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576 HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE rights, and we pledge our best efforts to carry out her wise and far- reaching plans for ultimate victory. The last evening of the convention was given to a second mass meeting at the Odeon Theater with Dr. Shaw presiding and a notable program. The first speaker was Miss Helen Fraser of Great Britain, who had been making a tour of the United States in the interest of the women's war hospital work of that country. She was announced on the program as "Great Britain's fore- most speaker," and she eloquently pictured Women and the Fu- ture. The Hon. Henry J. Allen, Governor of Kansas, stirred the audience to enthusiasm with an address on Woman's Place in War and Peace. Mrs. Catt's splendid closing speech on Looking Forward ended a convention whose keynote throughout had been "progress"; a farewell to the past years of toil and disappoint- ment, a preparation for the future work of women under better conditions than had ever before existed. A spirit of hope, cour- age and unlimited expectation pervaded the army of younger women, who were soon to take up the great work committed to their care. On Saturday three important meetings took place. In the morning was the formal organization of the League of Women Voters, election of officers, appointment of committees and adop- tion of a program; also the final business session of the conven- tion to harmonize the work of the National Association and that of the league. In the afternoon the two bodies met in joint ses- sion to discuss the question of how voting and non-voting women might best cooperate and the three following objects were agreed upon : ( i ) To secure the vote for all the women of the nation in the shortest possible time; (2) to obtain the vote for women in all civilized countries; (3) to carry out the legislative program of the new organization. Thus ended the perfectly managed Jubilee Convention, prob- ably the most important and far-reaching in the long history of the National Association.