the
principles on which representative government rests, to the
teaching of the Bible, which Miss Laura Clay, in an able speech,
warmly claimed was on the side of equal rights for women. Mrs.
Zerelda G. Wallace, that noble mother in Israel, agreed with her,
though from a different point of view, while Frederick Douglass
claimed that the "Eternal Right exists independent of all books."

The Cincinnati press gave noticeably friendly and fair reports.
Hospitality to delegates was abundant. The sunny side of many of
the best people of the Queen City was evidently turned toward
this meeting. A distinguished member of the Hamilton County bar,
who had not been thoroughly converted before, said: "When you
come again, let me make the address of welcome!"

The annual report of the chairman of the executive committee stated
that the association had continued to supply with suffrage matter all
editors who would use it; and that to save postage this weekly
bulletin had been put into the form of a small newspaper, the _Woman's
Column_:

Its woman suffrage arguments come back to us in papers scattered
from Maine to California, and reach hundreds of thousands of
readers who would not take a paper devoted specifically to this
reform.... Twenty thousand suffrage leaflets were given to the
Rev. Anna H. Shaw, national lecturer for the American W. S. A.,
whose position as national superintendent of franchise for the W.
C. T. U. enables her to use them with great effect; 7,700 were
made a gift to the Ohio Centennial Exposition at Cincinnati with
hundreds of copies of the _Woman's Journal_ and _Woman's Column_;
also many to the exposition at Columbus; 1,000 leaflets were sent
to the meeting of the Wisconsin W. S. A. at Milwaukee, and 500 to
its recent meeting at Stevens Point; many were sent to the fair
at Ottumwa, Ia.; a large number were distributed at the annual
meeting of the National W. C. T. U. in New York, and smaller
quantities have been supplied for local use in almost all the
States and Territories. Several friends have made donations of
money for this purpose, and there is no way in which money goes
further or does more good. In August, the association began the
publication of a series of tracts under the title of the _Woman
Suffrage Leaflet_. The association has given $5