of
the State they represented, to the effect that California did not wish
to take the Philippine Islands, but they would take the other islands of
the Pacific, and also they would send Penloe and Stella to make a tour
through the Oriental countries to help forward the work of the Reform
Forces as they saw best. The delegation from California has made
arrangements with the delegation from New Zealand and Australia, so that
the latter take the Philippine Islands as their field of labor, as those
islands are near to them. Therefore the delegation from England and the
other countries who have taken Europe as their field of work, have
kindly consented to release Australia and New Zealand from helping them,
so that they might take the Philippine Islands. It might be well for me
to state that the delegation from California has waited on Penloe and
Stella, to ask them if they would go East, and I am pleased to say that
they have consented."

He added, further: "It is with mingled feelings of pride and pleasure
that I stand to-day as one of the delegates from California. I am proud
to represent that grand State, with its past achievements. Her boast
before has always been of her fertility and marvelous resources, such as
her rich mines, her large wheat fields, her prolific orchards, bearing
fruits belonging to many climes, her fine vineyards, with clusters of
luscious grapes, superior to those of Eschol, her grand floral display,
her great forests, and her oil wells. But now we can boast that in its
genial climate, surrounded by its grand scenery and its lofty peaks,
which lift their heads to heaven, that Stella, the pearl of womanhood,
should be born. It was under these influences, surrounded by advanced
liberal thought that she grew up. On the soil that she was born did she
consecrate herself and all that was dear to her to liberating humanity
from its many bondages. Starting out with the idea of helping those of
her own sex to throw off a bondage which has held them in superstition
and ignorance, and which also has been the cause of untold suffering and
misery as well as millions of deaths, she labored heroically under
social persecution and ostracism. But when the purity and nobility of
her grand character was fully known, those obstacles to her work
disappeared as snow does before the heat of the sun, for her whole
nature being of intense love, its heat melted all prejudices before it.
All of you are familiar with the grand