er Louisiana
for three years."

The talented young lawyer, Miss Gail Laughlin (Me.), gave an address
entitled The Open Door, during which she said:

Suffrage is not the ultimate end but it is the golden door of
opportunity. Through the open door of suffrage the mother may
follow her child and still guard him after he passes the
threshold of home, and through it she can extend a helping hand
to mothers whose children toil in the mills of Alabama, the
factories of the eastern States and the sweat-shops of New York.
Through this door the protected women of the world may go out to
bind up the wounds of those who have fallen in the battle of
life.... The old-fashioned Chinese man thought his wife was not
beautiful unless she had little feet on which she could not walk.
Some of the young Chinese are learning that it is pleasanter for
a man to have a wife who can walk by his side. Formerly men
thought it desirable that a woman's mind should be cramped. The
modern man is beginning to find that it is more satisfactory to
have for a wife a woman whose mind can keep pace with his.... It
is more womanly and dignified for women to sit in legislative
halls than to stand around the lobbies.... This exclusion of
woman from the government today is a relic of the dark ages when
they were regarded as appendages to men and it was even doubted
if they had a soul. Men and women must rise or fall together and
travel the pathway of life side by side. We shall not attain to
the heights of freedom unless we have free mothers as well as
free fathers, free daughters as well as free sons.

One of the notable addresses of the convention was that of the eminent
physician, Dr. Henry Dixon Bruns--a lifelong advocate of woman
suffrage--on Liberty, Male and Female, a part of which was as follows:

I can conceive of but one watchword for a free people. It is
written between the lines of our own constitution and underlies
the institutions of every liberal government: "Equal rights and
opportunities for all; special privileges to none," understanding
by this that the Government shall protect all in the enjoyment of
their natural rights--life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness--and that all who measure up to a certain standard
shall have a voice in shaping the policy and choosing the agents
of