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Memorial Services and Tributes

Suffrage law to these committees was such as to receive the unstinted praise of the Senators and Representatives who heard her strong and logical arguments irrespective of the individual views held by the Senators and Representatives. She has contributed largely to the cause of equal suffrage for woman and her work and words will be of lasting benefit to the outcome of woman's suffrage.

Her work will be a guide for those who have taken up the question where Mrs. Colby by her untimely death was compelled to leave it.

It would be hard for me to express my full consideration of the noble and splendid work done by our friend in this cause—so near and dear to her. It had become her life work and had she been spared she would have been given the privilege of seeing her desires fully realized—for it certainly will be a reality ere long.

Your life sketch of Mrs. Colby will be of a necessity a glowing tribute to a womanly woman—engaged in a most worthy and righteous cause. Her words have left their lasting mark and I am more than pleased to know that you are going to preserve them to the end that the present, as well as future generations may reap their full benefit.

Being much impressed with your work, I wish you every success. Believe me, I am,

Yours very truly, diet. JER/OPM. JOHN E. RAKER.