omen in Finland and Iceland. Telegrams of greeting were received from
societies and individuals in twenty-five different cities of Europe.
About one hundred delegates and alternates from twelve countries were
present.

Several sessions were filled to overflowing with these greetings and
the reports from the various countries of the progress made by women
in the contest for their civil, legal and political rights. As
published in the Minutes, filling 55 pages, these reports formed a
remarkable and significant chapter in the world's history. Mrs. Catt
was in the chair on the first afternoon and a cordial welcome was
extended by the presidents of five Danish organizations of women: Miss
Alberti, Mrs. Louise Hansen, Mrs. Louise Norlund, Mrs. Jutta Bojsen
Moller and Miss Henni Forchhammer for the National Council of Women.
Dr. jur. Anita Augspurg of Germany, the first vice-president,
responded for the Alliance. She was followed by Mrs. Catt, who, in her
president's address, after describing in full the forming of the
Alliance, gave a comprehensive report of the progress toward
organizing suffrage associations in the various countries during the
past two years and the growth and future prospects of the
international movement. She touched a responsive chord in every heart
when she said:

Since we last met our cause has sustained a signal loss in the
death of our honorary president, Susan B. Anthony. She has been
the inspirer of our movement in many lands and we may justly say
that her labors belonged to all the world. She passed in the
ripeness of years and with a life behind her which counted not a
wasted moment nor a selfish thought. When one thinks of her it
must be with the belief that she was born and lived to perform an
especial mission. All who knew her well mourn her and long will
they miss her wise counsel, her hearty cheerfulness and her
splendid optimism. There has been no important national suffrage
meeting in the United States for half a century and no
international meeting of significance at any time in which she
has not been a conspicuous figure. This is the first to meet
without her. We must hope that her spirit will be with us and
inspire our deliberations with the same lofty purpose and noble
energy which governed all her labors.

Mrs. Catt reviewed the movement for woman suffrage, declaring that the
most ambitious should be s