ave the honor of
introducing to you Penloe and Stella, the leaders of the C.I., who will
address you this evening."

When Penloe and Stella came forward the whole audience rose and saluted
them.

In regard to the meeting, we will quote a few extracts from one of the
Los Angeles dailies: "However various the views on the C.I. the audience
may have which heard Penloe and Stella last night, there can be but one
thought in regard to the speakers themselves, and that is they are the
two most remarkable and distinguished personalities that ever appeared
before a Los Angeles audience. As speakers, they are brilliant, logical
and impressive, and soon inspire you with their sincerity of purpose and
with confidence in themselves. It seems there _is tacked on to the C.I.
'Woman's Suffrage'_, for it is claimed that a woman is still in bondage
till she stands equal before the law, and has all the rights and
privileges that a man has.

"Penloe's remarks were addressed more particularly to men, looking at
the C.I. from the standpoint of a man, while Stella presented the
woman's view.

"Penloe put these questions to the men of the audience: 'Is there a man
here to-night who does not think that the average woman is as
intelligent as the average man? Is there a man here to-night who does
not think that woman has a divine nature the same as man? I would like
to see the man rise in this audience who thinks he has a divine nature,
but does not wish another being who has a divine nature to enjoy the
same privileges as he himself enjoys?'... Stella portrayed in a telling
manner the sufferings and misery which have been woman's lot through
being in bondage to her material form.... We here give a few notes from
Stella's address:

"A woman who is in bondage to her material form can never rise above the
idea that she is just a woman and nothing more."

"A woman to be free must have a higher idea of herself than that she is
only a woman."

"A woman can only advance as her thought concerning herself advances."

"When woman looks upon herself as an intellectual and spiritual being,
and not as just being a woman only, and her whole thought is to adorn
her mind and manifest the qualities of her soul, then will man look upon
her with the same eyes as she looks upon herself."

"It is not man that keeps woman in bondage, but woman keeps herself in
bondage through the thought she has concerning herself."... "Stella
said we are not here on a fl