lear, far-reaching
voice a song composed by himself.

The presiding officer stated that the gains of the last
half-century in all lines relating to women were largely due to
the guest of the occasion and her fellow-workers, and said: "When
Miss Anthony began her labors there were practically no
organizations of women; now they are numbered by thousands. The
crown of the whole is the union of all organizations, the
National Council of Women. Its president will now address us."

Mrs. Gaffney said in her tribute:

....The Christian world reckoned by centuries is just coming of
age. Therefore women are beginning to put away childish things
and to realize the greatness of womanhood. They have had to let
ideals wait. They submitted to conditions because they were
afraid that if they did not man would take to the woods and
become again a wild barbarian. They were flattered by the fact
that men liked them as they were, and they failed to realize that
their power to civilize was God-given.

They needed a leader to rally them, to give them the courage of
their convictions; and such a leader Miss Anthony has been. She
spoke to the world in tones which rang out so clear and true that
they will echo down the centuries. Some who had been protected
and petted were slow to rally; others who had broader views
accepted sooner the doctrine of rights--not privileges--of rights
for all women. Miss Anthony taught us the sisterhood of woman,
and that the privileges of one class could not offset the wrongs
of another....

Mrs. Sewall, president of the International Council of Women, composed
of the Councils of thirteen nations, and the largest organization of
women in the world, said in part:

It is proper that the International Council should remember today
"to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's," and to pay
tribute to the organization which it may not regard as other than
its direct progenitor. There are certain incidents, simple in
themselves, in which probably the actors are always at the time
quite unconscious of their perennial significance, and yet which
become landmarks in the evolution of the human spirit. Such are
Thermopylae and Marathon and Bunker Hill. Such was that first
convention at Seneca Falls.... The light from that meeting,
springi