The Torch Bearer eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 44 pages of information about The Torch Bearer.

The Torch Bearer eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 44 pages of information about The Torch Bearer.
If You Are A Working Man Working Men—­Help.  If You Are A Doctor.  If You Are A Farmer.  If You Are A Policeman.  If You Are An Educator.  If You Are A Postman.  If You Are A Business Man.  If You Are A Minister.  If You Are A Traveling Man.  If You Are A Fireman.  If You Are Interested In Political Questions.  A Statement By Judge Lindsey.  An Object Lesson.  Think On These Things.  The Meaning Of The Suffrage Map.  Arms Versus Armies.  Do Women Want To Vote?

Suffrage literature divides into two kinds:  that which must be inexpensive and very easily read, for the voter; and that which is designed for women who, like conservative college graduates and many other women, will be surely impressed with a more weighty, more obviously expensive-looking argument.  We find that many want good-looking, well-prepared, convincing literature to send to those whom they are trying to convert.  Practically all of the literature which the Journal has printed belongs to the second class.

=The Graveyard=

[Illustration:  Wendell Phillips A Staunch Friend]

Every live newspaper office has as part of its necessary equipment What is familiarly known as “The Graveyard.”  Ours is a combination of the Research and Information Departments.  It contains pictures of distinguished and leading suffragists in this country and abroad, biographical sketches of them, quotations from them and other suffragists, notable articles, criticisms, reviews and news of the movement which may be useful at some later date, a large amount of information and data and compilation of facts and figures, such as one needs at his fingers’ ends in an office which does the kind of work that is being done in few places if anywhere else in the country.  The files in this department include also a large amount of statistics and information regarding anti-suffrage activities, workers for the opposition, methods, amount of money spent, sources of income, and an index of the Journal from week to week.

Who was the first woman doctor, what college first opened its doors to women, what was the date of the first suffrage convention, how many times was equal suffrage submitted in Oregon before it was granted, what States in the Union have no form of suffrage for women whatever, who are the most distinguished men advocates of woman suffrage today, how many believers in equal suffrage are there in this country?  These are some examples of the myriad questions that come constantly to the Journal for answer—­usually at short notice and without a stamped envelope for reply.

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!

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