att referred to the granting of full suffrage and eligibility to
women by Norway in 1907 and continued:

Within the past two years appeals for woman suffrage have been
presented to the Parliaments of eighteen European governments;
the United States Congress and the Legislatures of twenty-nine
States; the Parliaments of Canada and Victoria and the
Legislature of the Philippines--fifty-one independent legislative
bodies. The appeals were made for the first time, I believe, in
twelve of the European countries. In Spain and the Philippines
bills were introduced by friends of the cause quite unknown to
national or international officers. This activity has not been
barren of results and the delegates of six countries come to this
congress vested with larger political rights than they possessed
at the time of the Copenhagen meeting, namely, Norway, Denmark,
Sweden, Iceland, England and Germany. Each of the five
Scandinavian lands has won something. Norwegian women come with
full suffrage rights; Finnish delegates come as representatives
of the only nation which has elected women to seats in its
Parliament; Sweden and Iceland have gained a step in eligibility
and our Icelandic delegate of two years ago is now a member of
the city council of Reykjavik, the capital. The women of Denmark,
next to those of Norway, have made the largest gain, as Municipal
suffrage with liberal qualifications has been bestowed upon them.
English women have secured eligibility to become Mayors and
members of town and county councils. Germany has revised its law
and women are now free to join political associations and to
organize woman suffrage societies. The German association
affiliated with the Alliance is now a federation of State bodies.
In Sweden within two years the membership in the organization has
doubled and the 63 local organizations reported at Copenhagen
have become 127. A petition of 142,128 names has been presented
to Parliament; deputations have waited upon the Government and
been granted hearings.

A thorough analysis was made of the present status of woman suffrage
throughout the world and in summing up the speaker said: "Although
from Occident to Orient, from Lapland to sunny Italy and from Canada
to South Africa the agitation for woman suffrage has known no pause,
yet, after a