gh church," I am a
suffragist and something else. We ought to have the ballot, we
are at a disadvantage in our work while we are deprived of it,
but even without it we have great power. We must stamp out the
traffic in womanhood, it is a survival of barbarism. Womanhood is
a unit; no one woman can be an outcast without dire evil to
family life. What caused the doctors to come together in a
Society for Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis? It was because the
evil done in dark places came back in injury to the family
life.... We must make ourselves more terrible than an army with
banners to despoilers of womanhood.... Men are no longer to be
excused for writing in scarlet on their foreheads their
incapacity for self-control. None of us is longer to be excused
for cowardice and acquiescence in the sacrifice of womanhood. Not
even that woman--vilest of all creatures on the face of the earth
I do believe--the procuress, shall be beyond the pale of
sympathy, for she is merely the product of the feeling on the
part of men that they owe nothing to women or to themselves in
the way of purity, and the feeling on the part of women that they
have no right to demand of men what men demand of them. If women
are going to amount to anything in government, they would better
begin to practice here and now and band themselves together with
noble men to bring about this reform.

Of equal interest with Pioneers' Evening and in striking contrast with
it was the College Evening. One commemorated the first efforts to
obtain a college education for women, the other the full fruition of
these efforts in the announcement of a National College Women's Equal
Suffrage League with branches in fifteen States. Dr. Shaw, possessing
three college degrees, opened the session, and the founder of the
League, Mrs. Maud Wood Park, a graduate of Radcliffe College,
presided. "With the exception of Oberlin and Antioch," she said, "not
one college was open to women before the organized movement for woman
suffrage began." She gave statistics of the large number now open to
them and said: "Such facts as these help us to understand the service
which the leaders of the suffrage movement performed for college women
and it is fitting that these should make public recognition of their
debt. It was with this idea of responsibility for benefits received
that the first