n nearly every State in the Union, and every Territory
except the Indian and Alaska and we shall have them next year."

An able address was given by Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby (D. C.) on The
Philosophy of Woman Suffrage, in which she said:

Woman suffrage is in harmony with the evolution of the race. The
progress of civilization has developed the finer forces of
mankind and made ready for the entrance of woman into government.
As long as man was merely a slayer of men and animals he did not
feel the need of the co-partnership of woman, but as his
fatherhood was developed he felt his inadequacy and the necessity
of the maternal element by his side. Woman suffrage is in harmony
with the growth of the idea of the worth of the individual, which
has its best expression in our republic. Our nation is heir of
all the struggles for freedom which have been made....

The Magna Charta belongs to us as much as does the Declaration of
Independence. In all these achievements for liberty women have
borne their share. Not only have they inspired men but the record
of the past is illumined with the story of their own brave deeds.
Women love liberty as well as men do. The love of liberty is the
corollary of the right of consent to government. All the progress
of our nation has been along the line of extending the
application of this basic idea....

Woman suffrage is in harmony with the evolution in the status of
women. They always have done their share in the development of
the race. There always has been a "new woman," some one stepping
out in advance of the rest and gaining a place for others to
stand upon.... We have no cause to blush for our ancestors. We
may save our blushes for the women of to-day who do not live up
to their privileges.

Now that woman has made such advance in personal and property
rights, educational and industrial opportunities, to deny her the
ballot is to force her to occupy a much more degrading position
than did the women of the past. We think the savage woman
degraded because she walks behind her husband bearing the burden
to leave his hands free for the weapon which is his sign of
sovereignty; what shall we say of the woman of to-day who may not
follow her husband and brother as he goes forth to wield the
weapon of civilization, the ballo