preferred the old way of amending their State constitution, it
would still be open. The Shafroth Amendment would lay no
compulsion upon any State; it would only take snags out of the
way of amendments in those States where the snags are now very
thick.

Feeling on this subject is more acute than it needs to be because
the suffrage atmosphere just now is highly charged with
electricity. The Shafroth Amendment is a first-rate little
amendment and the sooner it passes the better.

The National Convention at Nashville in November, 1914, after many
hours of heated discussion, finally adopted a resolution that it
should be the policy of the association to "support by every means
within its power the Anthony Amendment and to support such other
legislation as the National Board might authorize to the end that the
Anthony resolution should become law." (Minutes, p. 26.) At the
convention of December, 1915, in Washington it was voted that the last
year's action in regard to the Shafroth Amendment be rescinded; that
the association re-indorse the Anthony Amendment and that no other be
introduced by it during the coming year. (Minutes, page 43.) This
ended the matter for all time.

APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XV.

FROM ADDRESS OF DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW WHEN RESIGNING THE PRESIDENCY OF
THE NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION, DEC. 15, 1915.

After a brief sketch of the condition of the world after a year and a
half of the war in Europe, the address continued:

As an association we are confronted through the eternal law of
progress by changes in our methods such as we have not met since
the union of the two national societies in 1890. Our enlarged and
expanding status as an association, the new and varied duties
which devolve upon us and the innumerable demands increasing with
the accumulation of means and workers call for a new kind of
service in leadership. Political necessity has supplanted the
reform epoch; the reapers of the harvest have replaced the
ploughman and seed sower, each equally needed in the process of
the cultivation and the development of an ideal as in the harvest
of the land. When this movement began its pioneers were
reformers, people who saw a vision and dreamed dreams of the time
when all mankind should be free and all human beings have an
equal opportunity under the law. Other reformers becam