utations of one society alone have been
arrested....

The Earl of Lytton said the other day that more violence had been
done by the men during the three weeks of the recent election
than by the women during their entire agitation. Such action on
the part of voters is wrong for they have a constitutional way,
through the ballot, of redressing their grievances, but on the
part of a disfranchised class, after half a century's trial has
proved all their methods to be of no avail, a protest such as
these women have made seems entirely right. We are so close at
hand that perhaps we hardly realize the full significance of
their movement. The greatest drama that is being enacted in the
world today, it seems to me, is the battle of the British women.
When historians can look back from the perspective of a century
or two I think they will say that this talk of dreadnaughts and
budgets and House of Lords was after all of but little moment and
that the great event of world significance in Great Britain early
in the century was the magnificent struggle for political freedom
on the part of her women.

The comprehensive report of the corresponding secretary, Professor
Potter, filled ten pages of the printed Minutes and was a complete
summary of the year's work and that which should be done. Names were
given of about forty associations which had passed resolutions for
woman suffrage during the year, preceded usually by discussion. These
included Federations of Labor, Granges, Temperance Societies,
Federations of Women's Clubs, religious bodies and labor
organizations. Among the last were the International Typographical
Union, International Chair Workers, Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employees, American Federation of Labor, National
Women's Trade Union League and many others. She called attention to
the fact that in many instances the endorsement was unanimous and that
the labor resolutions were stronger than ever before, using the phrase
"our intention to secure woman suffrage." The Pennsylvania Federation
said: "In selecting candidates for political office we will endeavor
to secure men who are committed to a belief in the right of women to
vote."

Professor Potter emphasized the need of research experts to bring the
statistics up to date, as it was now impossible to answer the requests
for information from the best