her stand, in order to sustain the principle of taxation, these women declared they would use no more tea until the tax upon it was repealed.  This league was first formed by the married women, but the next day the young women met “in innumerable numbers,” and took similar action.  They expressly stated, they did not do this so much for themselves, as for the benefit of their posterity.  In the country, the women of that hour went abroad over the fields and sowed their tea, as men sow wheat.  This action of the women of the revolution was taken three years before the famous Tea Party of Boston harbor, and was the real origin of that “Tea Party.”  The women of the present day, the “posterity” of these women of the revolution, are now following the example then set, and are protesting against taxation without representation.  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.”  Therefore we earnestly protest against the payment of taxes, either Municipal, County, or State, until the ballot secures us in the right of representation, just and equal with other citizens.

     By order of “THE WOMEN TAX PAYERS’ ASSOCIATION of the City of
     Rochester and County of Monroe.”