e clans of freedom."

Major Hudson, in his address of welcome in behalf of the city,
reviewed the history of woman suffrage in Kansas, paid a tribute to
the work of the pioneer suffragists, and said:

We welcome you to Kansas, because it has been good battle-ground
for the right.... We place the ballot in the hands of the
foreigner who can not read or speak our language, and who knows
nothing of our government; we enfranchised a slave race, most of
whom can not read; and yet we deny to the women of America the
ballot, which in their hands would be the strongest protection of
this republic against the ignorance and vice of the great centers
of our population. Give to woman the ballot, and you give her
equal pay with men for the same work; you break down prejudice
and open to her every vocation in which she is competent to
engage; you do more--you give her an individuality, and equal
right in life.

The president, the Hon. William Dudley Foulke, in his response to the
welcome of the suffrage association said: "It gives us great pleasure
to visit your beautiful city and fertile State. It gives us pleasure
not because your State is fertile and your city beautiful but because
it is in these Western States that there is most hope of the growth of
the woman suffrage movement. The older States are what old age is in
the human frame, something that is difficult to change; but where
there is young blood there is hope and the progress of a new idea is
more rapid."

Mrs. Howe, responding to the welcome of the citizens, said some one
had spoken of woman suffrage as a hobby; she questioned whether the
opposition to suffrage was not the hobby and suffrage the horse. The
discussion of these great questions was doing much to make the women
of the country one in feeling, and to do away with sectional
prejudices. A most cordial hearing was given to the Woman's Congress
lately held at Louisville, Ky., and especially to the woman suffrage
symposium which occupied one evening. Mrs. Howe spoke of the
wonderful, providential history of Kansas, and the way in which a new
and unexpected chapter of the country's history opened out from the
experience of the young Territory. She remembered when the name of
Kansas was the word which set men's blood at the East tingling. She
continued:

You men of Kansas, you who have been bought with a price, noble
men have worked and suff