de upon the proper laws for the education of children, the
women of Louisiana or the intelligent wiseacres who have in this
State emasculated civil service, massacred the Australian ballot
and assaulted with intent to kill each and every measure which
looks to the improvement of the State, we give our answer in no
uncertain terms.

Miss Mary N. Chase, president of the New Hampshire Suffrage
Association, made an earnest plea for the enfranchisement of women,
"the natural guardians and protectors of the home. It will strengthen
their minds and broaden their intellects and render them more fit for
its government," she said, "and until women join with men in
exercising the sacred right of the franchise we cannot hope for the
dawn of the kingdom of God on the earth." A letter was read from Mrs.
Harriot Stanton Blatch urging that for a year the organization should
be used nationally and locally to pursue and punish political
corruption. "The women in our association," she said, "are trained to
political action; we have had long experience in self-control; defeat
has taught us its lessons of poise; devotion to a great principle has
given us a faith almost religious in its optimism." The men were
taking no concerted action to protect the republic against this
menace, she thought, and the task seemed to be left to the women.

The formal address of Dr. Shaw on The Modern Democratic Ideal made a
profound impression but no record of it exists except in newspaper
clippings. She began by saying: "It is impossible to discuss the woman
question without discussing also the man question. What is fundamental
to one is fundamental to the other. It is argued by some that on
account of the difference in characteristics between men and women it
is the man who ought to govern. They are mistaken. It is now
recognized that the best and noblest men and women are those in whom
the different characteristics of each sex are most harmoniously
blended. The modern democratic ideal illustrates this fact. It is
greatly different from the ancient democratic ideal, as neither Plato
nor Aristotle nor Dante had a place in their ideals for the common
people, but when the French Revolution startled the world with the
idea of human rights, of natural rights common to all, there sprang
into life the conception of the same ideal among the men of our own
country." Dr. Shaw traced the progress of democratic ideals in this
country from the