Miss Mitchell took no prominent part in the woman suffrage movement, but she believed in it firmly, and its leaders were some of her most highly valued friends.

I remember that at one of the first woman-suffrage meetings I ever attended one of the first speakers was an odd fellow from the neighboring town, considered half a lunatic.

All suffrage work has stopped and all the hundred-and-one interests in societies of every kind are in abeyance as well.

In the latter year she organized a woman's suffrage association, delivered a series of lectures on the subject, and established a newspaper called the Nyloendemeaning "the new ground."

The suffrage organizations, whenever a new line of skilled work was opened to women, established well-equipped centers to give the necessary teaching.

Many of the wisest men in Norway consider the universal suffrage amendment to the constitution, which was passed in 1898, a mistake for this reasonbecause it removes a powerful incentive for men to accumulate money.

As many women are already fully enfranchised in this country as would be made voters by the suffrage bill now under consideration in Great Britain, so that American women taken as a whole can not be put into a secondary position as regards political rights.

Two remarkable women, Minna Cauer and Anita Augsberg, the latter unmarried and a doctor of laws, were the moving spirits in the first woman suffrage agitation, which has since extended throughout the empire until there is hardly a small town without its suffrage club.

They had the machinery to accomplish their object, the Council being an old established society organized throughout the country, and the Association to Aid the Refugees from Alsace-Lorraine (a nonpartisan name adopted, by the way, at the request of the Minister of the Interior to cover for the moment the patriotic work of the leading suffrage society) had active units in every prefecture.

As we were holding a woman suffrage convention in Albany, at the time appointed for the hearing, Ernestine L. Rose and Lucretia Mott briefly added their views on the question.

I think this suffrage question must settle itself precisely upon this ground-principle, and that all argument should range conclusively around it.

Even more close to lasting work for all the issues that affect the community through placing upon women an ordered civic responsibility are the plans for the organizing under different names of woman suffrage parties and civic leagues which blend the handling of local activities everywhere with a demand for the ballot in keeping with the needs of the modern community.

In none of the four suffrage states first enfranchised in this country, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and Colorado, in Australia or in New Zealand, did any large proportion of women ask for or desire their political freedom.

Then again the tremendous strikes in which such large numbers of women and girls have been involved were an education to others than the strikersto none more than to the suffrage workers who coöperated with the ill-used girl strikers in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago.

We have on cards the names of nearly 35,000 members of suffrage leagues who are not subscribers for the Woman's Journal.

Hence we give here an account of the progress of the woman-suffrage cause up to the California election as it appeared to the prominent suffragist writer, Ida Husted Harper, and to the honored suffragist leader, Jane Addams.

And yet I believe I am right in saying that all these four women writers have jostled one another upon suffrage platforms, and that they all suffered blows and injuries in the same cause, during the various riots and conflicts that occurred in London in the course of the great agitation.

It is a little detail, but a very significant one in this connection, that the committee that organised the various great suffrage processions in London were torn by dispute about the dresses of the processionists.

The shirt-waist strike and the garment workers' strike in New York and Philadelphia, waged so bitterly in 1910, brought great numbers of women into the suffrage ranks.

As I had some woman-suffrage literature in my valise, I distributed leaflets to all earnest souls who plied me with questions.

Even Thiers, the leading statesman of the Moderate party, asked for suffrage reform.

Owing to the temperance agitation in the last six years the growth of the suffrage sentiment among the wives and mothers of this nation has largely increased.

I thought it was the best condensed woman-suffrage argument I ever heard in my life.

I write suffrage articles continuallyI sign petitions.'

She had known Portia's mother rather well,Naomi Rutledge Stanton, the suffrage leader, she wasand she had always liked and admired Portia; liked her better than the younger and more sensational daughter, Rose.