nt Atlantic,
Gulf and Pacific Tea Co., U. S. A. A suffrage song written by K. G.
Ossian-Nillson and the music composed by Hugo Alfven for the occasion
was sung by the Women's Choir of Goeteborg, after which an official
delegate of the Government extended its greeting while the audience
rose and the flags of the nations waved from the galleries. Mrs. Catt
received an ovation as she came to the front of the platform to make
her address. It filled twenty-three pages of the printed minutes and
was a complete resume of the early position of women, the vast changes
that had been wrought and the great work which the Alliance was doing.
Only a few quotations are possible:

In the recent debate on the bill in the Swedish Parliament a
university professor said in a tone of eloquent finality: "The
woman suffrage movement has reached and passed its climax; the
suffrage wave is now rapidly receding." With patronizing air,
more droll than he could know, the gentleman added: "We have
permitted this movement to come thus far but we shall allow it to
go no farther." Thus another fly resting upon the proverbial
wheel of progress commanded it to turn no more. This man engages
our attention because he is a representative of a type to be
found in all our lands; wise men on the wrong side of a great
question, modern Joshuas who command the sun to stand still and
believe that it will obey.

Long centuries before the birth of Darwin an old-time Hindoo
wrote: "I stand on a river's bank. I know not whence the waters
come or whither they go. So deep and silent is its current that I
know not whether it flows north or south; all is mystery to me;
but when I climb yon summit the river becomes a silver thread
weaving its length in and out among the hills and over the
plains. I see it all from its source in yonder mountain to its
outlet in yonder sea. There is no more mystery." So these
university professors buried in school books, these near-sighted
politicians, fail to note the meaning of passing events. To them
the woman movement is an inexplicable mystery, but to us standing
upon the summit of international union, where we may observe
every manifestation of this movement in all parts of the world,
there is no mystery. From its sources ages ago, amid the protests
which we know barbaric women must have made against