atisfied with the general progress, and said
in conclusion:

We have been like an army climbing slowly and laboriously up a
steep and rocky mountain. We have looked upward and have seen
uncertain stretches of time and effort between us and the longed
for summit. We have not been discouraged for behind us lay fifty
years of marvelous achievement. We have known that we should
reach that goal but we have also known that there was no way to
do it but to plod on patiently, step by step. Yet suddenly,
almost without warning, we see upon that summit another army. How
came it there? It has neither descended from heaven nor made the
long, hard journey, yet there above us all the women of Finland
stand today. Each wears the royal crown of the sovereignty of the
self-governing citizen. Two years ago these women would not have
been permitted by the law to organize a woman suffrage
association. A year later they did organize a woman suffrage
committee and before it is yet a year old its work is done! The
act giving full suffrage and eligibility to all offices has been
bestowed upon them by the four Chambers of Parliament and the
Czar has approved the measure! Metaphorically a glad shout of joy
has gone up from the whole body of suffragists the world over.

Mrs. Catt presided at every public and every business meeting and hers
was the guiding spirit and the controlling hand. By her ability and
fairness she won the entire confidence of the delegates from twelve
countries and launched successfully this organization which many had
believed impossible because of the differences in language,
temperament and methods.

Throughout the meetings twenty-minute addresses were made by prominent
women of the different countries, some of them reports of the
organized work, others on subjects of special interest to women, among
them The Ideal Woman, Miss Eline Hansen; What Woman Suffrage Is Not,
Dr. Schirmacher; Women Jurors of Norway, Miss Moerck; Woman's Horizon,
Mrs. Flora MacDonald Denison, Canada; The Silent Foe, Dr. Anna Howard
Shaw; What Are Women to Do?, Dr. Jacobs; Our Victory, Miss Annie
Furuhjelm, Finland; Why the Working Woman Needs the Ballot, Mrs.
Andrea Brachmann, Denmark; Why the Women of Australia Asked for and
Received the Suffrage, sent by Miss Vida Goldstein and read by Mrs.
Madge Donohoe.

Others besides the officers and those abo