After an extended discussion the words “to secure the ballot” were stricken out, and a resolution adopted that “by accepting Miss Anthony as a delegate, the Labor Congress did not commit itself to her position on female suffrage.”  Here was this great body of men, honestly anxious to do something to ameliorate the condition of workingwomen, and yet denying to them the ballot, the strongest weapon which the workingman possessed for his own protection; unable to see that by placing it in the hands of women, they would not only give to them immense power but would double the strength of all labor organizations.

Miss Anthony gave a large amount of time to the cause of workingwomen, taught them how to organize among themselves, stirred up the newspapers to speak in their behalf, and interested in them many prominent women and also “Sorosis,” that famous club, which had just been formed.  In addressing women typesetters she said:  “The four things indispensable to a compositor are quickness of movement, good spelling, correct punctuation and brains enough to take in the idea of the article to be set up.  Therefore, let no young woman think of learning the trade unless she possesses these requisites.  Without them there will be only hard work and small pay.  Make up your minds to take the ‘lean’ with the ‘fat,’ and be early and late at the case precisely as men are.  I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value.  Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.”

The diary says in October, “Blue days these.”  Mr. Train was still in the Dublin jail.  Mr. Melliss was doing his part manfully, subscribers were constantly coming in, but no paper can be sustained by its subscription-list.  Miss Anthony wrote hundreds of letters in its interests, and walked many a weary mile and had many an unpleasant experience soliciting advertisements, but the Republicans were hostile and the Democrats had no use for The Revolution.  Invariably the more liberal-minded men would say:  “We advertise in the Tribune and Independent, and your paper will reach few homes where one or the other is not taken;” which was true.  All the business and financial management devolved upon Miss Anthony, and she was untrained in this department.  She labored all the day and late into the night over these details, longing to be in the field and pushing the cause by means of the platform, as she had been accustomed to do, and yet feeling that through the paper she could reach a larger audience.  Her diary shows that, notwithstanding past differences, she still visited at Phillips’, Garrison’s, Greeley’s and very often at Tilton’s.  In August she tells of attending the funeral of the baby in the family of the last, the departure from the usual customs, the house filled with sunshine, the mother dressed in white, and the inspired words of Mr. Beecher.

She is invited to Flushing, Oswego and various places to address teachers’ institutes and occasionally to give a lyceum lecture and, regardless of all fatigue, goes wherever a few dollars may be gathered.  Mrs. Stanton finishes her new home at Tenafly, N. J., and Miss Anthony enjoys slipping over there for a quiet Sunday.  Mrs. Stanton did most of her editorial work at home and Mr. Pillsbury stayed in the office.