tence and unfaltering courage exemplified in your life, in
our efforts to lead men through the Pass of justice, which goes
over the mountains of prejudice and conservatism to the broad
land of the perfect freedom of a true republic; one in which men
and women together shall in perfect equality solve the problems
of a nation that knows no caste, no race, no sex in opportunity,
in responsibility or in justice! May "the eternal womanly" ever
lead us on!...

Referring to the convention and the delegates Dr. Shaw said:

What does our coming mean to us, who gather in this 37th annual
convention where sits the woman whose chair has never been
vacant in all these years of hope deferred; whose heart has
continually glowed with perennial youth; whose soul has burned
with a vivid flame of love and freedom; whose brain has been the
inspirer of herculean service; whose industry has never flagged;
whose quenchless hope for humanity has carried us from victory to
victory? May her spirit of devotion to freedom ever lead us on!

It means fifty-seven years nearer to victory than when the first
invincible band of pioneers of universal freedom met in that
little church in Seneca Falls, N. Y., in 1848. It means that in
this body are women from four States of our Union already crowned
with full citizenship; that delegates from more than two-score
States have crossed the borderland of freedom, and that
representatives from nearly every State and Territory are banded
together in an unfaltering purpose to become politically free. It
also means that more has been accomplished for the betterment of
the condition of women, for their physical, economic,
intellectual and religious emancipation, by these fifty-seven
years of evolutionary progress, than by all the revolutions the
world has known; and it means that in every civilized nation of
the earth, more and more the most patriotic, the most
law-abiding, the most intelligent and the most industrious people
are coming to see the justice of our claim, that in a
representative government "the people who bear the burdens and
responsibilities should share its privileges also--not excepting
women." ...

The recent attacks of Cardinal Gibbons and former President Cleveland,
who had protested against women taking part in the Governmen