ual Suffrage League gave $450.
The expenditures in round numbers were: Headquarters, including
salaries, expenses of conventions, etc., $16,531; publicity, $9,096;
National Congressional Committee, $4,676; publishing _News Letter_,
$982; contributions to campaigns, $21,131; demonstrations,
organization, etc., $20,000.
In commenting Mrs. Rogers said: "Nothing to my mind indicates so
vividly the progress of equal suffrage as the comparative ease with
which the largest budget in the history of the National Association
was pledged and most of it paid by August 25, and the fact that an
excess of that budget amounting to many thousands of dollars has been
raised three months before the usual convention date. 'Money talks'
and it is saying this year: 'No cause in which I could be used appeals
to me as does this fundamental one of enfranchising women, of opening
the door to let them enter and help to make a more Christian
civilization.' Literally we have had only to ask and it has been given
unto us. Scores and hundreds of women in sending their generous gifts
have said: 'Would that my check were ten times as large!' The
wonderful spirit of kindliness and ardent desire to cooperate have
touched the treasurer's heart deeply and made the work of the passing
year a real joy. I am confident that all necessary funds for suffrage
expenditures--national, State and local--can be raised, even to a
million dollars, if more systematic work is done on the financial side
in the States...." Mrs. Rogers outlined the business methods that
should be used and expressed her obligations to her committee of fifty
on finance for their helpful support.
Mrs. Walter McNab Miller (Mo.), first auditor, in the report of her
field work told of days, weeks and months spent in visiting cities
from New York to St. Louis, holding conferences and meetings and
writing hundreds of letters to raise money and arrange for the
demonstration to be held in St. Louis during the Democratic National
Convention--the "walkless parade," to which the Missouri Suffrage
Association contributed nearly $2,000. She attended State suffrage and
political conventions and the biennial of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs in New York. "And then came Chicago," the report said,
"with its exciting surge, its march in the rain and its near-victory
plank, followed by St. Louis with its 'golden lane' of suffragists and
a plank a little less pleasing; another trip to Indianapolis wi
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