pay the money entrusted to them only to _suffrage_
lecturers and _suffrage_ conventions. We shall not pay it to any
individual or association for any other purpose, or in any other
name, than suffrage for women, pure and simple. We talked this over
fully in your executive committee meeting at Aberdeen last fall,
and all agreed that, while the temperance societies worked for
suffrage in their way, the suffrage campaign should be carried
forward on the basis of the one principle. Our national money will
not go to aid Prohibition leagues, Grand Army encampments, Woman's
Relief Corps, W. C. T. U. societies or any others, though all, we
hope, will declare and work for the suffrage amendment. We can not
ally ourselves with the Prohibition or Anti-Prohibition party--the
Democrats or the Republicans. Each may do splendid work for
suffrage within its own organization, and we shall rejoice in all
that do so; but the South Dakota and the National-American
Associations must stand on their own ground.

Co-operation is what our committee desire, and we stand ready to
aid in holding three series of county conventions with three sets
of speakers, at least one of each set a national speaker, beginning
on May 1 and continuing until the school election, June 24. I am
feeling sadly disappointed that every voting precinct of every
county has not been visited, and will not have been by the 1st of
May, as was agreed upon at Aberdeen. Still, I want to begin now and
henceforth push the work; but the entire fund would not pay every
single man and woman in the State who helps, hence every one who
can must work without cost either to the State or national
committee.

On the 7th of April Miss Anthony wrote to the State secretary:

Yours mailed April 3 is received. The National-American committee
have only about $1,300 yet in hand, and we have arranged a trip
through your State for Rev. Anna Shaw. When your committee did not
answer my telegram, I could not wait longer for fear of losing Miss
Shaw's good work before the students of your various educational
institutions, and having had urgent importunities from Mrs. D. W.
Mayer to send some of our very best speakers to Vermillion so that
the 600 students there might be roused to thought before separating
for the summer, I felt