dialects of all nations. Not only are the different parts
represented in their economic and industrial products, but
each thought, idea, motive and need is brought before the
world in the various congresses assembled during this great
union festival of liberty, peace and labor. Literature,
science, religion, education, philosophy, and labor, each
has had its eloquent advocates. At this time, when the great
ones of the earth are met together in earnest thought and
honest discussion, when each mind and conscience is attuned
to the highest motive, how appropriate that woman, whose
labor, wealth and brain have cemented the stones in every
monument that man has reared to himself; that woman, the
oppressed, woman, the hater of wars, the faithful, quiet
drudge of the centuries, watching while others slept,
working while others plundered and murdered; woman, who has
died in prison and on the scaffold for liberty, should here
and now have her audience and her advocates.

As a child of America I love and venerate France. We cannot
forget LaFayette, although a hundred years have passed since
generous France sent him to our aid in our great struggle
for freedom. But as a woman I glory in her. [Great and
deafening applause.] All true women love and honor France.
[At this point the reader was interrupted with wild cries of
"Bravo! bravo!" "Live America!" "True, true."] France, in
whose prolific soil great and progressive ideas generate and
take root, in spite of king, emperor, priest or tyrant;
France, the protectress of science, art, and philosophy;
France, the home of the scholar and thinker; France, the
asylum which generously received the women who came hither
seeking those intellectual advantages and privileges cruelly
denied them at home; France, that compelled republican
America and civilized England to open their educational
institutions to women; France, the birth-place of a host of
women whose splendid genius, devoted lives, and heroic
deaths have encouraged and inspired women of other lands in
their struggles to strike off the ignominious shackles which
the ages h