lsey (Ky.)
spoke on Republics versus Women, the title of her book; Mrs. Meta L.
Stern on Woman Suffrage from a Socialist's Point of View; Miss Alice
Paul on The English Situation. Mrs. Catt's subject was Caught in a
Snare and the convention voted to have it printed for circulation. As
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell was ill at home, missing the annual
convention for the first time, the readers of the _Woman's Journal_
were deprived of her usual comprehensive reports and abstracts of the
speeches where the manuscript was not available. That of Miss Paul was
published in full. She had recently returned from London, where she
had been a member of Mrs. Pankhurst's organization, had been sent to
prison, had gone on a "hunger strike" and been forcibly fed, and she
felt the situation keenly. A part of her speech was as follows:

As we gather here as suffragists, our hearts naturally go out to
those women at the storm-center of our movement--to those women
in Great Britain who are having a struggle such as women have
never had in any other land. The violent criticism, the
suppression and distortion of facts from which they have suffered
at the hands of the politically-inspired press of their own
country have made it difficult for one on this side to gain any
true conception of their movement....

The essence of the campaign of the suffragettes is opposition to
the Government. The country seems willing that the vote be
extended to women. This last Parliament showed its willingness by
passing their franchise bill through its second reading by a
three-to-one majority, but the Government, that little group
which controls legislation, would not let it become law. It is
not a war of women against men, for the men are helping loyally,
but a war of men and women together against the politicians at
the head, who because of their own political interests seem
afraid to enfranchise women. The suffragettes have gone with
petitions to the head of the Government, as our representatives
will go in a few days to the authorities in Washington. Here they
will be received with courtesy, but Mr. Asquith has never since
he has been Prime Minister received a deputation of women on this
question of their suffrage. Each time he curtly refuses to see
them and orders the police to drive them away or arrest them.
Thirteen times the dep