onths' labor in Los Angeles a vote was taken. For Woman's Suffrage,
eighty-five per cent. voted "Yes," and by a very careful estimate
seventy-five per cent. had put in practice in one form or another the
C.I. Soon San Diego followed Los Angeles, then Pasadena and Riverside,
and soon after all the other towns in Southern California fell in line.
The result was wired all over the State and nation.

During the progress of the movement in Southern California, Mr. and Mrs.
Herne were not idle. They put their hands in their pockets freely, and
paid for much of the printed matter they circulated.

Now that Southern California had gone overwhelmingly for the C.I. Penloe
and Stella, Barker and Brookes, felt at liberty to accept some of the
many urgent calls from other parts of the State. They were continually
receiving calls from other States, but would accept none till the same
condition prevailed throughout the whole State as now existed in
Southern California and the State Legislature had granted to woman the
same legal standing in the eyes of the law that man had.

The next places visited by the workers were Bakersfield, Hanford,
Tulare, Visalia, Fresno, Oakland, and San Francisco. In all these places
they found the work in a more or less advanced state. The fact that
Southern California had gone for the C.I. was a great help in forwarding
the movement in other places, so that after about eight months' work in
these cities just named, and some other places, it was found that the
entire State had been carried for the C.M. and Woman's Suffrage, except
one county. The Legislature was about to meet in a month's time, and
would give to woman the suffrage, and place her, in other respects, on
an equality with man in the eyes of the law.

Great work was being done in the last county, so that it joined the rest
of California for progressive thought, and the whole State was carried
for the C.I. just as the Legislature passed the necessary acts for
woman's legal freedom. The news was wired to every State in the Union,
and California was one scene of rejoicing throughout the entire State.
It was a great day for California when her men and women threw off the
yoke of superstition and ignorance and thus cut some of the bonds which
had held them in ignorance. They had taken one great stride toward the
goal of freedom. California now took her true place among the States in
the Union, for she led the way toward freedom in its highest sens