to
be forgotten by the visitors or the residents, and the convention
undoubtedly gave a decided impetus to favorable sentiment for woman
suffrage in that section of the South.

FOOTNOTES:

[23] Part of Call: The association goes to New Orleans in response to
an invitation from the Progressive Union, the Era Club of women and
many prominent individuals. It is especially appropriate that the
advocates of this important reform should assemble in Louisiana in
honor of the action taken by this State in 1898, when its
constitutional convention incorporated a clause giving to tax-paying
women a vote on all questions of taxation submitted to the electors;
and in commemoration of the splendid use they made of this privilege
at the election held to secure to New Orleans the completion of its
drainage and the establishment of a sewerage system and free water
supply....

Never in the fifty years of this movement have its advocates had such
a victory to record as was achieved in Australia in June, 1902, when
almost the first act of Parliament of the new Federation of States was
to confer the full national suffrage with the right to a seat in the
Parliament on all qualified women of the entire commonwealth. This one
act enfranchised about 800,000. These added to those of New Zealand
and of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho, it will be found that
1,125,000 English-speaking women are at the present time in possession
of the complete suffrage and all except those of Wyoming have been
enfranchised within the past ten years. By adding to these the women
of Great Britain and Ireland, who have all except the Parliamentary
vote, those of Kansas with Municipal, of Louisiana, Montana, and New
York with the Tax-payers' and of over one-half of the States with the
school ballot, the 1,125,000 will be multiplied several times....

It is, therefore, with courage and hope inspired by the glorious
promise of the new century for greater material and moral progress in
all directions than the world has ever known, that the advocates of
this measure, which ultimately will affect the destinies of the whole
American people, are called in convention to review the labor of the
past year, to plan that of the future, to strengthen the old
comradeship and greet new workers and friends.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Honorary President.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, President.
ANNA HOWARD SHAW, Vice-