test of
human endurance and wisdom to which women have not responded and
become the inspiration and the strength of manhood. If any women
of this nation have ever bought their freedom and paid a dear
price for it, it is the women of the Southland.

I cannot see how any man who calls himself a Democrat can fail to
recognize that the fundamental principle of democracy is the
right of the citizen to a voice in the government under which
that citizen lives; much less can I understand how any southern
man can look unmoved into the face of southern women knowing that
they are branded as no other body of intelligent people in this
country are--by disfranchisement--that they are deprived of that
one symbol of power which elevates the citizens of a democracy
out of the class of the defective and unfit. The only way men can
redeem themselves, the only way they can be honest American
citizens and Democrats is to stand by the fundamental principle
of democracy--that "Governments derive their just powers from the
consent of the governed"--"governed" women as well as "governed"
men. When Nashville and Tennessee and the South and the North and
the East and the West shall stand on this basic principle of just
government, then we shall have a republic, a government of the
people, by the people and for the people.

At the close of the address this resolution was enthusiastically
adopted: "The National American Woman Suffrage Association in
convention assembled hereby expresses its heartfelt thanks and deep
appreciation to our national president, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, for her
devoted and unremitting work for woman suffrage and for this
association during the past year; for her splendid services in the
campaigns which did so much to lead to victory two States; for her
willingness to stand for re-election in order that she may lead us to
new victories in the coming year."

Greetings were brought from the recently formed National Suffrage
Association of Canada by Miss Ida E. Campbell, who said that although
it was only eight months old it represented many affiliated societies
in all the Provinces. She spoke of the splendid war work that was
being done by women and said: "Our national president, Mrs. L. A.
Hamilton of Toronto, is at the head of the relief work in that city
and the feeling is general that the patriotic activities of the