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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page 44 of 59 (74%)
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Material for debates, speeches, articles for the press, chapters in books, copy to be read into the minutes of the Congress of the United States, refutation of anti-suffrage articles, answers to hundreds and thousands of objections to equal suffrage, questions of how it works, what women have achieved in science, art, literature,--to meet these with the least waste of time and energy is the end and aim of "The Graveyard." Practically all suffragists use it, but no one has ever contributed a penny toward its support, and no organization has ever made an appropriation to maintain it. It is simply another case of the willing mother and the thoughtless daughter! =Holding the Reins= [Illustration: Julia Ward Howe President of the Woman's Journal Corporation for Many Years] In 1910 there was one woman worker besides the editor-in-chief in the office of the Woman's Journal, and one woman who worked part time. Mr. Henry B. Blackwell, who always gave his services to the paper, had died in 1909. There were only four pages to the paper then, and the total subscription list was 3,989. Bills were sent out only twice a year, and hardly any work was being done to increase the subscription list or any department of the paper. Office administration was then a very simple matter--whereas now the Subscription Department alone requires the full time of more than ten workers. |
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