t at last the tide of woman's enfranchisement is
coming in.

Mrs. Catt described the influence the Alliance had had in these
changes and said: "We have been baptised in that spirit of the 20th
century which the world calls Internationalism; it is a sentiment like
love or religion or patriotism, which is to be experienced rather than
defined in words. Under the influence of this new spirit we realize
that we are not enlisted for the work of our own countries alone but
that before us stretches the task of emancipating the women of the
civilized world...." The brilliant Congress of Women held in Russia in
spite of its reactionary government was described, and the women of
Finland were urged not to be discouraged because the iron rule of
Russia was again threatening their recently gained liberty. The
progress in other European countries was sketched and the address then
dealt unsparingly with the situation in Great Britain, where the women
for years had organized and worked for the candidates of the political
parties, and continued:

If the women of England have time enough to solicit votes for the
men of their party and intelligence enough to train men to vote;
if they do not neglect their homes and families when their
political parties direct them to act as catspaws to pull the
political chestnuts out of the fire and to put them into the
Conservative and Liberal baskets, the world wants to know how
these political parties are going to escape from the logic of the
situation when these same women ask some of the chestnuts for
themselves. Again, this nation was presided over for sixty years
by a woman, and she was accounted worthy to present an annual
Parliamentary Address in which she pointed out the duty of the
members of Parliament. Now the outside world wants to know how
that Parliament can consistently say that other British women are
not even worthy to cast a vote to elect that body. There is still
another reason why the world is watching England. The British
Colonies have enfranchised women; how is the Home Government to
explain the phenomenon of women, enfranchised in Australia, then
disfranchised in England; enfranchised in New Zealand and
disfranchised when they return to the mother country?

She called attention to the forming of the Anti-Suffrage Association
by women in Great Britain and said: "They are sending