to make money. The women of the islands are
quite as well qualified to govern and have charge of affairs as
are the men. I do not propose to talk. I am simply here to
introduce those who are to address you.

Miss Anthony then presented Miss Harriet May Mills (N. Y.), who spoke
from the standpoint of tax paying women, who in the towns and villages
alone of her State paid taxes on over $5,000,000 worth of property;
Mrs. Lucretia L. Blankenburg, president of the Pennsylvania Suffrage
Association, who showed the connection between politics and conditions
in Philadelphia; the Rev. Olympia Brown, president of the Wisconsin
association, who pointed out the need of both the reason and the
intuition in the country to govern it wisely. Mrs. Mariana W. Chapman,
president of the New York association, called for a Federal Amendment
to enfranchise women because of the principles on which this
Government was founded. Miss Gail Laughlin, a graduate of Wellesley
College and Cornell University Law School, made a strong argument on
the effect enfranchisement would have on woman's economic independence
and greater efficiency. Mrs. Jennie A. Brown, of Minneapolis, told of
the unlimited opportunities allowed to the women of the great
northwest which were largely counteracted by their political
restrictions. Mrs. Mary Wood Swift of California, president of the
National Council of Women, declared that the countless thousands of
the educated, developed women of today were fully equal to the
responsibilities of citizenship. Mrs. Lucy Hobart Day, president of
the Maine association, demonstrated the inferior and unfortunate
position of disfranchised women. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, editor of
the _Woman's Journal_ (Boston), indicated how every step of the
progress of women had been opposed by the same objections now made to
woman suffrage and submitted these objections and the answers to them
in a convincing statement which filled ten pages of the printed report
of the hearing.

Miss Anthony introduced Mrs. Gudrun Drewsen, one of the foreign
delegates to the convention, who said in part: "Norwegian women look
back to the 25th of May, 1901, as a day of great victory, for on that
day a bill was passed in our Parliament which granted Municipal
suffrage to all women paying taxes on a certain limited income, about
$100 a year, or whose husbands paid on such income. This law has
thoroughly changed the position of the married woman and