passed upon suffragists
and their activities prior to the World War, it was thereafter widely
acknowledged that in the national crisis they played a leading role in
the support and defense of the nation. While it is a matter for regret
that their war record cannot be chronicled as fully and definitely as
can their work for suffrage, nevertheless, even a casual examination
will show that it was a heroic one and none the less so because it was
frequently merged, through far-sighted efficiency, in the war-service
of all American women, of which it formed a distinguished part.

FOOTNOTES:

[150] The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. Katharine
Dexter McCormick, first vice-president of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association and general chairman of its War Service
Department.

[151] It was a question long and seriously discussed whether this vast
organization should be wholly dissolved or whether it should be
continued in the various States for civic and humanitarian purposes.
Dr. Shaw was strongly in favor of preserving it and her earnest appeal
will be found in Mrs. Blair's Report, page 137.

APPENDIX TO CHAPTER III.

THE DEATH OF MRS. STANTON.

From the address of an old and valued friend, the Rev. Moncure D.
Conway of Virginia, who was many years at the head of the Ethical
Culture Society of London, at the funeral of Elizabeth Cady Stanton in
her home in New York City, Oct. 28, 1902.

A lighthouse on the human coast is fallen. To vast multitudes the
name Elizabeth Cady Stanton does not mean so much a person as a
standard inscribed with great principles. Roses will grow out of
her ashes; individual characters will give a resurrection to her
soul and genius, but the immortality she has achieved is that of
her long and magnificent services to every cause of justice and
reason. Beginning her career amid ridicule and obloquy, all the
worth she put into her life has not only been returned to her
personally in the love and friendship which have surrounded her
and made life happy even to her last day, but has been returned
to her tenfold in the successes of her cause.

Could I utter to her my farewell I would say: Revered and beloved
friend, you pass to your rest after a brave and beautiful life;
you have journeyed by a path of unsullied light. If ever there
shall be established in America a republic--a Constitution and