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240 fill the requirements of a higher human calling, but also for the sake of our own interests. For it is determined by the law of social development that the lot of woman deteriorates on a progressive scale, as right and general enlightenment retrograde, that she, as the weaker party, must hold her claims to justice in abeyance until justice has become general in the masculine sphere, and that its true appreciation and its noblest effect can appear only after evolution has swept away every vestige of vulgarity, violence and narrowness. Therefore women comprehend their true interests only when their sympathy for right and truth is general, and when they extend their support to every radical cause. The realization of radicalism is the future, the resurrection, the "millennium of women."

This address of the president was received with general and most enthusiastic applause.

After this the organization of the meeting was completed by the election of the following officers and committees:

 Vice President — Julie Morgenroth. Secretaries — Johanna Fluegel, Caroline Poltz. Treasurer — Anna Alsen. Committee on Resolutions — Julie vom Berg, Marg. Fluegel, Marie Zehringer. Committee on Miscellaneous Business — Cath. Heisterbach, Mrs. Felsenthal, Elise Luebke.

Hereupon the motion was made to-adjourn the meeting until 3 p.m. But before the vote could be