lue now is the protection given to the wives and
daughters of the rich by men who are grinding down and taking
advantage of those of the poor. In Chicago women have no vote except
once in four years for a trustee of the State university, yet every
day if we try to take a street car we are overrun and trampled down by
men who get on the cars before they stop, and when we finally limp in
we see them comfortably seated reading the papers while we dangle from
the straps. We are crowded in stores and smoked in restaurants; in
fact the only place of late where I was not crowded was at the polls
when I went to cast my vote!"

Mrs. Mary E. Craigie (N. Y.) closed the session with a serious,
impressive address on Our Real Opposition; Ignorance and Vice, the
Silent Foe. She pointed out the "indirect alliance between the
anti-suffragists and the vicious elements, opponents of all reform,
fearful that if women vote good will prevail over evil." "The chief
foes of woman suffrage," she said, "are the saloon keepers, scum of
society, barred from fraternal organizations, social clubs and even
from some of the insurance societies."

The Biography of Miss Anthony contains this paragraph.[45]

When Miss Anthony had visited President M. Carey Thomas, of Bryn
Mawr College, and Miss Mary E. Garrett the last November she had
talked of the approaching convention, expressed some anxiety as
to its reception in so conservative a city and urged them to do
what they could to make it creditable to the National Association
and to Baltimore. They showed much interest, asked in what way
they could be of most assistance and talked over various plans.
Both belonged to old and prominent families in that city, Miss
Garrett had the prestige of great wealth also, and Dr. Thomas of
her position as president of one of the most eminent of Women's
Colleges. Miss Anthony was desirous of having the program in some
way illustrate distinctly the new type of womanhood--the College
Woman--and eventually Dr. Thomas took entire charge of one
evening devoted to this purpose, which will ever be memorable in
the history of these conventions. A day or two after Miss
Anthony's visit she received a letter from Miss Garrett saying:
"I have decided--really I did so while we were talking about the
convention at luncheon yesterday--that I must open my house in
Baltimore for that week