shall (Ia.); Miss Gail Laughlin (N. Y.); Judge
Stephen A. Lowell, one of Oregon's leading jurists. Judge Lowell
reviewed the political situation, the evils that had crept into the
Government and the remedies that had been tried and failed and he
summed up his conclusion by saying: "The reforms of the last century
have come from women. Man has few to his credit because he could not
measure them by the only standard he had mastered, that of the dollar.
Witness the movement for female education led by Mary Lyon, the birth
of the Red Cross in the work of Florence Nightingale, the institution
of modern prison methods under the inspiration of Elizabeth Fry and
the campaigns for temperance and social purity under the leadership of
Frances Willard. The electorate needs the inspiring influence of women
at the ballot box and the full mission of this republic to the world
will never be met until she is admitted there. Not color or creed or
sex but patriotic honesty must be the test of citizenship if the
republic lives."

Mrs. Stewart took up the objections made by many of the clergy to
woman suffrage and applied these to the ministers themselves. "They
should not vote," she said with fine sarcasm, "because like women they
are exempt from jury duty. They seldom go to war--some of them are too
old, others too delicate, some too near-sighted, some too far-sighted.
Ministers as a rule are not heavy tax-payers. Many of them do not want
to vote and do not use the vote they have. A preacher has not time to
vote. It might lead him to neglect his pastoral duties. Political
feeling often runs high and if he voted it might make quarrels in the
church. The minister has a potent indirect influence. He would be
contaminated by the corruption of politics. He is represented by his
male relations; they are not as good and pure as he is and are
probably immune from contamination by politics."

Mrs. Catt, who presided, in presenting the Rev. Mrs. Blackwell, one of
the first to make the fight for the right of women to speak in public,
said: "The combination of her sweet personality and her invincible
soul has won friends for woman suffrage wherever she has gone." Her
address on Suffrage and Education showed the evolution in woman's
work. "My grandmother taught me to spin," she said, "but the men have
relieved womankind from that task and as they have taken so many
industrial burdens off of our hands it is our duty to relieve them of
some of their b