of-doors, even though meetings were arranged for me
in halls, courthouses and churches. I found that the small
audiences which would assemble in these places were made up of
women and men already interested and that the uninstructed voter
would only listen when you caught him on the street. I spent the
week of the State fair at Huron with Mrs. Pyle and witnessed a
wonderful demonstration of activity. As high as 50,000 people a
day were in attendance and the grounds were covered with our
yellow banners. Every prize-winning animal, every racing sulky,
automobile and motorcycle carried our pennants. Twenty thousand
yellow badges were given away in one day. The squaws from the
reservation did their native dances waving suffrage banners, and
the snake charmer on the midway carried a Votes for Women pennant
while an enormous serpent coiled around her body. I spoke during
the fair four and five times a day and held street meetings
downtown in the evening. When not thus engaged I assisted Mrs.
Pyle and her committee in distributing thousands of pieces of
literature and was amazed at the eagerness of the people to
receive them. We investigated the fair grounds to see how much
was thrown away and found almost none.

In North Dakota Mrs. Darrow had asked me to go into the untilled
suffrage field. In many places they had never heard a suffrage
address nor had a suffrage meeting ever been held. I zigzagged
across from the southeast to the northwest corners and in Minot
was arrested for making a street speech. There was no law that I
could discover against my speaking in the street and I was
convinced and am still that it was the result of the petty
tyranny of town officials unfavorable to women. A fine of $5
imposed upon me by the justice of the peace was remitted by him.
I spent twelve days in Montana, travelling about 2,000 miles, and
found more general interest than in any other State. With 118,000
voters scattered over the third largest State in the Union, with
many contending elements, with an acute labor situation, with the
political control of the State vested very largely in one great
corporation, there was plenty to occupy the attention of a
suffragist worker. Miss Rankin's organization work had been
carried to a high degree of efficiency by the m