itter but very sweet and I hope it
will come before my end comes."

For the second time Dr. Shaw had written her president's address but
although it was a statesmanlike document the audience missed the
spontaneity, the sparkle of wit, the flashes of eloquence that
distinguished her oratory above that of all others, and there was a
general demand that hereafter she should give them the spoken instead
of the written word. She complied and while it was a gain to the
audiences of her day and generation it was a great loss to posterity.
Even extended quotations can give little idea of this address which
filled over ten columns of the _Woman's Journal_.

For the first time in the history of our association we meet to
protest against the disenfranchisement of women in a State in
which the first public demand for a part in the conduct of our
government was made by a woman. It was in an impassioned appeal
to your Assembly, that in 1647 Mistress Margaret Brent demanded
"a part and voyce" as representative of the estate of her
kinsman, Lord Baltimore, whose name your city bears. Here Mary
Catherine Goddard published Baltimore's only newspaper through
all the severe struggle of the Revolutionary War, and it is
stated upon good authority that when Congress, then in session in
Baltimore, sent out the official Declaration of Independence,
with the names of the signers attached, it was published by
official order in Miss Goddard's paper; that her name was on the
sheet which was officially circulated throughout the country;
but, although a memorial sheet was afterwards placed in the Court
House, Miss Goddard's name was not left on it. This omission is
but one of many evidences that in the compilation of the world's
historic events it has been customary to overlook the part
performed by women.

Dr. Shaw took up the section on Labor in President Roosevelt's recent
message to Congress in which he recommended a thorough investigation
of the condition of women in industry, saying: "There is an almost
complete dearth of data on which to base any trustworthy conclusions,"
and then drawing this one: "The introduction of women into industry
is working change and disturbance in the domestic and social life of
the nation; the decrease in marriage and especially in the birth-rate
have been coincident with it." Dr. Shaw's comment was in part:

Th