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
page 49 of 59 (83%)
page 49 of 59 (83%)
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Suffrage News, on sale in the corridor. The paper is only five cents a
copy and you can get a full year's subscription for $1.00. Do not fail to get a copy from me before you go." The Woman's Journal has many field workers who do in connection with the regular suffrage work what Miss Foley has been doing for the Journal as an experiment. For the vitality of the movement every locality which holds suffrage meetings should have a Journal field worker for every occasion. A word in time saves an endless amount of converting. =Our Hope Chest= [Illustration: Thomas Wentworth Higginson For Many Years Contributing Editor] Other causes, other propaganda papers, have their budgets, their war chests, their exchequers, their ways and means committees, their financial backers of wealth and prestige, but the Woman's Journal has had only what we may perhaps call our "Hope Chest." It was constructed purely out of the hope that, if the paper filled a need, if it was found worthy of the movement it represents, its finances would in some way take care of themselves. And it is a wonderful tribute to the believers in the cause for equal suffrage that this plan has worked for better or worse for more than forty years. As the financial responsibilities of the paper have grown during |
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