a movement as these five million women in one country
earning their own living without there being in it something that
is for the best.... As a means to our work we want the suffrage.
We all get very tired of the woman question. I will discuss the
human question with any one but I will not discuss the woman
question, because I think that is past. If women are going into
industry, if they are going to have their places of
responsibility, then they must more and more meet the
responsibility that their brothers have with whom they work. It
is not fair to the working brother to let the girls come in and
cut down the wages and have no sense of responsibility, no
feeling of permanency. It is a very great danger. Therefore,
working women should have the ballot to make them feel that they,
too, are responsible citizens....

All reverence to the work that the suffragists have done! We have
always honored dear Miss Anthony and we all owe gratitude to you
women who have been so long in this cause making a way for the
rest of us. The working women are joining your ranks because they
know that they must do so.

The report of the Congressional Committee, Mrs. Catt chairman, was
read by Mrs. Kelley. It said that after the excellent hearings before
the committees of Congress the preceding winter had no effect it was
decided to ask the cooperation of the General Federation of Women's
Clubs. This was done and its Industrial Advisory Board agreed to send
out a circular letter. The association's Congressional Committee
prepared one which the federation's board sent to 4,000 individual
clubs asking them to question the members of Congress from their
districts as to their opinion of a Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment
and the request was largely complied with. A resolution was adopted
that the association urge concerted action among the State auxiliaries
to secure the submission by Congress of a Sixteenth Amendment
forbidding disfranchisement on account of sex and that they be
recommended to make it a feature of their work to obtain from their
Legislatures a resolution in favor of such an amendment. A telegram of
greeting was sent to Mrs. Catt and she was appointed fraternal
delegate to the Peace Conference in New York in April.

Hard and conscientious work was shown in the reports of the chairmen
of all the committees: Legislation for Civil Rights,