, and the shame of it, when some of us women, who do
feel the importance of the duty of suffrage and who need no man to
teach us patriotism, wish to help in this work that any man should say
us nay!"

Miss Florence Balgarnie, who brought the greetings of a number of
great English associations,[83] gave a comprehensive sketch of The
Status of Women in England. The Rev. Ida C. Hultin (Ills.) followed in
an eloquent appeal that there should be no headship of either man or
woman alone, but that both should represent humanity; government is a
development of humanity and if woman is human she has an equal right
in that development. Mrs. Ellen Battelle Dietrick (Mass.) showed that
the present supremacy of men was a reaction from the former undue
supremacy of women, and brought out many historical points of deep
interest. Mrs. Josephine K. Henry spoke on The Kentucky Constitutional
Convention, illustrating the terrible injustice of the laws of that
State in regard to women and the vain efforts of the latter to have
them changed. The Rev. Frederick A. Hinckley (R. I.) lifted the
audience to the delectable heights, taking as a text, "Husband and
Wife are One." After illustrating the tendency of all nature and all
science toward unity and harmony, he said:

Humanity is the whole. Men alone are half a sphere; women alone
half a sphere; men and women together the whole of truth, the
whole of love, the whole of aspiration. We have come to recognize
this thought in nearly all the walks of life. We want to
acknowledge it in the unity of mankind. The central thought we
need in our creeds and in our lives is that of the solidarity and
brotherhood of the race. This movement derives its greatest
significance not because it opens a place here and there for
women; not because it enables women to help men; but because in
all the concerns of life it places man and woman side by side,
hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, putting their best thought,
their finest feeling, their highest aspiration, into the work of
the world. This reflection gives us a lasting and sublime
satisfaction amid defeat and derision. Whatever of fortune or
misfortune befalls the Suffrage Association in the carrying on of
its work, this belief is the root which is calculated to sustain
and inspire us--that this movement is the next step in the
progress of the race towards the unific