ury, but the starlight is
clearer than the morning of its existence. I look back and see in
each year improvement and advancement. I see woman gathering up
her soul and personality and claiming them as her own against all
odds and the world. I see her asking that this personality may
be impressed upon her nation. I see her speaking her soul from
platforms, preaching in pulpits of a life of which this is the
shadow. I see her pleading before courts, using her brains to
solve the knotty questions of the law. Woman's sphere is the wide
world, her sceptre the mind that God has given her, her kingdom
the largest place that she has the brains to fill and the will to
hold. So is woman influencing the world, and as her sphere widens
the world grows better. With the freedom she now has, see how she
is arousing the public conscience on all questions of right....

What is conservatism? It is the dying faith of a closing century.
What is fanaticism? It is the dawning light of a new era. Yes, a
new era will dawn with the twentieth century. I look to that time
and see woman the redeeming power of the world.

Mrs. Pearson of Nottingham gave a glowing account of the progress of
suffrage in England and the work of the Primrose League; Madame Clara
Neymann (N. Y.) made a scholarly address entitled Skeptics and
Skepticism; Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby (Neb.), the Rev. Rush R. Shippen
of Washington City and Miss Phoebe W. Couzins (Mo.) were among the
speakers. Delegate Joseph M. Carey (Wy.) said in the course of his
address:

Eighteen years ago the right of suffrage was given to the women
of Wyoming. Women have voted as universally and as
conscientiously as men. I have had the honor of voting for women
and of being voted for by them. There are not three per cent. of
women old enough who do not vote in every part of the Territory.
In intelligence, beauty, grace, in perfection of home and social
duties, the women of Wyoming will compare favorably with those of
any other State. I have been asked if they neglect home affairs
on account of politics. I have never known an instance of this. I
have never known a controversy to arise from the wives voting
differently from their husbands, which they often do. If women
could vote in the States to-day they would vote as wisely as
men....

I will say