ation of humanity....

I look forward to the time when men and women, labor and capital,
all classes and all sections, shall work side by side with one
great co-operative spirit, the denizens of the world and the
keepers of human progress. When that time comes we may not have
reached the millennium but we shall be nearer to it. We shall
then together establish justice, temperance, purity of life, as
never has been done before. Earth's aspirations then shall grow
to events. The indescribable--that shall then be done.

U. S. Senator Joseph M. Carey was introduced by Miss Anthony as "the
man who on the floor of Congress fought Wyoming's battle for
Statehood." His address on Wyoming, the True Republic, was a leading
feature of the convention. He said in part:

On the tenth day of July last, the State of Wyoming was born and
the forty-fourth star took its place on the old flag. Never was
first-born more warmly welcomed, for not only had a commonwealth
been created, but the principle of equality of citizenship
without regard to sex had been fully recognized and incorporated
as a part of the constitution of the new State.

The adoption of a woman suffrage bill by the first Territorial
Legislature was graphically described, and after relating the
subsequent efforts for its repeal, and its incorporation finally into
the State constitution, he told of the struggle in Congress and said:

While I would not make invidious distinctions by giving the names
of those in both branches of Congress who favored Wyoming's
admission, I wish to say that I was agreeably surprised to have
many of the ablest members, both in public and private, disclose
the fact that they firmly believed the time would come when women
would be permitted to exercise full political rights throughout
the United States. They rejoiced that an opportunity had
presented itself by which they could show they had no prejudice
or opposition in their hearts to women's exercising the rights of
citizenship.

He closed with the following strong argument for the enfranchisement
of women:

Suffrage should be granted to women for two reasons: first,
because it will help women; and second, because it will promote
the interests of the State. Whatever doubt I may have entertained
in the past concerning either the first or second propositi