sible for the acts of its individual members.

Many other questions were asked, the committee seeming incredulous
that suffragists would fight the re-election of their friends. The
next speaker was Miss Alice Stone Blackwell whose address consisted in
a solid array of facts and figures that were absolutely unanswerable.
As the daughter of Lucy Stone and editor of the _Woman's Journal_ from
girlhood she was fortified beyond all others with information as to
the progress of woman suffrage; the connection of the liquor interests
with its many defeats; the statistics of the votes that had been taken
and all phases of the subject. Mrs. Harriet Stokes Thompson, an
educator and social worker of Chicago, said in part:

I wish to make my appeal this morning to both your intellect and
your sympathies when I speak to you in behalf of the nine million
women who are out today assuming their part in the industrial
world. These women who are working in the shops and factories
have simply followed the evolution of industry. It is not that
they have entered into man's work at all, because they are doing
what they formerly did in their homes, and I am asking today that
you give to them power to protect themselves. Those girls working
there now are the mothers of the generation to come and that they
may be well protected in their hours of labor, in the conditions
under which they work, that they may become mothers of healthy
children in the future, we are asking that they may speak with
authority through legislative chambers.... I wish to appeal to
you, too, for another large group of women, the teachers of the
United States. I myself am one of those who stand before the
children of this great nation day after day. The teachers should
be made citizens in order that they may keep both the letter and
the spirit of this democratic country in their teachings. I have
lived in my own State to know the difference in the spirit with
which you teach citizenship when you yourself are a citizen. A
slave cannot teach freedom, cannot comprehend the spirit of
freedom; neither can a woman who is not a citizen comprehend the
spirit of true citizenship. The teachers of Illinois since they
were enfranchised have come to their work with a new life, a new
zest and a new responsibility and we expect to send the boys out
with a fin