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NATIONAL AMERICAN CONVENTION OF IQlS-IQIQ 560, March 26 was dedicated to this purpose and to the honoring of the early leaders. Fifty Years of Ever Widening Empire was the motto at the head of the program. The tribute to the Pioneers of the National Association was paid by Mrs. Rachel Foster A very, for twenty-one years from 1881 the correspond- ing secretary of the association and closely associated with Lucretia Mott, Airs. Stanton, Miss Anthony and the other pio- neers almost from her girlhood. To Miss Anthony she was like a daughter and she gave a touching account of her personal re- lations with these noble leaders. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell drew from her stores of memory a wealth of incidents of the lives of her parents and the eminent men and -women who were nated with them in founding the American Woman Suffrage Association, also begun in 1869. A resolution offered by Mrs. Desha Breckinridge was enthusiastically adopted that "we owe an undying and inextinguishable debt to Henry B. and Lucy Stone Blackwell for their great service in behalf of suffrage for women but believe their greatest gift was their daughter, who has kept us true to the trust which they committed to the care of their followers." Mrs. Catt, who always had an eye to the practical and who on the program to urge the members of the united associa- tions to Finish the Fight, soon yielded her time to Miss Hay, the noted money-raiser, whose subject was, Make the Map White. In a very short time the delegates had shown their appreciation of the pioneers by subscribing $120,000, the whole amount of the "budget" for the work of the coming year. Dr. Shaw then closed the afternoon's services with reminiscences of her forty ' companionship with the workers in both associations. "The s M ff racist who has not been mobbed," she said, "has noth- ing really interesting to 1>fk brick upon." She spoke of the last nal convention which Miss Anthony ever attended, in 1906 iltimore, and how she had set her heart on a grand triumph that old, conservative city, describing how her in the most successful one from every point of view that ever had been held. And then she told with pathos how one month later Miss Anthony passed into eternal n-st. Little did the listeners think that the next annual VOL. V