order have
never been construed into an argument against man suffrage, we protest
against the practice of the opponents of woman suffrage to interpret
'militancy' employed by the minority in one country as an excuse for
withholding the vote from the women of the world." At another time
Mrs. Cobden Sanderson of Great Britain, speaking as a fraternal
delegate, eulogized the self-sacrifice of the "militants" as the
principal factor in the movement, and Mrs. Catt, speaking from the
chair, said that she would like to answer the assertion that it was
only the "militant" women who were the martyrs. To the women who had
made such protests had come the glory, whereas there were thousands
who had given their lives to the cause whose names had never been
heard. All down the centuries there had been heroines and martyrs and
many of them had stood alone. She believed the movement owed a great
debt to the "militant" women of Great Britain but they were only a
part of it.

Mrs. Catt introduced and urged a resolution "to send from this
congress a request to the Governments of all countries here
represented to institute an international inquiry into the cause and
extent of commercialized vice, and to ask the woman suffrage
organizations in each country to petition their own Government to
institute a national inquiry and to include women in the Commission."
The resolution was unanimously adopted. Mrs. Catt was appointed to
represent the Alliance at the approaching International White Slave
Traffic Congress in London. A very able address, showing a thorough
study of the question, was made by Mrs. Fawcett, who presided at the
meeting held to discuss What Women Voters Have Done towards the
Solution of this Problem.

The usual important reports of the progress in all the affiliated
countries were presented and ordered published in the Minutes, where
they filled over sixty pages. Miss Schwimmer in reporting for Hungary
said:

At the time of the founding of the International Woman Suffrage
Alliance there was nothing even approaching a feminist movement
in Hungary, yet the recent Reform Bill which has just passed the
two Houses includes a long and thorough explanation of the
usefulness and need of woman suffrage and apologies on the part
of the Government for not being able (owing to the present
precarious political situation) to grant it. The marked
inclination of the Government in favor of woman su