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Petition of the WCTU, 1888<br />

PROTECTION OF WOMEN<br />

To the Senate and House of Representatives:<br />

The increasing and alarming frequency of assaults upon women,<br />

and the frightful indignities to which even little girls are subject, have<br />

become the shame of our boasted civilization.<br />

A study of the Statutes has revealed their utter failure to meet the<br />

demands of that newly-awakened public sentiment which requires<br />

better legal protection for womanhood and girlhood.<br />

Therefore we, women of Chesening, State of Michigan, do most<br />

earnestly appeal to you to enact such statutes as shall provide for the<br />

adequate punishment of crimes against women and girls. We also<br />

urge that the age at which a girl can legally consent to her own ruin be<br />

raised to at least eighteen years; and we call attention to the<br />

disgraceful fact that protection of the person is not placed by our laws<br />

upon so high a plane as protection of the purse.<br />

NAMES<br />

(Signed<br />

Names)<br />

RESIDENCES<br />

Mrs. M. J.<br />

Bennett<br />

Chesening[A]<br />

Mrs. S. M.<br />

Gildrirer<br />

Chesening<br />

Mrs. R. Wiernan Chesening<br />

Mrs. J. G. W.<br />

Adams<br />

Chesening<br />

Nettie Burt Chesening<br />

Mrs. A. S.<br />

Burrow<br />

Chesening<br />

I wrote for this petion [sic]<br />

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http://womhist.binghamton.edu/aoc/doc9.htm (2 of 3) [6/5/2005 8:51:28 PM]

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