Declaration of Principles, prepared by Mrs. Catt, Dr. Shaw, Miss
Blackwell and Mrs. Harper remained a permanent platform of the
association.

Dr. Shaw made the delegates smile at one morning session after they
had sung "America" by moving that hereafter the line, "Our Father's
God to Thee," should be printed on their program, "Our Father, God, to
Thee." She said the preachers and poets had a habit of talking so
exclusively about "the God of our fathers" that there was danger of
forgetting that our mothers had any God! Mrs. Mary Wood Swift
(Calif.), its president, brought the greetings of the National Council
of Women. The report from the Friends Equal Rights Association, an
affiliated society, was made by Mrs. Anne W. Janney (Md). Fraternal
greetings were given by Mrs. Olive Pond Amies for the Pennsylvania W.
C. T. U.; by Mrs. Arabella Carter (Penn.) for the Universal Peace
Union, and by Mrs. Emma S. Olds (O.) for the Ladies of the Maccabees
of the World. Mrs. Catt warmly complimented this last organization for
its fine business principles and the high character of its leaders.
The association appointed as its legal adviser Mrs. Catharine Waugh
McCulloch, a prominent lawyer of Chicago, for years the superintendent
of legislative work for the Illinois Suffrage Association and part of
the time its president. It is needless to say that it was not a
salaried position. One morning Mrs. Catt called the "pioneers" to the
platform and presented them to the convention, among them Miss Mary S.
Anthony, who had attended the first Woman's Rights Convention in 1848,
of whom her sister always said: "She has looked after the home and
made it possible for me to do my work."

Miss Emily Howland of Sherwood, N. Y., one of the early Abolitionists,
said in her few words of reminiscence: "I remember Lucy Stone holding
a series of meetings through New York State in my youth. My uncle came
home and reported that a young woman was lecturing and putting up her
own posters; that she was very bright and he was not sure but that she
was right and what she advocated would have to come. As I think of
those three great leaders, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Susan B. Anthony, I know what heroism is.... We women did not fully
realize at first that militarism was our greatest foe. We are always
told that women must not vote because they can not fight. I believe
they could--I see many women who have more fight in them than many
men.... Our ca