Indiana, and Massachusetts have been especially abundant in
labor. Ohio has thirty-one local societies, Indiana
twenty-five, and Massachusetts five. These States have had a
force of excellent speakers in the field, who, with rare
self-forgetting, have worked as only those can who work with
whole-hearted faith for immortal principles.

Under the auspices of this Association, a canvass was made
in the State of Vermont. The sole reason which induced the
Executive Committee to undertake this special work was that
the Council of Censors had submitted a proposition that
"henceforth women may vote, and with no other restrictions
than are prescribed for men." A Vermont State Woman Suffrage
Association was organized, auxiliary to the American
Society.

The speech of Mr. Curtis at our May mass meeting, so
admirable in style and substance we have published in a
tract entitled "Fair Play for Women." Thousands of copies
have been sent to all parts of the United States. It is
doing its silent work by quiet firesides, where hard-working
men and women, who can never attend a convention, can find
time to read. We have published seven tracts, which had
previously been sold at $5.00 a hundred, at the actual cost
of $2.00 per hundred, and keep them constantly for sale at
these low prices. They have been scattered broadcast, and
the good seed thus sown will bear fruit in due season.

There has been steady progress in our ideas during the whole
year. The _Woman's Journal_, established last January, and
since consolidated with the _Woman's Advocate_, of Ohio, is
constantly increasing its circulation, more than a thousand
new subscribers having been added within a single month.

One of the most significant signs of progress is found in
the recent action of the Republican party in Massachusetts.
Their State Convention unanimously admitted Mary A.
Livermore and Lucy Stone, who were regularly accredited
delegates from the towns of Melrose and West Brookfield. A
resolution in favor of making woman suffrage part of the
platform was reported by the Committee on Resolutions. A