o women, should stand against the grossest of all injustices
which leaves innocent women widowed and children orphaned by war,
and which in time of peace diverts nearly two-thirds of the
federal revenue from constructive work to payment for past wars
and preparation for future wars. Thus far this association has
been so absorbed in its direct methods of advancing suffrage that
it has not perhaps sufficiently realized the power of many
agencies that are furthering its cause by indirect means. I
firmly believe that substituting statesmanship for battleship
will do more to remove the electoral injustices that still
prevent our being a democracy than any direct means used to
obtain woman suffrage, important and necessary as these are.
Women, though hating war, quite as frequently as men are deluded
by the plea that peace can be ensured only by huge armaments. It
is a question whether woman suffrage would greatly lessen the
vote for these supposed preventives of war, but there is no
question that more reliance on reason and less on force would
exalt respect for woman and would remove the objection that
woman's physical inferiority has anything to do with suffrage.

Several delegates expressed the need and the right of mothers to
strive to prevent war. Mrs. Duniway, Mrs. Philena Everett Johnson and
Mrs. DeVoe spoke on the pending amendment campaigns in their
respective States of Oregon, South Dakota and Washington. Mrs. Clara
Bewick Colby's subject was the American Situation vs. the English
Situation and she described the conditions in England which caused the
"suffragette" or "militant" movement. Mrs. Florence Kelley, chairman
of the Industrial Committee, spoke on the Wage Earning Woman and the
Ballot. "Because of the decision of the United States Supreme Court in
the Oregon case," she said, "fourteen State Legislatures in the past
year have considered bills for shortening the workday for women and
six have enacted laws for it. South Carolina has taken a step backward
by changing the hours from ten to twelve. Child labor is constantly
increasing in spite of our efforts. I have seen the evolution of
modern industry and it has meant the sacrifice of thousands of young
lives." At the close of the afternoon session the delegates enjoyed
an automobile ride of many miles amidst scenery which many who had
travelled widely declared was unsurpas