urdens of State." Introducing Mrs. Coggeshall of Iowa
Mrs. Catt said: "When I get discouraged I think of her and for many a
year she has been one of my strongest inspirations." A Portland paper
commented: "Her snow-white hair and demure face give no indication of
the brilliant repartee and sharp argument of which she is capable." In
her Word from the Middle West she said: "Its women are determined to
have the ballot if they have to bear and raise the sons to give it to
them. This scheme is in active operation. I myself have raised
three--eighteen feet for woman suffrage--and others have done better.
No bugle can ever sound retreat for the women of the Middle West." The
_Oregonian_ said of Miss Laughlin's address:

Her arguments are the straight, convincing kind that leave
nothing for the other fellow to say. She comes to Oregon a lawyer
of New York who is proudly boasted of, and justly, by her fellow
workers as the woman who carried off the oratorical honors of
Cornell and won for that institution the championship in
intercollegiate debating contests.... In asking for a "Square
Deal" Miss Laughlin said:

"'A square deal for every man.' These words of President
Roosevelt were more discussed during our last presidential
campaign than was any party platform plank. The growing
prominence of the doctrine of a square deal is of vital
significance to us who stand for equal suffrage, as we ask only
for this. It has been invoked chiefly against 'trusts.' We invoke
the doctrine of a square deal against the greatest 'trust' in the
world--the political trust--which is the most absolute monopoly
because entrenched in law itself and because it is a monopoly of
the greatest thing in the world, of liberty itself. The exclusion
of women from participation in governmental affairs means the
going to waste of a vast force, which, if utilized, would be a
great power in the advance of civilization.... But there depends
on the success of the equal suffrage movement something more
valuable even than national prosperity and that is the
preservation of human liberty. Now, as in 1860, 'the nation
cannot remain half slave and half free,' and either women must be
made free or men will lose the liberty which they enjoy."

Sunday services were conducted at 4:30 in the First Congregational
church by the Rev. Eleanor Gordon, p