he greatly enlarged vote of this year has been announced and the party
is looming up as a possible dispenser of the spoils of office. There is
danger, I believe, that the party may be swamped by such an exodus and
the best possible means--and, in fact, the only effectual means--of
securing the party against such a fatality is the economic power of the
industrially-organized workers.

The votes will come rapidly enough from now on without seeking them and
we should make it clear that the Socialist party wants the votes only of
those who want socialism, and that, above all, as a revolutionary party
of the working class, it discountenances vote-seeking for the sake of
votes and holds in contempt office-seeking for the sake of office. These
belong entirely to capitalist parties with their bosses and their boodle
and have no place in a party whose shibboleth is emancipation.

With the workers efficiently organized industrially, bound together by
the common tie of their enlightened self-interest, they will just as
naturally and inevitably express their economic solidarity in political
terms and cast a united vote for the party of their class as the forces
of nature express obedience to the law of gravitation.

PIONEER WOMEN IN AMERICA.

Progressive Woman, April, 1912.

In looking over some old letters a day or two ago I found a postal card
which Susan B. Anthony had written to me over thirty years ago, and,
strangely enough, it was held fast by a letter that was written to me
about the same time by Wendell Phillips, as if these two epistles had
been attracted to each other and held together in the bonds of mutualism
as were the great souls who had written them in their heroic struggle
for human enfranchisement.

The faded and time-worn old card carried me back to the day I met Miss
Anthony at the depot on her arrival at Terre Haute, where she was to
speak in public for her sex. At that time Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, who
afterward became Miss Anthony's confidential friend and authorized
biographer, and I, and two or three others, were about the only people
in Terre Haute who believed that woman was a human being and entitled to
the rights of citizenship. We had arranged these meetings for Miss
Anthony and her three active coadjutors in woman's cause at that time,
and they arrived according to the schedule.

I shall never forget how Miss Anthony impressed me. She had all the
charm of a real woman and all the streng