ighteous vested interest which this poor old
world groans under, he would most certainly lose his character
for many years, probably for centuries, not only with the
upholders of the said vested interest, but with the respectable
mass of the people whom he had delivered."

Many changes for the better have been made during the last half
century in the laws, written and unwritten, relating to women.
Everybody approves of these changes now, because they have become
accomplished facts. But not one of them would have been made to
this day if it had been necessary to wait until the majority of
women asked for it. The change now under discussion is to be
judged on its merits. In the light of history the indifference of
most women and the opposition of a few must be taken as a matter
of course. It has no more rational significance than it has had
in regard to each previous step of woman's progress.

Miss Anthony closed with an impassioned argument which profoundly
moved both the committee and the audience. The chairman said that in
all the years there had never been so dignified, logical and perfectly
managed a hearing before the Judiciary, and several of its members
corroborated this statement and assured the ladies present of a full
belief in the justice of their cause. Yet neither the Senate nor the
House Committee made any report or paid the slightest heed to these
earnest and eloquent appeals.

FOOTNOTES:

[112] The Sunday afternoon preceding the convention religious services
were held in the theatre, which was crowded. The sermon was given by
the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, from the text, "One shall chase a thousand
and two put ten thousand to flight."

[113] A most interesting account of that historic occasion may be
found in the History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. I, p. 67.

[114] Federal Suffrage is considered in Chapter I.

[115] David B. Henderson, Ia.; George W. Ray, N. Y.; Case Broderick,
Kan.; Thomas Updegraff, Ia.; James A. Connolly, Ill.; Samuel W.
McCall, Mass.; John J. Jenkins, Wis.; Riehard Wayne Parker, N. J.;
Jesse R. Overstreet, Ind.; DeAlva S. Alexander, N. Y.; Warren Miller,
W. Va.; William L. Terry, Ark.; David A. DeArmond, Mo.; Samuel W. T.
Lanham, Tex.; William Elliott, S. C.; Oscar W. Underwood, Ala.; David
H. Smith, Ky.

[116] The main facts brought out in all these addresses are fully
included in the various State chapters in