the one lesson from recent developments in Brooklyn is that none of the parties ever should take in an outside person as confidant.  If the twain can not themselves restore their oneness, none other can.  If parents and children, brothers and sisters, can not adjust their own differences among themselves, it is in vain they look to friends outside.

What lessons we are having that not only is honesty the best policy, but that there is nothing but most dreadful disaster in any policy which is not based on absolute honesty.  The fact is, nothing is worth the getting, if that has to be done by cunning, falsehood, deception.  Whether it be wealth, position, office or the society of one we love, if we have to steal it, though it may be sweet and seemingly real and lasting, the exposure of the illicit means of gaining it is sure to come, and then the thing itself turns to dross.  When will the children of men learn this fact, that nothing pays but that which is obtained fairly, openly and honestly?

This year the Michigan Legislature submitted a woman suffrage amendment to the voters, and Miss Anthony decided to canvass the State.  To do this would ruin her own lecture season for the autumn, and those in charge of the suffrage campaign could offer her no salary.  She did not hesitate, however, but without any financial guarantee, began her work there September 24.  On the eve of going she wrote to a friend:  “I leave home without having had one single week of rest this summer—­not this year, indeed, nor for twenty-five years.”  She made a forty days’ canvass, taking out three days for the Illinois convention at Chicago, and during that time spoke in thirty-five different places.  Everywhere she addressed immense and enthusiastic crowds.  She was frequently preceded by Senator Zach.  Chandler, speaking for the Republican party, and often her audiences were much larger than the senator’s.[81] Toward the close of the campaign she wrote home: 

If these meetings of mine were only by and in favor of an enfranchised class, they would carry almost the solid vote of every town for the measure advocated; but alas, they are for a class powerless to help or hinder any party for good or for evil.  It is wonderful to see how quickly the prejudices yield to a little common sense talk.  If only we had speakers and time, we could carry the vote of this State, but we have neither, and so all we can hope for is a respectable minority.  I enclose $200 left above travelling expenses, hall rent, etc., from collections and the sale of my trial pamphlets.  If I could have had even a twenty-five cents admission, I should have cleared over $1,000, but I could not have it said that I went to Michigan, at such a crisis, to make money for myself; it would have ruined the moral effect of my work.  Now they are calling on me from Washington to stay in that city all next winter to get our measure considered by Congress, but I ought to go to work to earn