Note 72 — Chapter XII

Part of Call: This convention has big problems confronting it, interesting, stimulating problems coincident with the tremendous expansion of our government, problems worthy the indomitable mettle of suffrage workers; but in spite of hard work, this week will be a gala week, a compensation for all the hard, dull, gray work during the past year and a stimulus for still harder work during the year to come....

Let us listen to our fellow workers, and, listening and sympathizing with the unselfish labor being carried on everywhere, pledge ourselves to a flaming loyalty to suffrage and suffragists that will burn away all dross of dissension, all barriers to united effort. Let us come with high resolve that we will never waver in our effort to obtain the right to stand side by side with the men of this country in the mortal struggle that shall bid perish from this land political corruption, privilege, prostitution, the industrial slavery of men, women and children and all exploitation of humanity.

Let us come together, in this autumn of 1912, this unprecedented year of suffrage, consecrating ourselves anew on this, the greatest of all battlegrounds for democracy, the United States of America.

Anna Howard Shaw, President.

Jane Addams, First Vice-President.

Sophonisba Breckinridge, Second Vice-President.

Mary Ware Dennett, Corresponding Secretary.

Susan W. Fitzgerald, Recording Secretary.

Jessie Ashley, Treasurer.

Katharine Dexter McCormick, } Auditors.

Harriet Burton Laidlaw,

Alice Stone Blackwell, Editor of the Woman's Journal.