Founded in 1870 by Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell

  Editor-in-Chief
  Alice Stone Blackwell

  Contributing Editors

Mary Johnston            Stephen S. Wise
Josephine P. Peabody     Zona Gale
Florence Kelley          Witter Bynner
Ben B. Lindsey           Caroline Bartlett Crane
Ellis Meredith           Mabel Craft Deering
Eliza Calvert Hall       Reginald Wright Kauffman

  Artists

  Mayme B. Harwood Fredrikke Palmer
  Mrs. Oakes Ames

  Deputy Treasurer Assistant Editor_

   Howard L. Blackwell Henry Bailey Stevens

  Circulation Manager Advertising Manager

   Marie Spink Joe B. Hosmer

  Finance Managing Editor

   Mildred Hadden Agnes E. Ryan

=The torch bearer=

  A Look Forward and Back at the
  Woman’s Journal, the Organ of
  the Woman’s Movement

By Agnes E. Ryan

=Contents=

The Torch Bearer

In the Balance

Taken Into Our Confidence

Some Changes

It Speaks for Itself (Editorial Department)

Suffrage Volunteer News Service

The Connecting Link (Circulation Department)

What Papers Live By (Advertising Department)

Prints and Reprints (Literature Department)

The Graveyard (Research and Information Departments)

Holding the Reins (Administration Department)

Capturing the Imagination (Press and Publicity Dept.)

A Word in Time (Field Workers’ Department)

The Hope Chest (Finance Department)

Early Stockholders

Present Stockholders

The Journal Goes to 39 Foreign Countries

The Corporation

=List of Illustrations=

  Lucy Stone, Henry B. Blackwell
  Alice Stone Blackwell
  Charts: 
  Increase in Cost of Publishing
  Increase in Circulation
  Propaganda Work
  The Woman’s Journal Staff: 
  Circulation Department
  The General Staff
  The Directors: 
  Alice Stone Blackwell, Emma L. Blackwell, Maud
  Wood Park, Grace A. Johnson, Agnes E. Ryan
  The Woman’s Journal artists: 
  Fredrikke S. Palmer
  Mrs. Oakes Ames
  The Woman’s Journal Printers: 
  E.L.  Grimes, M.J.  Grimes, William Grimes
  Mary A. Livermore
  William Lloyd Garrison
  Wendell Phillips
  Julia Ward Howe
  Armenia White
  Margaret Foley
  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  Mrs. David Hunt
  The Anti and the Snowball

  Justice, simple justice is
  what the world needs. 
  —­Lucy Stone

[Illustration:  Lucy Stone.]

[Illustration:  Henry B Blackwell.]