uld bring something that had come to
her notice during the week, which she should read aloud,
thus furnishing topics of conversation in which all could
join. This never failed to make an interesting and
profitable meeting. And still later we invited speakers from
other States. In our various courses of lectures, Kasson
audiences have enjoyed the brave utterances of Anna
Dickinson, Julia Ward Howe, Susan B. Anthony, and others.
The pulpit of Kasson we have found about evenly balanced for
and against us; but those claiming to be friendly generally
maintained a "masterly inactivity." Our editors have always
shown us much kindness by gratuitously advertising our
meetings and publishing our articles. Our members were all
at the first meeting after school suffrage was granted to
women, and one lady was elected director for a term of three
years. The next year another lady was elected. While they
were members of the board, a new and beautiful school house
was erected, though some men said, "nothing in the line of
building could be safely done until after the women's term
of office had expired." Our co-workers have always treated
us with great courtesy. In this respect our labors were as
pleasant as in any church work.

At a temperance convention in 1874, a woman suffrage resolution
was ably defended by Mrs. Julia Ballard Nelson and Mrs. Harriet
A. Hobart; Mrs. Asa Hutchinson, of beloved memory, also spoke at
this meeting.

As the women in several of the States voted on educational
matters, the legislature of 1875 wished to confer the same
privilege upon the women of Minnesota. But instead of doing so by
direct legislation, as the other States had done, they passed a
resolution submitting a proposition for an amendment to the
constitution to the electors of the State, as follows:

An amendment to the State constitution giving the
legislature power to provide by law that any woman of the
age of twenty-one years and upwards, may vote at any
election held for the purpose of choosing any officers of
schools; or upon any measure relating to schools; and also
that any such woman shall be eligible to hold any office