en and women from that State under the heading, Colorado
Speaks for Itself, and it was most appropriate that Miss Anthony
should preside. In presenting her Mrs. Catt said: "This is Miss
Anthony's 84th birthday. We might have had a program filled with
tributes to her and no doubt you would all have enjoyed them but
instead we have what she will like better, a program to show, not that
woman suffrage would be a good thing but that it has been a good
thing. When Miss Anthony was born no woman in America could vote; no
woman in modern times had been a lawyer. Tonight our ushers are seven
women graduates of the Washington Law School, in the cap and gown
which used to be forbidden to women. But there is something else going
on tonight that is a more noteworthy celebration of her birthday. A
measure to grant suffrage to women is pending in Denmark with the
backing of the government and the women of that country have arranged
a great demonstration in favor of the bill and have fixed the date for
today because it is the birthday of Susan B. Anthony. Opponents of
woman suffrage pay almost their whole attention to Colorado, so we
have asked Colorado to come and talk for itself and it has responded
magnificently. All the speakers pay their own expenses and have come
this long way for the pleasure of saying a word for woman suffrage."

The Washington _Post_ commented, "Miss Anthony received an ovation and
it was delightful to see the pride with which she introduced the
speakers--a former Governor, a woman State Superintendent of Public
Instruction, chairmen of women's political committees and clubs, a
woman county superintendent." Mrs. Katharine Cook, president of the
Jane Jefferson Club, a Democratic organization of over a thousand
women, spoke on The Ideals We Cherish and strongly emphasized that
politics did not impair true womanliness or lower high ideals. "A
nation can be no more free or pure or beautiful than the homes of
which it is composed," she said. "Our country is but a greater home
and no mother whose love for her fireside is more than an instinct or
a sentiment can fail to see that the welfare of her home and family is
vitally connected with an unstained ballot and an honest government.
We women who believe in the right of suffrage and exercise it with the
utmost wisdom with which we are gifted, use it for the preservation
and defense and love of our homes ... and it is this spirit which is
needed at the polls."

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