. I understand it has been planned, and the statement has gone
out, that your committee propose to cut loose from Miss Anthony.
Now if you do, you cut loose from the goose that lays the golden
egg for the South Dakota work; you cut loose from all the national
speakers and workers and all the money given.

Miss Anthony wrote Alice Stone Blackwell:

I fully agree with you and dear Mrs. Wallace about not antagonizing
the prohibition and W. C. T. U. people who made the 6,000 majority
last fall in South Dakota; but I also feel that we must not
antagonize the license people, for they are one-half of the voters,
lacking only 6,000, and fully 6,000 of the Prohibition men are
anti-suffragists and can not be converted. Hence it is also vastly
important that the license men shall not have just cause to feel
that our national suffrage lecturers are W. C. T. U. agents. That
is my one point--that we shall not at the outset repel every man
who is not a Prohibitionist.

But we shall see. I surely am as earnest a prohibitionist and total
abstainer as any woman or man in South Dakota or anywhere else. But
they have prohibition, and now are after suffrage; therefore it
should not be the old prohibition and W. C. T. U. yardstick in this
campaign, but instead it must be the woman suffrage yardstick alone
by which every man and every woman shall be measured. Best assured
I shall try not to offend a single voter, of whatever persuasion,
for it is votes we are after now. I hope to make such a good
showing of work done in this spring campaign, that our friends will
feel like giving another and larger contribution to help on the
fall canvass.

The editors of the two suffrage papers, the officers of the
National-American Association, the largest contributors to the fund and
the other members of the committee, all sustained Miss Anthony in her
position. Zerelda G. Wallace published the following notice: "Having
pledged to the committee on work in South Dakota one month's services in
the projected suffrage campaign in that State, I wish to announce
publicly that all I do there will be done under the direction of the
South Dakota committee of which Susan B. Anthony is chairman."

Finally, on April 15, the executive committee of South Dakota forwarded
their plan, which included a provision that "every dollar expended
shoul