for directories of associations and as fast as names
were secured copies of the circular letter of the Woman's Protest
Committee, written by Miss Blackwell, were sent out. This letter
was signed by twenty-six women, among them presidents of the
following national organizations: Council of Women, Council of
Jewish Women, Woman Suffrage Association, Teachers' Federation,
Catholic Women's League, Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, Lutheran Women's
League, Congress of Mothers, etc., and 34,000 were sent out with
28,000 leaflets, "Why Women Should Protest." Perhaps no more
spontaneous response was ever given to anything than to this
letter. All sorts of societies, not of women only but of men and
of men and women, protested. More than 400 reported their action
to headquarters. The number of individuals who reported that they
had written to Senator Albert J. Beveridge (Ind.), chairman of
the Committee on Territories, and to their own Senators was so
great that we could not keep a record. Newspapers the country
over commented on the matter, hundreds of clippings on the
subject sometimes being received in one mail.

What was the result? Under date of Dec. 16, 1904, Senator
Beveridge notified headquarters that the Senate Committee had
unanimously voted to strike out the objectionable word "in
accordance with your very reasonable request." It was a great
victory and more than paid for the labor. Mrs. McCulloch was as
good as her word and raised the money to defray all the expenses,
giving $100 herself and securing from her friend and ours, Mrs.
Elmina Springer of Chicago, $500; Mrs. Mary Wood Swift of
California, president of the National Council of Women,
contributed $50; our own president, Miss Shaw, gave $25 and there
were some small contributions. The work was most economically
done, the printing and envelopes costing $118, the postage over
$300 and a balance was left.[37]

The report of Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, national treasurer, showed
receipts for the year to be $14,662, including bequests of $4,237 from
Mrs. Henrietta L. Banker of New York and $500 from Mrs. Armilla J.
Starr of Michigan; $2,000 from Mrs. Charlotte A. Cleveland of New York
and $100 each from Mrs. Jonas Green of Virginia and Mrs. Helen J.
Underwood of Calif