at the gracious act may be consummated which
will admit us to the place that henceforth befits us, that of
equal participants with you in the sovereignty of the people. Do
this in the spirit of that mercy whose quality is not strained.
Remember that the neglect of justice brings with it the direst
retribution. Make your debt to us a debt of honor, and pay it in
that spirit; if you do not pay it, dread the proportions which
its arrears will assume. Remember that he who has the power to do
justice and refrains from doing it, will presently find it doing
itself, to his no small discomfiture....

Women, trained for the moral warfare of the time, armed with the
fine instincts which are their birthright, are not doomed to sit
forever as mere spectators in these great encounters of society.
They are to deserve the crown as well as to bestow it; to meet
the powers of darkness with the powers of light; to bring their
potent aid to the eternal conquest of right. And let me say here
to those women who not only hang back from this encounter but who
throw obstacles in the way of true reform and progress, that the
shallow ground upon which they stand is within the belt of the
moral earthquake, and that what they build upon it will be
overthrown....

The Rev. Miss Shaw, in an address filled with humor as well as logic,
treated of Our Unconscious Allies, among whom she included clergymen
who oppose equal suffrage, the women remonstrants with their weak
documents, the colleges which try to keep out girls, and the many
cases of outrage and wrong committed by "our motherless Government."
The Rev. Olympia Brown replied to the question, Where is the Mistake?
With great power and earnestness she pointed out the mistakes made by
our Government during the century of its existence and demanded the
correction of the greatest one of all--the exclusion of women.

The address of Mrs. Zerelda G. Wallace (Ind.), A Whole Humanity,
aroused the universal sympathy and appreciation of the audience,
permeated as it was with the spirit of love, charity and justice:

....The animus of this movement for woman's freedom has been
mistaken in the idea that it meant competition between women and
men; to my thought it simply means co-operation in the work of
the world. The man is to bring the physical forces, and he has
done that work ma