le Eagle soar aloft, not on battlefields, not against
any nation, but for a brotherhood of men in the federation of the
world." The opening session ended with the president's address by Mrs.
Catt, in the course of which she said:

In ready response to growing intelligence and individualism the
principle of self-government has been planted in every civilized
nation of the world. Before the force of this onward movement the
most cherished ideals of conservatism have fallen. Out of the
ashes of the old, phoenix-like has arisen a new institution,
vigorous and strong, yea, one which will endure as long as men
occupy the earth. The little band of Americans who initiated the
modern movement would never have predicted that within a century
"Taxation of men without representation is tyranny" would have
been written into the fundamental law of all the monarchies of
Europe except Russia and Turkey and that even there
self-government would obtain in the municipalities. The most
optimistic seer among them would not have prophesied that
Mongolian Japan, then tightly shutting her gates against the
commerce of the world and jealously guarding her ancient customs,
would before the century closed have welcomed Western
civilization and established universal suffrage for its men. He
would not have dreamed that every inch of the great continent of
South America, then chiefly an unexplored region over which bands
of savages roved at will, would be covered by written
constitutions guaranteeing self-government to men inspired by
Declarations of Independence similar to that of this country;
that the settlements in Mexico and Central America and many
islands of the ocean would grow into republics, and least of all
that the island continent of Australia, with its associates of
New Zealand and Tasmania, then unexplored wildernesses, would
become great democracies where self-government would be carried
on with such enthusiasm, fervor and wisdom that they would give
lessons in methods and principles to all the rest of the
world....

Hard upon the track of the man suffrage movement presses the
movement for woman suffrage, a logical step onward. It has come
as inevitably and naturally as the flower unfolds from the bud or
the fruit develops from the flower. Why should woman suffrage