Miss Foley usually speaks toward the close of a meeting.  The gist of her remarks is something like this: 

“You have just heard about our cause and how wonderful it is to be connected with it.  I am sure you will want to know more about it.  The best way to get authentic information and news about Votes for Women is to read the organ of the suffrage movement, The Woman’s Journal and 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 the past six years, however, it has become apparent that we must not merely publish the paper each year and hope to pay our bills but that we must study the question of financing a growing paper with ever growing needs of expansion and consequent growing financial risks.

Accordingly, we decided that if we must “raise money” each year in some way or other, we must go about it in a well thought out way and not leave such an important matter to haphazard uncertainties.  We have, therefore, formed a small Finance Department and have studied all of the ways of raising money that are known to us, trying of course to make out which ones are particularly adapted to our needs.

The result is that we have decided on the following course: 

(1) To issue this survey of the Journal’s work, and ask suffragists to consider the value of the paper purely on its merits and contribute to it and support it if they believe in what it is doing.

(2) To form a Central Finance Committee with a branch in each state in the Union.

(3) To ask able women and friendly organizations in various towns and cities throughout the country to give a ball, banquet, bazaar, festival or other benefit or entertainment with the express purpose of sharing the proceeds with the Woman’s Journal.