of the arguments in favor of suffrage. Mrs. Wallace has
been an officer in the National, the American and the State
suffrage societies, and has served the Equal Suffrage Society of
Indianapolis as president most of the time since its formation.
Having lived in this city more than half a century, related to
many men who have held high official positions, she has had an
opportunity to exert a wide influence, and it may be safe to say
that, by virtue of her own consecrated life, she exerts more
moral power in this community than any other woman in Indiana.

Mrs. Helen M. Gougar has addressed the legislatures of New York,
Kansas and Wisconsin, besides that of her own State. As an
extempore speaker she has no peer among her co-workers; her first
suffrage speech was made at Delphi, May, 1877. In July, 1881,
Mrs. Gougar became the editor of _Our Herald_, a weekly which she
conducted with great ability and success in the interest of the
two constitutional amendments then pending. In 1884, in an
extensive lecturing tour, she addressed large audiences in
Washington, Philadelphia, New York and Albany. In the year 1883,
Mrs. Josephine R. Nichols of Illinois, and Mrs. L. May Wheeler of
Massachusetts, came to reside in Indianapolis. Both these ladies
have lectured frequently and with marked effect in various parts
of the State.

I cannot close without a mention of those public men who have
honored this State by their adherence to the principle of woman
suffrage and thereby earned a title to the fame which will belong
to the advocates of this cause in the hour of its triumph. Among
these Hon. George W. Julian is most conspicuous. Referring to his
services in congress, Mr. Julian once wrote:

My opinions about woman suffrage, however, date much further
back. The subject was first brought to my attention in a
brief chapter on the "Political Non-existence of Women," in
Miss Martineau's book on "Society in America," which I read
in 1847. She there pithily stated the substance of all that
has since been said respecting the logic of woman's right to
the ballot; and finding myself unable to answer, I accepted
it. On recently referring to this chapter I find myself more
impressed by its force than when I first read it.