en's clubs for the study of
art, literature and political science. We have learned to fraternize.
Men have found that women bring their moral influence into politics,
and the men also know that they must look to their own morals if they
want office. Many questions have been sent to our State asking about
the new conditions. Woman suffrage has proved a success, and the women
can stand with heads erect, shoulder to shoulder with any one, knowing
that they are full, free citizens of the State of Colorado and of the
United States."

Miss Anthony then, by special request, gave a recital of all the facts
connected with her arrest, trial and conviction for voting in 1872.
Miss Shaw introduced her as a criminal, and Miss Anthony retorted,
"Yes, a criminal out of jail, just like a good many of the brethren."
With marvelous power she recalled all the details of that dramatic
episode.

Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway (Ore.) gave an address on How to Win the
Ballot, containing much sound sense. It was published in full by the
Grand Rapids _Democrat_. Mrs. Evelyn H. Belden, president of the Iowa
Equal Suffrage Association, spoke on Women and War, saying:

Did you ever have to live with heroes--with men who have survived
the hardships and dangers of war? One of the reasons for my
mildness in public is that I have to be mild at home. I live with
the heroes of two wars. The elder put down the rebellion--so he
tells me. The younger, for whom I am responsible, has
accomplished an even more perilous feat; he met in mortal combat
every day for six months the product of the commissary department
of our late war. He is still alive, but "kicking"--and so is his
mother!

Note that there were no women on the War Investigating
Commission. Brutal officers, incompetent quartermasters and
ignorant doctors were tried before a jury of their peers. Every
department which was conducted without the help of women has been
for months writhing under the probe of an official investigation,
and is still writhing under the lash of public opinion.

When the war broke out, the women of Iowa, with the suffragists
at their head, cheerfully consecrated themselves to the service
of a State which does not recognize them as the equals of their
own boys. I have one old trunk that made six trips to Chickamauga
Park, filled with delicacies for the soldiers. About August