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delegates that their suffrage societies had united in national
associations and desired to become affiliated, they were
enthusiastically accepted. Mrs. Stanton Coit of London, the new
treasurer, paid a tribute to her predecessor, Miss Rodger Cunliffe,
who had died since the last conference. Mrs. Pedersen-Dan reported
that 8,677 badges had been sold. Many interesting discussions took
place during the morning and afternoon sessions of which one of the
most valuable was on the methods of work for the suffrage pursued in
the various countries. These methods included debates in schools and
colleges, distribution of literature, petitions to the Parliament,
circulating libraries, courses of lectures, house-to-house canvassing,
protests against paying taxes, mass meetings to show the need of a
vote in matters of public welfare. In nearly all countries the
suffragists were taking political action, questioning candidates by
letter and in person and in some places working for or against them.
This was especially the case in Great Britain and Miss Frances
Sterling and Miss Isabella O. Ford told of the successful work at
by-elections, of having thousands of postal cards sent to candidates
by their constituents, of appealing to the workingmen. A report of the
speech of Miss Margaret Ashton, a member of the city council of
Manchester, quoted her as saying that, though the president of a large
body of Liberal women, she had decided that it was useless to work
further for her party unless it would enfranchise women. Women had
worked sixty years for this party and now, if they will gain their own
liberty, they must refuse to lift hand or foot for it until it
enfranchises them.

Mrs. Rutgers Hoitsema of the Netherlands told of the efforts made to
have woman suffrage put in its new constitution; of winning six of the
seven members of the Government Commission and of the request of the
Prime Minister for favorable printed arguments. Miss Annie Furuhjelm
said in her report for Finland: "We got our suffrage through a
revolution, so we can not be an example for other lands as to methods.
We can say, however, that we used all methods in our work. In 1904 we
had a great public meeting for woman suffrage. We organized a 'strike'
against the conscription for the Russian Army and we found the mothers
interested in saving their sons. The Social Democrats had woman
suffrage in their platform before 1905 but the leading men of Finland
would not ha