lineator, Designer, New Idea, Harper's Bazar, La Follette's
Magazine, the Springfield Republican: editors of Current
Literature, Philadelphia Record, Cincinnati Commercial Tribune,
New York Herald, New York Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Baltimore
American, Minneapolis News, Cincinnati Post and numerous other
newspapers over the country. These publications reach millions of
readers.

There are on this list the names of many persons who, although
authors or magazine writers, are still more distinguished in
other lines of work, as William James and George Herbert Palmer
of Harvard; Graham Taylor and Shailer Matthews of the University
of Chicago; Simon N. Patten of the University of Pennsylvania;
and other professors from the universities of Harvard, Chicago,
Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Cornell and Columbia, and from Oberlin,
Vassar and Wellesley. The great families of Hawthorne, Chanler
and Beecher are represented by living descendants who are
carrying on the literary traditions which must ever be associated
with those names. The late Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the
Century, published a tribute to Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi after her
death. In this he said in substance that the American women who
had most conspicuously united rare intelligence with rare
goodness were Josephine Shaw Lowell, founder of the New York
Charity Organization; Alice Freeman Palmer, president of
Wellesley College, and Dr. Jacobi. Mr. Gilder was an
anti-suffragist. The three women whom he thus placed at the
pinnacle of American womanhood were all strong suffragists.

The women whose names are on this list represent brains and
character; they represent that element of American womanhood
which is winning its own way successfully in the great world of
competition and strenuous endeavor; influencing the minds and
molding the public opinion of the country through their books and
through the press. There may be those among you, gentlemen, who
are opposed to suffrage, but I am sure there is not one who would
not be glad to know that his daughter was a woman of this type if
it so happened that he was obliged to leave her unprovided for.
There is one girl, Jean Webster, who made $4,000 on one book the
year she left college. There is one woman, Mary Johnston, who was
paid $20,000 in a