erception of
the equal truth of what we have just stated above. To accept
this verity and turn our energies toward the emancipation of
our own sex--toward their emancipation from frivolous aims,
petty prejudices, and that attitude toward the other sex
which is really the sycophancy born of vanity and weakness;
to make them recognize the State as a multiplication of
their own families, and patriotism as the broadening of
their love of home; to make them see that that mother will
be most respected whose son does not, when a downy beard is
grown, suddenly tower above her in the supercilious
enjoyment of an artificial superiority--a superiority which
consists simply, as Figaro says, in his having taken the
trouble to be born; to make them see, finally, that in the
highest exercise of all the powers with which God has
endowed her, woman can no more refuse the duties of
citizenship, than she can refuse the duties of wifehood and
motherhood, once having accepted those sacred relations.
This is our first duty, and this the scope of our work, if
we would attain suffrage in 1879, or even in 1900.

FOOTNOTES:

[487] _President_, Alida C. Avery, M. D., Denver.
_Vice-Presidents_, Rev. Mr. Harford, Denver; Mr. J. E. Washburn,
Big Thompson; Mrs. H. M. Lee, Longmont; Mrs. M. M. Sheetz, Canon
City; Mrs. L. S. Ruhn, Del Norte; Mr. N. C. Meeker, Greeley; Hon.
Willard Teller, Central; Mr. D. M. Richards, Denver; Mr. J. B.
Harrington, Littleton; Mr. A. E. Lee, Boulder; Rev. Wm. Shephard,
Canon City. _Recording Secretary_, Miss Eunice D. Sewall, Denver.
_Corresponding Secretary_, Mrs. A. L. Washburn, Big Thompson.
_Treasurer_, Mrs. I. T. Hanna, Denver. _Executive Committee_, Mrs.
M. F. Shields, Colorado Springs; Mr. A. L. Ellis, Boulder; Mrs. M.
E. Hale, Denver; Mr. W. A. Wilkes, Colorado Springs; Mr. J. R.
Hanna, Denver; Mrs. S. C. Wilber, Greeley; Rev. Dr. Crary, Pueblo.

[488] Of the membership of this committee a grateful word is to be
said: Mrs. Campbell is a woman of agreeable and stately presence,
and adds to thorough information on all points connected with
the claims made in this campaign, an unusual facility and
persuasiveness of language. Mrs. Shields is one of the most lovable
women to be seen in the suffrage panorama; a tower of strengt