elighted, and did not suspect that I was talking suffrage. They
don't know what woman suffrage is. They think it only means to
berate the men. In this way I have perhaps done the best suffrage
work I possibly could.

Later in the session Miss Anthony made her report as delegate from
the National Council of Women of the United States to this
International Congress in London, in which she said:

During the last seventeen years there has been a perfect
revolution in England. When Mrs. Stanton and I went there for the
first time, in 1883, just a few families were not afraid of
us--the Brights, Peter Taylor's household, and some of the old
abolitionists who knew all about us. When it was proposed to get
up a testimonial meeting for us, even the officers of the
suffrage societies did not dare to sign the invitation. They
thought we Americans were too radical....

This time when we reached London we were the recipients of
testimonials not only from the real, radical suffrage people, but
also from the conservatives. At that magnificent Queen's Hall
meeting of the Suffrage Association, with Mrs. Fawcett presiding,
three or four thousand people packed the hall. It was a
representative gathering. Australia and New Zealand were there to
speak for themselves, and they had me to speak for the United
States. I tried to have them call on Miss Shaw instead, but they
would not do it....

Every young woman who is to-day enjoying the advantages of free
schools and opportunities to earn a living and the other enlarged
rights for women, is a child of the woman suffrage movement. This
larger freedom has broadened and strengthened women wonderfully.
At the end of the Council, Lady Aberdeen, who had been its
president for six years, in a published interview summing up the
work of the women who had been present, said there was no denying
that the English-speaking women stood head and shoulders above
all the others in their knowledge of Parliamentary law, and that
at the very top were those of the United States and Canada--the
two freest parts of the world. I said: "If the women of the
United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged
liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical
forms of government, then there is no good in liberty." It is