thout
representation and governed without consent--and this in a nation
which by its Constitution guarantees equal rights to all the
States and equal protection to all their citizens--must soon be
manifest even to the most conservative and prejudiced. We
therefore congratulate the friends of woman suffrage everywhere
that at last there is one spot under the American flag where
equal justice is done to women. Wyoming, all hail; the first true
republic the world has ever seen!

The program attracted considerable attention from a design on the
cover showing a woman yoked with an ox to the plow, and, looking down
upon them a girl in a college cap and gown with the inscription,
"Above the Senior Wrangler," referring to the recent victory at
Cambridge University, England, by Philippa Fawcett, in outranking the
male student who stood highest in mathematics. The first session was
opened by the singing of Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert's inspiring
hymn, The New America. After a welcome by Mrs. Ella M. S. Marble,
president of the District W. S. A., Miss Anthony read the address of
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was in England, entitled, The
Degradation of Disfranchisement, which said in part:

Disfranchisement is the last lingering shadow of the old spirit
of caste which always has divided humanity into classes of
greater or less inferiority, some even below certain animals that
were considered special favorites with Heaven. One can not
contemplate these revolting distinctions among mankind without
amazement and disgust. This spirit of caste which has darkened
the lives of millions through the centuries still lives. The
discriminations against color and sex in the United States are
but other forms of this same hateful spirit, still sustained by
our religion as in the past. It is the outgrowth of the false
ideas of favoritism ascribed to Deity in regard to races and
individuals, but which have their origin in the mind of man.
Banish the idea of divine authority for these machinations of the
human mind, and the power of the throne and the church, of a
royal family and an apostolic order of succession, of kings and
queens, of popes and bishops, and man's headship in the State,
the Church, and the Home will be heard of no more forever....

All men of intelligence appreciate the power of holding the