the cause could not afford to lose Miss
Shaw's effective services and so mapped out her route, and
telegraphed and wrote asking that she be advertised.

Now, my dear friends, once for all, I want to say on behalf of our
South Dakota committee, the National-American Association, and the
friends who have placed money in our hands--that we shall no more
turn it over to you to appropriate as your executive committee
please, without our voice or vote, than you would turn over the
money entrusted to your care to our committee to spend as we
choose, without your voice or vote. But while we shall retain our
right to expend the national fund in accordance with our best
judgment, we shall in future, as I have several times written your
committee, hold ourselves ready to help defray the cost of whatever
work you present to us. I have once verbally, and twice or oftener
by letter, presented a plan of campaign asking your adoption of it,
or of one which suited you better, telling you that we would
co-operate with you in executing the plan and paying therefor; and
to all of my propositions to help, the one reply has been: "The
wheels are blocked until you turn the money over to us. You in
Washington can not run the South Dakota campaign." Now nearly five
months have elapsed, and, so far as reported, the resident
committee have adopted no plan and had no organizers at work in the
different counties.

Rev. Anna Shaw made her lecture tour throughout the State, and wrote
Miss Anthony that the people everywhere were most anxious for her to
come and there was not the slightest disaffection except on the part of
two or three persons who wished to handle the funds. To these Miss Shaw
said:

What our committee object to, and what they have no right to do by
the vote of our convention, is to put a dollar of our money into
your treasury to be spent without our consent or for any purpose of
which we do not approve. For example, not one of us, myself least
of all, will consent to take out of the contributions from friends
of suffrage one dollar to pay towards a salary of $100 a month to
any man as secretary. We do not pay our national secretary a cent,
and we have no doubt there are plenty of women in the State of
Dakota who would be glad to do the secretary's work for love of the
cause