needs it given as freely as if a critical Election Day were
only six weeks off. The campaigns of this year and the
next few years are in the balance now. A privilege,
an opportunity for furthering a great world movement,
waits on those who are able.

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=Taken Into Our Confidence=


In the following pages our readers and the great body of suffragists
are taken quite generally into our confidence. If they see any
skeletons in the closets, we shall ask them to remember that we did
not want the skeletons there.

All persons who have ever tried to raise money for a worthy cause, all
suffragists who have given balls and bazaars, all who have labored
to make an audience pledge its last dollar for suffrage, all who have
ever tried to run an impecunious newspaper, all who have ever tried
to finance any kind of a movement for the betterment of mankind, will
know that the figures given here are written in blood and should be
read only by those of an understanding and sympathetic heart.

1908--1915

Cost Circulation