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its place as the leading exponent of democracy. Australia and New
Zealand have out-Americanized America. Let us not forget that
progress does not cease with the 20th century. We say our
institutions are liberal and just. They may be liberal but they
are not just for they are not derived from the consent of the
governed. What is your own mental attitude toward progress? If
you should meet a new idea in the dark, would you shy?
Robespierre said that the only way to regenerate a nation was
over a heap of dead bodies but in a republic the way to do it is
over a heap of pure, white ballots.

"Mrs. Catt was awarded the Chautauqua salute when she appeared on the
platform," said the _Oregonian_, "and it was some minutes before the
former president of the association could proceed. She spoke
eloquently and at considerable length and in this assemblage of
remarkably bright women it was plain to be seen that she was a star of
the first magnitude." It was hard for the convention to accede to Mrs.
Catt's determination to retire from even the vice-presidency of the
association because of her continued ill health but they yielded
because this was so evident. Mrs. Florence Kelley was the choice for
this office and in accepting she said: "I was born into this cause. My
great-aunt, Sarah Pugh of Philadelphia, attended the meeting in London
which led to the first suffrage convention in 1848. My father, William
D. Kelley, spoke at the early Washington conventions for years." Dr.
Eaton was again obliged to give up the office of second auditor on
account of her professional duties and Dr. Annice Jeffreys Myers, who
had so successfully planned and managed the convention, was almost
unanimously elected. No other change was made in the board.

Among the excellent resolutions presented by the chairman of the
committee, Mr. Blackwell, were the following:

Whereas, the children of today are the republic of the future;
and whereas two million children today are bread-winners; and
whereas the suffrage movement is deeply interested in the welfare
of these children and suffragists are actively engaged in
securing protection for them; and whereas working-men voters are
also vitally interested in protection for the young
bread-winners; therefore,

Resolved, That it is desirable that our bills for civil rights
and political rights, together with the bil