ratulations
to you on the occasion of your seventy-eighth birthday, and hope
that the days of your years may still be many and happy. We also
desire to express our appreciation of and gratitude for the work
you have done in securing freedom and justice for women. As
business women we are better able to comprehend what you have
accomplished, especially for those who are bread-winners, and we
trust the time may soon come when we shall not be limited to
understanding what freedom is, but be able to act in accordance
with its principles.

THE NEVADA EQUAL SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION: Although we are young in
the ranks and few in number compared with the older States, yet
we are none the less loyal to the principles advocated and
established by the National Association. We are brave because we
draw inspiration from the thoughts and acts of that Spartan band
of suffragists of fifty years ago, who devoted the sunshine of
their lives and the energies of their philosophic minds to the
effort to obtain for womankind their inherent right to have a
voice in the Government which derives its just powers from the
consent of the governed.

ALFRED H. LOVE, president of the Universal Peace Union: From our
rooms in the east wing of Independence Hall, I send greetings to
you and your cause. Your cause is ours, and has been one of our
essential principles since our organization. Your success is a
triumph for peace.

MARY LOWE DICKINSON, secretary of the International Order of the
King's Daughters and Sons: I hope you will live to see the full
day for the cause whose dawn owed so much to your labors, and I
can ask nothing better for you than that you have "the desire of
your heart," which I am sure will be the ballot for us all.

DR. ELIZABETH BLACKWELL, the first woman physician: Although I
can not respond in person to your very friendly invitation to be
a representative of "the pioneers," yet I gladly send my hearty
greeting to you and to the other brave workers for the progress
of the race--a progress slow but inevitable. Amongst all its
steps I consider the admission of women to the medical profession
as the most important. Whilst thankfully recognizing the
wonderful accumulations of knowledge which generations of our
brethren have gathered together, ou