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public school, — not in some States, but in every State ; till the 

 corporation laws of a single Commonwealth may no longer be a 

 national menace alike to honest finance and equitable taxation in 

 every other Commonwealth; till the American home, guarded alike 

 by rigid divorce laws in most States, may not be subject to the 

 dailj^ menace of a condition under which the looseness of mar- 

 riage ties punished as vice in New England is hailed as virtue 

 in other sections of our country. 



We seek in these meetings not an organization for a sectional 

 attack on the funds of the national treasury, but expert knowledge, 

 that, still self-reliant as in the days of the Puritan, the cosmo- 

 politan people of New England may aid themselves through New 

 England legislation and New England public opinion to better con- 

 ditions, both moral and material. 



Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness! The eighteenth 

 century gave our country life; the nineteenth century liberty. It 

 is for the twentieth century to ensure that the pursuit of happi- 

 ness should be made easier and on more even terms for every 

 American citizen. 



