little too far. I was in the Senate gallery to-day when two
suffrage. senators in speeches denounced the pickets and their
suffrage banners. They said that we were setting suffrage back
and that something ought to be done about it."

"Exactly so," would come the ready answer from Miss
Paul. "And they will do something about it only if we continue

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to make them uncomfortable enough. Of course even suffrage
senators will object to our pickets and our banners because they
do not want attention called to their failure to compel the
Administration to act. They know that as friends of the measure
their responsibility is greater." And the "fearful" one was
usually convinced and made stronger.

I remember so well when the situation was approaching its final
climax in Washington. Men and women, both, came to Miss Paul
with, "This is terrible! Seven months' sentence is impossible.
You must stop! You cannot keep this up!"

With an unmistakable note of triumph in her voice Miss Paul would
answer, "Yes, it is terrible for us, but not nearly so terrible
as for the government. The Administration has fired its heaviest
gun. From now on we shall win and they will lose."

Most of the doubters had by this time banished their fears
and had come to believe with something akin to superstition that
she could never be wrong, so swiftly and surely, did they see her