OFFICIAL ORGAN Natlonal Amerlcan Woman Suffrage Assoclatlon. i I SUBSCRIPTION PRICE 25 Cents Per Year. Volume VII. FAIL U RE DECEMBER, I908 1E5 IMPOSSIBLE —- Susan; Number I 2 B. Anthony‘ PROGRESS PUBLISHED MONTLHY AT WAR- REN, OHIO, BY THE ATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION President, Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, Moylan, Pa. 1st Vice President, Rachel Foster Avery, Swarthmore, Pa. 2nd Vice Pres, Mrs. Florence Kelley, 105 E. 22nd St., New York City. Cor. Sec’y, Miss Kate M. Gordon, 1800 Prytania St., New Orleans, La. Recording Sec'y, Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Park St., Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren, Ohio. lst Auditor, Miss Laura Clay, Lexington, Ky. 2nd Auditor, Mrs. Ella S. Stewart, Chicago, 111 Legal Advisor, Catharine Waugh McCulloch, Evanston, Ill. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, WARREN, OHIO. PRICE 25 CENTS PER YEAR “13‘... OFFICERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE. President, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, N0. 2 W. 86th St., New York City. First Vice President, Dr. Anita Augsburg, Hamburg, Germany. Second Vice President, Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, London, England. Secretary, Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, Swarthmore, Pa. First Ass’t Secretary, Dr. Kathe Schirmacher, Paris, France. Second Ass't Secretary, Martina Kramers, Rotterdam, Holland. Treasurer, Mrs. Stanton Coit, London, England. Entered as second class matter Nov. lst mac 1': f'hn pm: 01 np_ day. The Spirit was enthusiastic and determined. A street parade had been arranged and at twelve o'clock, with band and banners, we started. Mrs. Coggeshall, Rev. Eleanor Gordon and Mrs. Hallam led the procession. Next to them came the two English girls hold- ing over my head a large banner “Tax- ation without Representation is Tyran— ny.” The delegates and friends followed and it was a fine procession. At Main istreet we halted and from an automo- “bile Miss Costelloe, Miss Rendcll and I men, the highest number of women be- ing 55 per cent in one precinct, the proportion of women to men decreasing toward the slum or tenderloin wards. In the working centers where a larger number of men than women live. 37 per cent of the votes were cast by women. In the tenderloin district, where we have been told evil women would cut: vote the good, in one precinct where there were 700 registered vote"". 100 were j qrhen and out of that number but 20 vei hbor'na ‘2 -.