tdoor relief fund,
not for women to deal with the unfortunate mothers of
illegitimate children....

Women in England, qualified women, have every local vote,
everything which would correspond with your State and municipal
vote here, they have all except the Parliamentary vote.

In England we have opponents, just as you have here. I do not
know whether they are more illogical or less so, but they
certainly do one extraordinary thing--they are in favor of
everything that has been won and take advantage of it. A large
number of the 2,000 women who are sitting on the various local
bodies in England are opposed to the Parliamentary vote for their
sex, and yet they are really in political life. Now, gentlemen,
if you want to have the women stop coming here, give us the vote
and then we won't come; give the "antis" the vote, and then they
will have the political life that they are really longing for.

Almost always, if you analyze the anti-suffrage idea in either a
man or a woman you find it is anti-democratic. I have begun to
think that I am the only good democrat left in America. I believe
in the very widest possible suffrage. Why do I believe it?
Because I have lived and seen the other thing in England, and I
have seen that as democracy broadened politics was purified. That
has been the history from the beginning. No politics in the world
was more corrupt than the English at the beginning of this
century, but as democracy has come farther and farther into the
field, England has become politically one of the purest nations
in the world.

The paper on Woman Suffrage in the British Isles and Colonies was
prepared by Miss Helen Blackburn, editor of the _Englishwoman's
Review_; and Woman Suffrage in Foreign Countries was described by Mrs.
Jessie Cassidy Saunders. The last address was given by Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Catt (N. Y.), Why We Ask for the Submission of an Amendment:

A survey of the changes which have been wrought within the past
hundred years in the status of women--educational, social,
financial and political--fills the observing man or woman with a
feeling akin to awe. No great war has been fought in behalf of
their emancipation; no great political party has espoused their
cause; no heroes have bled and died for their liberty; yet words
fail utterly to