esident's address by
saying: "We have never before been more enthusiastic than today.
Victory has not come in the United States but we are not working for
ourselves alone. Wherever freedom comes to any woman that is our
victory and when the new constitution of Finland granted absolute
equality to its woman citizens, that was our victory." Municipal
suffrage had been given to the women of Natal, South Africa, she said:
"and now at the foot of Mt. Ararat, where the ark rested, the
Catholicos, or High Priest of that conservative people and religion,
the Armenians, has issued an edict that the women of the church shall
not only have a voice in the election of its officers but also shall
be eligible to official position." She referred to the recent defeat
of the suffrage amendment in Oregon and said: "All honor to those
37,000 men who voted for it; their descendants will not be ashamed of
their fathers' act. There are today organizations of Sons and
Daughters of the American Revolution and there will some day be one of
'Sons and Daughters of the Evolution of Women's Freedom,' but there
will never be one of the Tories who fought against that Revolution or
this Evolution," and she continued:

This year I took for my motto those splendid words: "Truth loses
many battles but always wins its war." We did not win save as
those who fight for the truth are always the people who win.
There never was, there never will be greater defeat in any human
life than the victory which comes to the man or woman who is
fighting against the truth, and there never can be a greater
victory to any human soul than the fact that it is fighting for
the truth, whether it wins or not.... This has been a year of
victory in that more women have been enfranchised than in any
preceding year. We have the largest membership that we have ever
had. We come together in hope and in the firm determination that
we will fight it out on this line if it takes all summer and all
the summers of our life, and then the battle will not be finished
unless the victory is absolutely won for all women.... While we
have cause to rejoice we have also cause for sorrow. As an
organization it has been the saddest year we have known or ever
can know, for there has gone out from among us the visible
presence of her who was our leader for over fifty years, and I
have just come with others di