nment throughout the world; (4) Keep the faith in
self-government alive when it fails to meet expectations. Methods for
achieving these results were suggested and it was impressed on the
younger women that this would be their task, as the older ones had
practically finished their work. This address of surpassing eloquence
closed with these words:

God's order will come again to the world's stricken, unhappy,
much-suffering people. It will come because the divine law of
evolution never ceases to operate and the destiny of the race
leads eternally on without pause. So much sacrifice and sorrow as
the war has cost the world can not have been endured in vain....
As I view world politics the only possible hope for the
happiness, prosperity and permanent peace of the world lies in
the thorough democratization of all governments. There can be no
democratization which excludes women and no safe or sound
democracy which is not based upon an educated, intelligent
electorate. Nor is it enough to establish democracy in individual
nations--it must be extended to world politics. The old
militarism must go and with it the old diplomacy, with its secret
treaties, distrust and intrigues. No League of Nations can
abolish war unless every government in the world is based on
democracy.

In our home countries we should urge support of every movement
for the extension of popular education, foster every agency which
helps men and women to think for themselves, promote every
endeavor to maintain honest elections, judicially conducted
campaigns and high ideals in parties and parliaments, for
democracy succeeds when and where independence and intelligence
are greatest.

A few of the delegates wished to disband the Alliance; a few others
desired to change the character of its objects, but by an overwhelming
majority it was voted to continue it along the original lines,
although broadened, until the women of all countries were
enfranchised. The Congress was held in the Maison Communale de
Plainpalais, the large town hall in a suburb of Geneva, and here one
evening its municipality gave a reception to the members. The shady
gardens and sunny terrace were the scene of many social
gatherings.[228] The congress opened with a roll call of the suffrage
victories and the responses showed the almost unbelievable record that
twenty countr