ary.
HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Treasurer.
LAURA CLAY, } Auditors.
ELLA S. STEWART, }

The Call ended with the touching poem of the young Southern poet, Mrs.
Olive Tilford Dargan, "The Lord of little children to the sleeping
mothers spoke."

[61] The resolutions declared the movement for woman suffrage to be
but a part of the great struggle for human liberty; called for the
enactment of initiative and referendum laws; equal pay for women and
men in public and private employment; uniform State laws against child
labor and for compulsory education; more industrial training for boys
and girls in the public schools; more strenuous effort against the
white slave traffic. They demanded that the United States should take
the lead in an international movement for the limitation of armaments.
A cordial vote of thanks was given for the hospitality and courtesies
of the city and the people of Seattle.

[62] See History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV, page 1096.

[63] The ministers of Seattle who opened the various sessions with
prayer were: Doctors A. Norman Ward, Protestant Methodist; Thomas E.
Elliott, Queen Anne Methodist; George Robert Cairns, Temple Baptist;
Edward Lincoln Smith, Pilgrim Congregational; Sydney Strong, Queen
Anne Congregational; the Reverends J. D. O. Powers, Unitarian; W. H.
W. Rees, First Methodist Episcopal; W. A. Major, Bethany Presbyterian;
Joseph L. Garvin, First Christian; C. Lyng Hanson, Scandinavian
Methodist; F. O. Iverson, Norwegian Lutheran; P. Nelson, Norwegian
Congregational Missionary.

[64] Committee: Mrs. DeVoe, Dr. Cora Smith Eaton, Mrs. Bessie J.
Savage, Miss Adella M. Parker, Dr. Sarah A. Kendall, Mrs. Ellen S.
Lockenby and a small army of assistants.

CHAPTER X.

NATIONAL AMERICAN CONVENTION OF 1910.

As a national convention had not been held in Washington since 1904
the suffragists were pleased to return to that city with the
Forty-second in the long list, which was held April 14-19, 1910.[65]
Three special cars were filled by delegates from New York City alone.
It had become very difficult to get a suitable place for conventions
in the national capital and the experiment was made of holding this
one in the large ball room of the Arlington Hotel, which proved
entirely inadequate for the audiences. The convention was called to
order on the first afternoon by the national president, Dr. Anna
Howard