The Torch Bearer - A Look Forward and Back at the Woman's Journal, the Organ of the - Woman's Movement by Agnes E. (Agnes Edna) Ryan
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movement on a new footing!
But how is the paper to be put into the hands of all suffragists? They are many and to send them a well-edited, well-printed paper will be expensive. How are bills and loans already incurred to be met? By gifts and legacies from individuals as in the past--in the uphill, undignified way? Or by getting all readers of the Journal, all believers in it as an educator, to join themselves into a mighty army to enroll as subscribers for the Journal every possible member of a suffrage organization? Until the second way shall be in operation long enough--say, two years--to have a chance to work out successfully, there is absolutely no question but that the needs of the situation must be met in the first way. But must it be done by begging--in humiliation undeserved--or will those who are able consider it a privilege, an opportunity, to take the burden from the backs that are bent and sore from carrying it? * * * * * In the Balance If this were the crucial moment in a campaign and you saw that votes for a suffrage amendment were in the balance, you would give of the best that you have, with all the fervency of your heart. But campaigns are not won in a day. They are won only by constant and untiring advance work. The Woman's Journal does a big share of this advance work. The Journal is always in campaign. The Journal needs your help now and it |
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