otation from my speech even in that paper. You may say
for me that the statement is wholly without foundation and that woman
suffrage has not proved to be a failure in my State."

Mrs. McCulloch referred to the "poor, misguided working girl" among
the "antis" who said wage-earning women didn't want the vote and asked
Miss Rose Winslow, a prominent working woman, to read the resolution
demanding the suffrage which was passed by the National Women's Trade
Union League. She did so and in a few sentences scored one of the
flowery anti-suffrage speakers, saying: "I have not had any choice as
to whether I should walk on the Bowery or on Fifth Avenue, because I
walk nowhere in the sunshine. I am one of the millions of women who
work in the shadow of these women of whom men speak as though they are
the only ones in the country, in order that they may parade the avenue
in all the beauty and glory of everything brought from all over the
world for their decoration, but I do not come with merely my personal
opinion and experience. I have the opinion of the organized working
women of America in convention assembled. These women represent all
the trades that women work at in the United States and they have
passed this resolution demanding the ballot without a dissenting
vote."

Mrs. Emma S. South, wife of former Representative Oliver South of
Illinois, said the opponents had given alleged facts that would
require weeks of investigation to prove or disprove. She answered
their favorite assertion that women had more influence without the
vote by convincing illustrations of what the women of Chicago had been
able to accomplish with even their partial suffrage, retaining Mrs.
Ella Flagg Young as superintendent of schools, for instance. She
showed how in the appointment of the new school board the fact that
their power had been doubled and trebled by the recently granted
Municipal vote was manifest. Mrs. William Kent, after showing why the
women of California had asked for the ballot, gave her time to Miss
Helen Todd, who said in the course of an impassioned speech: "My
conversion to suffrage came through six years of work as factory
inspector in Illinois. I have always thought that the reason there
could be such a thing as women 'antis' was simply that the screen of
ignorance and the comfort and protection of home were so thrown
around them that they never had to face the realities.... No one can
go, as I have gone, through the factori