her party returned east
by way of the Yellowstone Park. Dr. Cora Smith Eaton with a few daring
spirits went for a climb of Mt. Hood. Miss Anthony with a group of
friends started southward, stopping at Chico, California, for her to
dedicate a park of 2,000 acres, which Mrs. Annie K. Bidwell had
presented to the village. They went on to San Francisco where they
were joined by Dr. Shaw, who had remained in Portland for the Medical
Convention and spoken at several places en route. Here they were
beautifully entertained in the homes of the suffrage leaders, Mrs.
Mary Wood Swift, Mrs. Ellen Clark Sargent, Mrs. Mary S. Sperry, Mrs.
Emma Shafter Howard and others, and mass meetings crowded to the doors
were held in San Francisco and Oakland. From here they went to Los
Angeles for other meetings, except Dr. Shaw, who started eastward for
her round of Chautauqua engagements.

FOOTNOTES:

[36] Part of Call: A government of men and women--not by women alone,
not by men alone, but a government of men and women by men and women
for men and women--this is the aim and ideal of our association.

One hundred years ago Oregon was an untrodden wilderness. The
transformation of that primeval territory into prosperous communities
enjoying the highest degree of civilization could not have been
accomplished without the work of women. No restriction should be
placed upon energies and abilities so potent for good. The extension
of the right of suffrage would remove a handicap from the efforts of
women and give them an opportunity to work for the welfare of the
State. We do not claim that woman's voice in the government would at
once sound the death knell to all social and political evils but we do
believe that a government representing the interests and beliefs of
women and men would prove itself, and is proving itself where it now
exists, to be a better government than one which represents the
interests and beliefs of men alone.

The movement for the enfranchisement of women is based upon the
unchanging and unchangeable principles of human liberty, in accordance
with which successive classes of men have won the right of
self-government. On such a foundation ultimate victory is assured and
in truth is conceded even by those who oppose. The day is ever drawing
nearer when the nation will apply to women the principles which are
the very foundation of its existence; when on every election day there
will be re-affirmed the immortal truths of