In looking back over the ten years of my administration as president
of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, there can be no
feeling but gratitude and elation over the growth of the work. Our
membership has grown from 17,000 women to more than 200,000, and the
number of auxiliary societies has increased in proportion.

Instead of the old-time experience of one campaign in ten years, we
now have from five to ten campaigns each year. From an original yearly
expenditure of $14,000 or $15,000 in our campaign work, we now expend
from $40,000 to $50,000. In New York, in 1915, we have already received
pledges of $150,000 for the New York State campaign alone, while
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New Jersey have made pledges in
proportion.

In 1906 full suffrage prevailed in four states; we now have it in
twelve. Our movement has advanced from its academic stage until it
has become a vital political factor; no reform in the country is more
heralded by the press or receives more attention from the public. It has
become an issue which engages the attention of the entire nation--and
toward this result every woman working for the Cause has contributed to
an inspiring degree. Splendid team-work, and that alone, has made
our present success possible and our eventual triumph in every state
inevitable. Every officer in our organization, every leader in our
campaigns, every speaker, every worker in the ranks, however humble, has
done her share.

I do not claim anything so fantastic and Utopian as universal harmony
among us. We have had our troubles and our differences. I have had mine.
At every annual convention since the one at Washington in 1910 there has
been an effort to depose me from the presidency. There have been some
splendid fighters among my opponents--fine and high-minded women who
sincerely believe that at sixty-eight I am getting too old for my big
job. Possibly I am. Certainly I shall resign it with alacrity when the
majority of women in the organization wish me to do so. At present a
large majority proves annually that it still has faith in my leadership,
and with this assurance I am content to work on.

Looking back over the period covered by these reminiscences, I realize
that there is truth in the grave charge that I am no longer young; and
this truth was once voiced by one of my little nieces in a way that
brought it strongly home to me. She and her small sister of six had
declared themselves suf