e.

The leaders of advanced thought in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Idaho
were very active in working for the C.I. All these States having granted
woman the suffrage before the C.M. was started, the workers found it
easy to get them to follow California in the grand procession for
freedom.

Wyoming, which was the first to grant the suffrage to woman, was the
next to join California; then came Colorado, then Utah, and then Idaho
wheeled into line.

Penloe and Stella were receiving calls to labor from other States, and
finally decided to go to Illinois. Kansas wired the following message to
the Central Committee of California: "Kansas is all ablaze with the C.M.
from its center to its circumference, and its fires have leaped the
borders into Nebraska, Iowa, and reached Minnesota."

After the C.I. had been practised in Southern California a few months,
if a young gentleman had just returned to the East from Los Angeles, his
friends wanted to know immediately how the C.I. worked.

Mr. Franklin Hart, of New York, a young gentleman who had just returned
from Los Angeles, was sitting in a parlor with some young friends, and
they all wanted him to relate his impressions of the C.I. in Los
Angeles. When he was describing its workings, two or three young ladies
put their hands to their faces and laughed, one saying, "How strange and
funny it must have seemed." Another young lady remarked, "There has been
too much foolishness about such things." Mr. Franklin Hart said: "After
you have been there about a week the old idea seems stranger than the
new. You wonder to yourself however such thoughts could have fastened
themselves on us for generations and generations."

Prof. Dawson, of Boston, visited Los Angeles two years after the C.I.
had been in operation, and wrote a letter to the leading Boston daily,
as follows:

"DEAR SIR: Being naturally of a conservative turn of
mind, I came to Los Angeles with ideas unfavorable to
the C.M. I had not taken the least stock in what the
papers said or the people of California wrote in regard
to the practical workings of the C.I. I expected the
defenses of morality and modesty had been swept away by
such ideas, and that the communities of Southern
California had sunk into licentiousness. I had spent
two years in California about eight years ago, and I
considered at that time that the morals of the people
were not of a high