ng many lines and
declared that "women pay taxes and do public service and hold up
before men the standard of righteousness and they ought to have a
vote," and closed by saying: "We need appeals to the heart and
conscience in our schools and a revival of conscience. We need a
standard of character and conscience and women can bring it into the
schools much better than men can. The woman, because she is a woman,
is less easily corrupted than the man who has forgotten that he had a
mother. If we must disfranchise somebody, it would better be many of
the men than the women."

At one meeting Judge Roger S. Greene, who was Chief Justice of the
Territory of Washington when the majority of the Supreme Court gave a
decision which took away the suffrage from women and who loyally tried
to preserve it for them, was invited to the platform and received an
ovation. At another time Judge William Galloway, a veteran suffragist,
was called before the convention, and after referring to his journey
to Oregon by ox-team in 1852 told of his conversion by Mrs. Duniway
when he was a member of the Legislature at the age of 21. National
conventions were of daily occurrence during the Exposition and a
number of them called for addresses by Mrs. Catt, Dr. Shaw and other
suffrage speakers. At the evening session preceding the last Miss Mary
S. Anthony, 78 years old, read in a clear, strong voice the
Declaration of Sentiments adopted at the famous first Woman's Rights
Convention in 1848, which she had signed. The rest of the evening of
July 4 was given to what the _Woman's Journal_ spoke of as "Mrs.
Catt's noble address," The New Time, beginning:

This is a glorious Fourth of July. In a hundred years the United
States has grown into a mighty nation. This last has been a
century of wonderful material development, but we celebrate not
for this. July 4 commemorates the birth of a great idea. All over
the world, wherever there is a band of revolutionists or of
evolutionists, today they celebrate our Fourth. The idea existed
in the world before but it was never expressed in clear,
succinct, intelligible language until the American republic came
into being.... Taxation without representation is tyranny, it
always was tyranny, it always will be tyranny, and it makes no
difference whether it be the taxation of black or white, rich or
poor, high or low, man or woman.... The United States has lo