daughter of Methuselah, or whether her bonnet came from the Ark
or from the most fashionable man milliner's.

There are women's clubs all over the country; did you ever hear
of one organized for other than an uplifting purpose? (Several
voices: "Yes, the Anti-Suffrage Associations!") Well, even the
"antis" wish to keep the world just as it is; they do not aim to
make it worse. Some persons have tried to belittle the resolution
passed by the Colorado Legislature recently, testifying to the
good results of equal suffrage, by declaring that the members
were afraid of the women. I never heard before of a Legislature
that voted solidly in a certain way for fear of women. We have
with us to-day Mrs. Welch, the president of the Colorado Equal
Suffrage Association, of whom it is said that the Legislature was
so afraid. [Miss Anthony led forward Mrs. Welch, a pretty little
woman in a very feminine bonnet, who shrank away slightly from
the compelling hand, and showed shyness in every line of her
figure, as she felt the eyes of the audience' concentrated upon
her.] At the time of the first recognition of women in the early
Granger days, when the farmers used to harness up their horses to
their big wagons and take all their women folks to the meetings,
I used to say that I could tell a Grange woman as far off as I
could see her, because of her air of feeling herself as good as a
man. Now look at this woman from Colorado!

MRS. WELCH: When I came before the Executive Committee this
morning, and they said they were proud of me as a free woman, I
felt almost ashamed to be a free woman. I thought of all the
tears and sorrows and struggles of Miss Anthony and wondered if
she ever would possess the ballot for which she had done so much,
and I so little.

MISS ANTHONY: I am glad you have it. We are not working for
ourselves alone; that is one reason why our society does not grow
as fast as some others.

The paper of the Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer (R. I.) was a strong,
philosophical presentation of our Duty to the Women of Our New
Possessions:

....Prof. Otis T. Mason, author of that important book, "Woman's
Share in Primitive Culture," tells us that "the longer one
studies the subject the more he will be convinced that savage
tribes can now be elevated chiefly