the vices of the world, are cares that mothers
have which no man's responsibility equals....

You are today among a citizenship on this coast that is very
fair, broad-minded and ready to assist your cause whenever
convinced that it will be an advantage and a betterment to our
present government. If it is fairly placed before the voters of
this commonwealth with a reasonable argument in its favor, there
is no doubt in my mind of its success. We are the only State that
has adopted the broad principle of government which permits the
citizens of the commonwealth to prepare and vote its own
legislation, by its own people, without aid or consent of any
other power. I refer to the Initiative and Referendum.... I
sometimes doubt whether this great western country would ever
have had the Stars and Stripes without the influence of the
American mother. Therefore my sympathies are with you in your
cause and all others supported by the mothers of our government
for the liberties of themselves and families.

Mrs. Duniway spoke on The Pioneers of the Northwest as one of them,
introduced by Miss Anthony as "the woman with whom I went gipsying
thirty-four years ago," and the audience grew enthusiastic at the
sight of these two brave veterans, the one 85 and the other 71. The
press commented: "Mrs. Duniway's talk will be remembered as one of the
best of the session. She said she had been electrified by the
Governor's speech and her own fairly scintillated with the result of
the shock. Her anecdotes were capital and her reminiscences of the
cabbage and rotten-egg days convulsed the audience." Mrs. Catt,
vice-president-at-large, responded to the greetings and expressed the
pleasure of the delegates at being in "this most beautiful city of the
United States and of the world." She spoke in highest praise of the
free, independent spirit of the West, quoting the man who said: "Out
here we don't ask who your grandfather was but everybody stands on his
own hypothenuse!"

Dr. Shaw was so impressed with the responsibility of her new office
that for the first time she wrote her president's address and it was
published in twelve columns of the _Woman's Journal_. A Portland paper
thus prepared the audience: "The event of the evening will be the
address of the president, the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw. She is easily the
best and foremost woman speaker in the world and in her