d that instead it provide for women on school, hospital,
park and health boards, but the general committee reported adversely.
The Atlanta branch protested to Mayor Livingstone Mims against the
injustice of not allowing women taxpayers to vote on the proposed
$400,000 bond issue. He expressed himself in favor of woman suffrage
and promised to bring the matter before the city council, but there
was no result.

Miss Kate M. Gordon, national corresponding secretary, gave a most
convincing address in the Carnegie Library the next year, 1903, on how
the taxpaying women of Louisiana won the right to vote on questions of
taxation; strong articles were published, but all the women were able
to do was to post large placards at the polls, "Taxpaying women should
be allowed to vote at this bond election." Dr. Anna Howard Shaw,
national vice-president-at-large, came to assist at the State
convention and delivered her famous lecture, "The Fate of Republics."
This year the association distributed 10,000 pages of suffrage
literature at the Interstate Fair. It attempted to bring a bill before
the Legislature for police matrons but not a member would introduce
it.

During these years the suffragists found it very difficult to persuade
a legislator to present a bill for raising the age of consent or
compulsory education in order to take the young children out of the
factories or for the enfranchisement of women. In 1905, at the request
of the National Association that fraternal greetings should be sent to
various organizations, Mrs. McLendon, who had been a member of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union since 1890, carried them to its
convention and made an earnest but unsuccessful effort to have it
adopt a franchise department. Thousands of pieces of suffrage
literature were distributed at the State Fair. In 1906 memorial
services were held for the great leader, Susan B. Anthony, and the
association carried out to its full power all the State work planned
by the National Board, including a petition to the Legislature to pass
a resolution asking Congress to submit a Federal Suffrage Amendment.

The membership of the association was increased in 1907 by the
addition of three prominent W. C. T. U. officials, Mrs. J. J. Ansley,
Mrs. Jennie Hart Sibley and Mrs. L. W. Walker, who were promptly
appointed superintendents of Church Work, Legislation and Petition and
Christian Citizenship. Miss Jean Gordon of New Orleans and Mrs.
Florence K