very family, the amendment received a majority vote. This
ought to be sufficient to teach the women of all the States that
what we need is house-to-house educational work throughout every
voting precinct. We may possibly carry amendments with education
short of this, but we are not likely to. I believe if the slums
of San Francisco and Oakland had been thus organized, even the
men there could have been made to see that it was for their
interest and that of their wives and daughters to vote for the
amendment. But, while the suffragists had no committees whatever
in those districts, the "liquor men" had an active committee in
every saloon, "dive" and gambling house. I am, therefore, more
and more convinced that it is educational work which needs to be
done. It is of little use for us to make our appeals to political
party conventions, State Legislatures or Congress for resolutions
in favor of woman's enfranchisement, while no appeal comes up to
them from the rank and file of the voters.

Until we do this kind of house-to-house work we can never expect
to carry any of the States in which there are large cities. If
Idaho had had San Francisco, with all its liquor interests and
foreigners banded together, she would probably have been defeated
as was California.

So, friends, I am not in any sense disheartened, and while I
rejoice exceedingly over Idaho, I also rejoice exceedingly over
the grand work done in California, and over the 110,000 votes
given for woman suffrage in that State. It was vastly more than
was ever done in any other amendment campaign. Study then the
methods of California and Idaho and improve on them as much as
you possibly can.

The Des Moines _Leader_ thus finished its report:

It was not difficult for one who saw Miss Anthony for the first
time to understand why she is so well beloved by her associates.
Seventy-seven years old, she is the most earnest worker of them
all; she is not only their leader but their counsellor and
friend. While she occupied the platform the utmost solicitude was
manifested for her on the part of everybody. Once a glass of
water was sent for but did not come as soon as it should, and
everyone on the stage was visibly concerned except Miss Anthony
herself, who calmly observed, by way of apology fo