rchards of the South, her snowy bosom rising to the
clouds, Idaho lies serene in her beauty of glacier, lake and
primeval forest, guarding in her verdure-clad mountains vast
treasures of precious minerals, with the hem of her robe
embroidered in sapphires and opals.... As representing Idaho,
first I wish to express the heartfelt gratitude of every equal
suffragist in our proud and happy State to the National
Association for the most generous help afforded us in our two
years' campaign. Without the aid of the devoted women, Mrs.
DeVoe, Mrs. Chapman Catt, Mrs. Bradford and Mrs. Johns, who made
the arduous journey to organize our clubs, plead our cause and
teach us how to work and win, we should not be celebrating
Idaho's victory to-night....

After describing the great output of the mines and the fruit-producing
value of the State, she continued:

I fancy few of you know much of the conditions existing in the
mining country, dotted with camps in every gulch; the
preponderance of the adult males over the women of maturity; the
power of the saloon element, and the cosmopolitan character of
the people--men from all parts of the world, ignorant and
cultured, depraved and respectable, seeking fame and fortune in
the far West--no reading-rooms, no lectures, no lyceums, no
spelling-bees or corn-huskings, the relaxation of the farm hand;
single men away from home and its influences, forced from the
draughty lobby of the hotel or tavern to the warmth and comfort
of the well-appointed saloon.

The missionary suffrage work in such places was obliged to be
quietly done, without any apparent advocacy on the part of men
who were in reality ardent supporters of our cause, lest the
saloon element should organize and, by concerted action, crush
the movement as they did in the State of Washington in 1889; and
California, too, owes her defeat of the amendment at least
partially to this cause. Yet you may go far to find nobler men
than we have in Idaho, and we did not lack able champions. Our
amendment was carried by more than a two-thirds majority of the
votes cast upon it.

The last address, by the Rev. Ida C. Hultin (Ills.), The Point of
View, was a masterly effort. She said in part:

Before any woman is a wife, a sister or a mother she is a human
being. We as