ought.... God bless this organization and may the
realization of its hopes be not far off! God bless the women engaged
in this work! God knows that if this city has in any way been lifted
up, it has been through the efforts of noble women. God bless them! We
want to feel that men and women are actuated by righteousness and are
working together to bring about its social and political
regeneration."

Dr. Cora Smith Eaton (Minn.) thus began her address, Westward Ho: "The
geologists tell us that Louisiana and her sister State Mississippi are
built up of the particles of earth brought down by the great river
through the Mississippi valley," and after a picturesque description
she said: "Coming from the source of this river, travelling 1,500
miles to its mouth, I find myself still on my native soil and I feel
at home; so all who have joined me on the way down the valley claim
kinship with you of New Orleans." She then paid tribute to the State
and its people and closed: "O, men of the South, your saviour is the
southern woman! Put into her hand the ballot of full enfranchisement,
like that you carry in your own hand on election day. Her interests
are identical with your own and she will hold your ideals sacred even
more loyally than you do yourselves." Mr. Blackwell gave one of his
customary logical and carefully reasoned addresses on Domestic
Imperialism.

The Rev. Marie Jenney (Iowa) discussed the question Why Women do Not
Vote. She compared them to some wild ducks that were born in a
farmyard and as they were stepping timidly about the farmer said:
"Them ducks can fly, they can fly miles, but they don't know it." "One
reason why women do not vote," she said, "is the entire
self-effacement of many, and another is the kindness of many men.
These are lovely traits but they may be misapplied. Women sometimes
efface themselves to an extent that is bad for their men as well as
themselves, and men out of mistaken kindness shield their women from
responsibilities that it would be better for them to have." Mrs.
Virginia D. Young (S. C.), owner, manager and editor of a weekly paper
in Fairfax, announced her speech From the Most Conservative State, but
she did not say, as she might have done, that she had leavened the
State with woman suffrage sentiment. Her address was bubbling over
with the humor which seems inherent with Southern women.

The Sunday services were held at 4 o'clock in the Athenaeum, which was
crowded. The Rev. A