ve helped the women to the suffrage if the women had not
shown that they understood the public questions of the day and taken
an active part in resistance to an unlawful regime." She told of the
election of nineteen women to Parliament in 1907. Mrs. Zeneide
Mirovitch said in her touching report: "The women of Russia have not
been able to work as those in other countries do, for their members
are often in danger of imprisonment or death. They have lecturers who
travel about to hold meetings; they publish a review of the work of
their Union; members of it have started clubs which carry on general
work for women's betterment. They have sold very cheaply 10,000
suffrage pamphlets; they have a committee in St. Petersburg which
watches the acts of the Douma and when a law is proposed which
concerns women and yet fails to consider them, this committee reminds
the members of their needs. It protests against the massacres and
outrages when women are assaulted and tortured. Now during the
reaction the Union is not permitted to work in any way."

Mrs. Dora Montefiore of England spoke in favor of "militant" methods.
An invitation to send fraternal delegates had been declined by Mrs.
Emmeline Pankhurst for the Women's Social and Political Union of Great
Britain, who said they had more important work to do. It had been
accepted by Mrs. Despard, president of the Womens' Freedom League, who
came with seven delegates. She explained that its methods consisted
only of trying to enter the House of Commons, holding meetings near
by, heckling Government candidates, refusing to pay taxes, chalking
pavements, etc. Mrs. Cobden Sanderson and Mrs. Billington Greig made
vigorous, convincing speeches and all were enthusiastically received.
The congress adopted a resolution of "protest against the action of
any government which classes the women suffragists imprisoned for
agitation for the vote as common law-breakers instead of political
offenders." It also expressed its "sympathy for the Russian women in
their struggle demanding so much sacrifice and its profound respect
for the women who under great trial do not hesitate to stand for their
rights." A message was received with applause during one session that
"the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church has resolved unanimously
to give a vote to women on the questions that have until now been
submitted only to the men of the congregation."

The evening meetings were largely given up to addresses