ng ignorant or indifferent on the question; that they
adopt, if not an attitude of active leadership or of loyal
support, at least a position of reasoned opposition or of
intelligent hesitation between opposing arguments. To ask less
than this really is an insult to a thinking person, man or
woman.... The student trained to reach decisions in the light of
logic and of history will be disposed to recognize that, in a
democratic country governed as this is by the suffrage of its
citizens and given over as this is to the principle and practice
of educating women, a distinction based on difference of sex is
artificial and illogical, and thus suspicious.... For myself, I
believe that the probabilities favor woman suffrage.

MRS. MOORE: The women of today may well feel that it is Miss
Anthony who has made life possible to them; she has trodden the
rough paths and by unwearied devotion has opened to them the
professions and higher applied industries. Through her life's
work they enjoy a hundred privileges denied them fifty years ago;
from her devotion has grown a new order; her hand has helped to
open every line of business to women. She has spoken at times to
thousands of girls on the public duties of women.... Her life
story must epitomize the victorious struggle of women for larger
intellectual freedom in the last century.... The world does move.
Those who are aware of the great and beneficent changes made in
the laws relating to the rights of property, in the civil and
industrial laws pertaining to women and children, may estimate
the good accomplished by these pioneers.

MRS. PARK: I suppose it is true that all through history
individual women have been able, sometimes by cajolery, sometimes
by personal charm, sometimes by force of character, to get for
themselves privileges far greater than any that the most radical
advocates of woman's rights have yet demanded. But in the case of
Miss Anthony and the other early suffragists all that force of
character was turned not to individual ends, not to getting large
things for themselves, but to getting little gains, step by step,
for the great mass of other women; not for the service of
themselves but for the service of the sex and so of the whole
human race.... The object of the College Women's Leagu