Some of the more popular speakers often made four addresses in an evening.

Mrs.Raymond Robins, president of the National Women's Trade Union League, and Miss Alice Henry, secretary of the Chicago branch of the League, won many converts by their expositions of the exceedingly favorable labor laws of Australia and New Zealand, where women vote.
[Illustration: MEETING A RELEASED SUFFRAGETTE PRISONER.] Unquestionably the mighty battle which is waging in England made a deep impression on American women of all classes.

The visits made in this country by Mrs.Cobden Sanderson, Mrs.Borrman Wells, Mrs.Philip Snowden, and, most of all, Mrs.Pankhurst, leader of the militant English Suffragists, aroused tremendous enthusiasm from one end of the country to the other.

Never, until these women appeared, telling, with rare eloquence, their stories of struggle, of arrest and imprisonment, had the vote appeared such an incomparable treasure.

Never before, except among a few enthusiasts, had there existed any feeling that the suffrage was a thing to fight for, suffer for, even to die for.
Up to this time the suffrage was a theory, an academic question of right and justice.