is record was
kept up to obtain favorable action by the Senate and a second and
different circular argument was sent to 2,000 papers. A carefully
selected list of several hundred southern newspapers was
furnished to Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, to which he sent
franked copies of his excellent speech on this amendment.

An open letter to Senator Baird was supplied to all the principal
papers of New Jersey; one to Senator Benet to those of South
Carolina; one to Senator Shields to Tennessee papers. A letter
showing the attitude of the National Association toward organized
labor went to a considerable number of labor papers in the
various States. During the week following the failure to vote on
the Federal Amendment in May, 250 letters and articles in regard
to it were sent out from this department. Most of them enclosed
printed or typed suffrage literature, some of Mrs. Catt's
editorials and articles, and some from other sources, including
my printed pamphlet on the Federal Amendment. Altogether nearly
8,000 letters and articles went out from this department.

Several pamphlets also were prepared and an article of about
2,000 words was furnished every month to the _International
Suffrage News_ in London, with many clippings for its files. A
number of letters and clippings also were sent to Mrs. Fawcett,
the national president of Great Britain, keeping her informed on
the progress of the movement in the United States, of which she
was very appreciative, and letters of information were written to
other countries.

By the end of 1918 from 300 to 500 editorials on woman suffrage
were received every month and it was as much a subject of comment
in the newspapers as any political issue of the day. The old-time
attacks were almost entirely absent; the editorials showed
knowledge and discrimination; fully nine-tenths of the northern
newspapers advocated not only woman suffrage but the Federal
Amendment, while in every southern State some leading papers were
in favor of enfranchising women and a few approved of its being
done through this amendment. This editorial department of the
Leslie Bureau might venture to claim some share in the evolution
of editorial opinion, to which, of course, many causes
contributed. While the need for its work w