ne Bartlett Crane (Mich.)
presented A New Phase of Home Rule for Cities, saying in conclusion:
"Politics at its best is a noble profession in which we earnestly
desire to engage. Woman's age-long experience in home-making and
mothering of children has fitted her for politics just as well as have
man's activities in trade fitted him."

Dr. Shaw introduced Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, Chief of the Government
Bureau of Chemistry, as "the man who is trying to get us women a fair
chance to live," and he jokingly answered that in view of the swift
advance of the woman suffrage movement it was a question whether men
would continue to have a chance to live. His topic was Woman's
Influence in Public Affairs, "which," he said, "are the summing up of
private affairs." In his address he said:

I am not a newcomer myself. My first suffrage address was made in
1877. I believe it is almost useless to work on us old folks. The
reforms in our politics and ethics must begin with the children.
Educate them to the right and justice of woman suffrage even
before they are born. Instill the idea in them at school; see
that they get the proper kind of an education. Women have done
wonders in securing our splendid system of public schools....
Women have intellect enough and some to spare. What we want is
more ethics. A sense of justice and right is just as important to
this country as intellectual strength. Women have the instinct of
right. I have never known an organized body of women to be on the
wrong side of a public question, although as individuals women
sometimes get the wrong point of view, just as men are prone to
do. I want equal suffrage because it is right. I want it also
because it would have a great effect on woman's influence in
public affairs and would help powerfully to get the right thing
done. The very fact that woman had the vote would be a
restraining and elevating influence. The women have been a tower
of strength to every official in this country who has tried to do
his duty. Take the question of pure food: I could tell you by the
hour of the support that I have had from women and women's
organizations. I should despair if I thought that the women did
not stand for pure food.

We have in this country problems which I almost fear to face.
Among them is the great problem of the relation between the
w