and all womankind not
suffer thereby.

And so, Miss Anthony, in behalf of the hundreds of colored women
who wait and hope with you for the day when the ballot shall be
in the hands of every intelligent woman; and also in behalf of
the thousands who sit in darkness and whose condition we shall
expect those ballots to better, whether they be in the hands of
white women or black, I offer you my warmest gratitude and
congratulations.

Mrs. Thompson presented $200 from the District of Columbia, with the
following affectionate tribute:

....In behalf of the Suffragists of the District of Columbia,
both men and women, I am happy to say I am deputized to present
to you a gift which expresses their regard and love for you as
well as their appreciation of the almost superhuman efforts you
have made for the past fifty years to secure justice and civil
and political equality for women.

The gift is in the form of what is often called "the sinews of
war"--money. Not coarse, dead cash, such as passes from hand to
hand in everyday transactions, but money every penny of which is
alive with sincere thanks and earnest, loving wishes for
happiness and continued success in all your endeavors....

We do not hail you, love you, as one who has made woman's life
easier, strewn it with more rose leaves of idleness, shielded it
from more stress and storm, but as one who has taken the grander,
truer view, that by equally sharing stress and storm, by equal
effort and work, by equality in rights, privileges, powers and
opportunities with her other self--man--woman will evolve and
will reach her loftiest, loveliest development. Not as an apostle
of ease, parasitism and shrinking fear do we regard you, but as
the apostle, the incarnation, of work, of high courage and
deathless endeavor.

We wish our gift were myriad-fold greater, but it would never
express more appreciation of what you stand for and what you
are--a _Liberator of Woman_.

Mrs. Helen M. Warren, wife of the Senator from Wyoming, speaking in a
fine, resonant voice which would do credit to any legislative hall,
read the poem written by Miss Phoebe Cary for the celebration of Miss
Anthony's fiftieth birthday, presented her with a brooch, a little
American flag, made of gold and jewels, and said: "I feel honored on
this, y