of anarchists. Oh, men, let justice
speak and may the public weal demand that this disfranchisement
of the noble American women shall be stopped.

Mrs. Catt then introduced to the committee Miss Isabel Campbell,
daughter of former Governor Campbell of Wyoming, who in 1869 signed
the bill which enfranchised the women of the Territory; Prof.
Theodosia Ammons of the Colorado University of Agriculture and Mrs.
Ida M. Weaver, a resident of Idaho. Each gave a comprehensive report
of the practical working of woman suffrage in her State; the large
proportion of women who voted; their appointment on boards and
election to offices; the result in improved polling places, better
candidates and cleaner politics; higher pay for working women; the
advantages to the community; the comradeship between men and women and
the general satisfaction of the people with the experiment. Their
reports as a whole offered unimpeachable testimony in favor of the
enfranchisement of women.

Mrs. Florence Fenwick Miller in her address said:

I have been asked to direct especially my attention to the
position of women in England. I hope you, as members of a
republic, will be ashamed to hear that the monarchy of England
gives its women citizens a great many rights which you deny to
yours, that we have had those rights for so many years that
nobody talks about them. When I am asked to give you testimony as
to the smooth working of the women's vote in all local affairs, I
am at a loss to know what to say, because it runs along so easily
and naturally, so like breathing the air in a thoroughly healthy
state of the lungs, that there is absolutely nothing to be said.
Men and women vote on equal terms and the woman's vote is as much
a matter of course as the man's.

The local government of England is divided among a number of
different bodies. We have the school boards, established in 1870,
which have managed the elementary education of the country, now
compulsory and free. They spend very large sums of the taxpayers'
money and for them every woman who pays taxes has a vote. Any
woman whom the electors choose is entitled to take a seat on
them. There are at present not only hundreds of thousands of
women voting for the school boards but there are 276 women
sitting as representatives upon those of England alone. I myself
have for nine yea