Annual meeting in Des Moines welcomed by the Governor, the Mayor, the Rev. H. O. Breeden and others -- Miss Anthony in her president's address describes campaigns the previous year in Idaho, where Woman Suffrage was carried, and in California where it was defeated -- Eulogized by the _Leader_ -- Mrs. Chapman Catt receives an ovation -- Mrs. Colby presents memorial resolutions for nearly forty faithful friends -- President George A. Gates of Iowa College advocates woman suffrage -- Maternal Love High but Narrow -- Domestic Life of Suffragists -- Should the Advocates of Woman Suffrage Be Strictly Non-Partisan? -- Celebration in honor of the Free States, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho -- All God's Works Recognize Co-equality of Male and Female -- Letter from daughter of Speaker Reed -- Press Work -- Presidential Suffrage. CHAPTER XVIII. NATIONAL-AMERICAN CONVENTION OF 1898 288-321 Fiftieth Anniversary of First Woman's Rights Convention -- Chief obstacle to organization is women themselves -- Gains of half-a-century -- Miss Anthony's birthday luncheon -- Mrs. Stanton's paper on Our Defeats and Our Triumphs -- The Distinguished Dead -- Mrs. Hooker and Miss Anthony in pretty scene -- Roll-call of Pioneers -- Letter from Abigail Bush, president of first convention -- Greetings from Lucinda H. Stone, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell and many individuals and associations -- Addresses by Mrs. Cannon, a woman State Senator from Utah, Mrs. Conine, a woman State Representative from Colorado, Miss Reel, State Superintendent of Instruction from Wyoming, U. S. Senators Teller and Cannon, and others -- Senate Hearing -- Wm. Lloyd Garrison on The Nature of a Republican Form of Government -- May Wright Sewall on Fitness of Women to Become Citizens from the Standpoint of Education and Mental Development -- The Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer on Moral Development -- Laura Clay on Physical Development -- Harriot Stanton Blatch on Woman as an Economic Factor -- Florence Kelley, State Factory Inspector of Illinois, on the Workingwoman's Need of the Ballot -- Mariana W. Chapman on Women as Capitalists and Taxpayers -- Elizabeth Burrill Curtis, Are Women Represented in Our Government? -- Henry B. Blackwell, Woman Suffrage and the Home -- Mrs. Stanton, The Significance and History of the Ballot -- House Hearing -- Practical Working of Woman Suffrage -- Alice Stone Blackwell on The Indifference of Women -- Miss Anthony Closes Hearing. CHAPTER XIX. NATIONAL-AMERICAN CONVENTION OF 1899 322-348