Mrs. Catt calls Executive Council of One Hundred to Washington--It sends letter to President Wilson offering services of National American Association--Organizes four departments of work--Mass meeting held, Secretary of War Baker speaks--President expresses approval of the association's work--Woman's Committee of Government Council of National Defense formed, Dr. Shaw appointed chairman, Mrs. Catt and other leading suffragists made members--Reports of department heads at National Suffrage convention--Report of association's Oversea Hospitals, their important work--Anti-suffrage women attack suffrage leaders--After Armistice Mrs. Catt calls meeting in New York, which requests President Wilson to appoint women delegates to Peace Conference in Paris--Woman's Committee of National Defense ends work--Secretary Baker's tribute to Dr. Shaw. APPENDIX APPENDIX 741 Moncure D. Conway's address at Mrs. Stanton's funeral--Miss Anthony's last letter to her--National American Association's Declaration of Principles--Memorial building in Rochester for Miss Anthony--Speech of Mrs. Catt at Senate hearing in 1910--Same in 1915--Review of Shafroth Federal Suffrage Amendment--Different National headquarters--Bequest of Mrs. Frank Leslie--Memorial tributes to Dr. Shaw--Present Status of National American Association. Contents of Illustrations added by Bank of Wisdom. Pioneers of Woman Suffrage 172+ Court House of Warren, Ohio & Home of Susan B. Anthony 336+ A Lecture in Banquet Hall of Suffrage Headquarters 526+ National Suffrage Headquarters in Washington 632+ INTRODUCTION A voice in the Government under which one lives is absolutely necessary to personal liberty and the right of a whole people to a voice in their Government is the first requisite for a free country. There must be government by a constitution made with the consent and help of the people which guarantees this right. It is only within the last century and a half that a constitutional form of government has been secured by any countries and in the most of those where it now exists, not excepting the United States, it was won through war and bloodshed. Largely for this reason its principal advantage was monopolized by men, who made and carried on war, and who held that such government must be maintained by physical force and only those should have a voice in it who could fight for it if necessary. There were many other reasons why those who had thus secured their right to a vote should use their new power to withhold it from women, which was done in every country. Women then had to begin their own contest for what by the law of justice was theirs as much as men's when government by constitution was established.