st
among collegiate and non-collegiate women in furthering the
movement. Large gifts have been bestowed for scholarships and for
colleges, both co-educational and separate. Within the last year
thirty-four women have given $4,446,400 to the cause of
education. Mrs. Stanford's munificent benefactions, and other
lesser ones, swell the amount to more than fifty millions from
women alone. As a result of the struggle for educational freedom,
we have 35,782 women in the colleges of the country.[120]

Educational freedom without political freedom is but partial.
Minerva sprang fully armed from the head of Jove; not only had
she wisdom, but she had the spear and the helmet in her
hands--every weapon of offense and defense to equip her for the
world's conquest. Standing on the threshold of the new century,
we behold the woman of the future thus armed; we see the fully
educated woman possessed of a truer knowledge of the fundamental
principles of government; we see her conscious of her
responsibilities as a citizen, and doing her part in the making
of laws and in the fulfilment of the ideal of democracy.
Educational freedom must lead to political freedom.

Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, a leader among Colorado women, spoke
eloquently on The Social Transformation, following the stages in
evolution expressed in the words, "I dare, I will, I am." Describing
the effects of woman suffrage, she said:

I wish I could make you all understand that the home is not
touched. Equal suffrage does not mean destruction or
disintegration but the radiation of the home--carrying it out
into the wider life of the community. The ideal of the family
must pervade society; and that is what equal suffrage is
gradually bringing about. I know you hear all sorts of things
about woman suffrage in Colorado. Not very long ago certain
Eastern papers gave great prominence to an interview with a
"distinguished citizen of Colorado," who gave a highly
unfavorable account of the workings of woman suffrage there. The
"distinguished citizen" in question was a prize-fighter who had
killed three men--a gambler driven out by woman suffrage; and he
naturally said that woman suffrage was a failure.... The great
Woman's Club of Denver is a power for good in the city; it is
carrying on schools in "the bottoms