them but for
some time was unable to think of the eighth. At last he
remembered; it was the American. The ballot in the hands of our
present voters might be improved by the intelligence that the
great body of Michigan women would bring to it. We are beginning
to appreciate the solidarity of women. When one State wins
suffrage, all the others are gainers by it. The good of this
meeting will go abroad over the country.

MRS. KEATING: ....In the happy tone of welcome that you may hear
rising from all parts of our State the club women join, with
voices 9,000 strong. We have never been happier than now, even
during the annual club elections, amid the joy and intelligence
of the club ballot. Your fame has preceded you.

MRS. BENJAMIN: The W. C. T. U. of Michigan numbers about 9,000
active members, and I bring you the greeting of your white-ribbon
sisters. We welcome not only you but your principles, and your
avowed determination to conquer before you die. A good mother
works in the home, but she would not wish to be forbidden to
cross the threshold. For the good of her child, she needs
sometimes to cross it. A mother should guard her child outside
the home as well as in it. Every mother worthy of the name wishes
to protect her own child from vice, and her duty extends to her
neighbor's child also. Equal suffrage is coming, friends, and
coming soon.

MRS. BURNS: I bring you the welcome of the 45,000 Ladies of the
Maccabees. Times have greatly changed in Michigan since seventy
years ago, when the Indian squaws did all the manual labor, and
the braves limited themselves to the noble task of hunting. There
has been a corresponding change in the condition of women all
along the line.

In the response of Miss Susan B. Anthony, the national president, she
said:

Since our last convention the area of disfranchisement in the
possessions of the United States has been greatly enlarged. Our
nation has undertaken to furnish provisional governments for
Hawaii and the Philippine Islands, Cuba and Porto Rico. Hitherto
the settlers of new Territories have been permitted to frame
their own provisional governments, which were ratified by
Congress, but to-day Congress itself assumes the prerogative of
making the laws for the newly-acquired Territories. When