hence to the
whole race.

3. In all lands those laws, creeds and customs which have tended
to restrict women to a position of dependence, to discourage
their education, to impede the development of their natural gifts
and to subordinate their individuality have been based upon false
theories and have produced an artificial and unjust relation of
the sexes in modern society.

4. Self-government in the home and the State is the inalienable
right of every normal adult and the refusal of this right to
women has resulted in social, legal and economic injustice to
them and has also intensified the existing economic disturbances
throughout the world.

5. Governments which impose taxes and laws upon their women
citizens without giving them the right of consent or dissent
which is granted to men citizens exercise a tyranny inconsistent
with just government.

6. The ballot is the only legal and permanent means of defending
the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
pronounced inalienable by the American Declaration of
Independence and accepted as inalienable by all civilized
nations. In any representative form of government, therefore,
women should be vested with all the political rights and
privileges of electors.

ORGANIZATION OF THE ALLIANCE.

The International Woman Suffrage Committee, which had been formed at a
conference in Washington, D. C., in February, 1902, and adjourned to
meet in Berlin in June, 1904, was called to order on June 3, in the
Prince Albert Hotel by the chairman, Miss Susan B. Anthony, who was
warmly greeted by the women of all countries. The following report of
this and subsequent meetings is condensed from the Minutes:

The program arranged by the officers was adopted as the order of
business. Dr. jur. Anita Augsburg of the German Suffrage Association
delivered a cordial address of welcome and Miss Anthony, in behalf of
the visiting delegates, responded. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt presented
a gavel from the women of Wyoming, who have enjoyed the right of full
suffrage longer than any other women in the world.

Dr. phil. Kaethe Schirmacher of Germany was appointed official
interpreter; Miss Adelheid von Welczeck of Germany was made assistant
secretary and was also appointed on the committee on credentials with
Dr. Aletta Jacobs of Holland and Miss Edith Palliser of