bbell at their palatial residence, Terrace Hill.
The convention was welcomed in behalf of the State by Gov. Francis M.
Drake, who paid the highest possible tribute to the social and
intellectual qualities of women, pointed out the liberality of Iowa in
respect to manhood suffrage and congratulated the association
generally, but was extremely careful not to commit himself on the
question of woman suffrage. Mayor John McVicar extended the welcome of
the city in eloquent language. He also skirted all around the suffrage
question, came much nearer an expression of approval than did the
Governor, but cleverly avoided a direct assertion in favor. He was
followed by the Rev. H. O. Breeden, pastor of the Christian Church in
which the convention was assembled. Not being in politics he dared
express an honest opinion and said in the course of his remarks:

[Illustration: (MISS ANTHONY'S CABINET IN 1900.)

CATHARINE WAUGH McCULLOCH.
Second Auditor.

ALICE STONE BLACKWELL.
Recording Secretary.

RACHEL FOSTER AVERY.
Corresponding Secretary 21 Years.

LAURA CLAY.
First Auditor.

HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON.
Treasurer.

]

It is my privilege to address you in behalf of the churches, and
I do so with great pleasure, because I have a robust faith that
you are right, and also that the churches are with you in
sympathy and heart. I belong to one which welcomes women to its
pulpit and to all its offices. I should distrust the Christianity
of any that would deny to my mother and wife the rights it
accords to my father and myself. We welcome you to this city of
churches and to the churches of the city, and to its homes.

Woman shows her capacity for the highest functions in proportion
as she is admitted to them. I hold it true, with Dr. Storrs, that
as Dante measured his progress in Paradise not by outer objects
but by the increased beauty upon the face of Beatrice, so the
progress of the race is measured by the increasing beauty of
character shown in its women. The fanaticism of yesterday is the
reform of to-day, and the victory of to-morrow. Truth always goes
onward and never back. The day of equal rights for women is
surely coming. You are fighting a good warfare, with God, with
conscience and with right to inspire you, and the triumph is near
at hand.

Mrs. Mattie Locke Macom