the same
attributes and power of mind possessed by man, hence her right
to equal priviliges and opportunities under the laws and in
the government of the nation of which she is a member. Woman
has been denied her rights in the past, but toward the close
of the 19th century her rights, her merits and worth are being
better understood and appreciated, which is evidenced by the
fact of the suffrage being granted her in many States of the
Union, as well as in some parts of Europe. And it will, be-
yond all question, reflect credit and honor upon the framers
of the Constitution to provide that the mother, wife and sis-
ter shall have a voice in the conduct of the affairs of the
state of Utah eqaul to fathers, husband or brother.

We claim we are loyal to our government and our Country.