A few weeks ago I attended a meeting of the tax-paying
women of Rochester who met in the Mayor's office in that city, and
there, like their revolutionary mothers, formed a league against
taxation without representation. Meetings for the discussion of measures
are regularly held by them, and they have issued an address, which I
will read you.
_To the Women of the City of Rochester and the County of Monroe_:
After twenty-five years of discussion, appeal and work, the Women
of Rochester assembled, are prompted to advise and urge tax-paying
women of the City and County, that the time has come to act, as our
patriot mothers acted in 1770, _in protest against unjust
government_, and the action appropriate and suited to the time, is
strong and earnest protest against the violation of the Republican
principles, which compels the payment of taxes by women, while they
are denied the ballot.
By order of "THE WOMEN TAX PAYERS' ASSOCIATION of the City of
Rochester and County of Monroe."
They have also issued this memorial and protest, addressed
_To the Board of Supervisors of the County of Monroe, and to the
Hon. the Common Council of the City of Rochester_:
The payment of taxes is exacted in direct violation of the
principles that "Governments derive their just powers from the
consent of the governed," and that "there shall be no taxation
without representation.
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