The International Council was the first attempt to convene an international body of women, and opened the way to a much larger conception of the whole suffrage movement. The effect was, that from being the effort of the women of the United States to secure the ballot for themselves, it became a great body of women working for the complete emancipation of their sex everywhere. From being merely national in scope the cause became world-wide.
After her notable success in publishing the daily Tribune in Washington during the council in 1888, Mrs. Colby removed her office to that city and making her headquarters there published the paper with growing interest until 1904 when she removed it to Portland, Oregon, in order to aid more effectually the woman's suffrage campaign which was being carried on in that state.
The writer recalls a campaign in Wisconsin in 1886 in which Miss Anthony, accompanied by Mrs. Colby, with the help of Rev. Olympia Brown, president of the Wisconsin State Suffrage Association, held a three days' convention in each of the congressional districts of the state. Mrs. Colby was a prominent speaker in all the meetings. The immediate purpose was the extension of the circulation of the Woman's Tribune.
Among the many meetings held in Wisconsin was a very successful one at Eau
