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The Revolution,
Devoted to the discussion of
SUFFRAGE,
The only means by which
EQUAL RIGHTS
can be secured to
WOMAN
is the STATE, the CHURCH, the HOME and the World of WORK.
AN AMERICAN MONETARY SYSTEM— Greenbacks for money, as well for Bondholders and Capitalists, as for the Working Classes.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON,
PARKER PILLSBURY,
Editors.
Terms— Dollars a year in advance. Five names ($10) entitle the sender to one copy free, New York City subscribers, $2.50.
All Communications should be addressed to the Proprietor, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Revolution Office,
No. 49 East 23d St., (Woman's Bureau,)
New York.
To be had of the American News Co. and the New York News Co.,New York ; the Western News Co., Chicago, and the St. Louis Book and News Co., St. Louis.
The Revolution
New York, Aug. 20th 1869
My Dear Friends
I surely am not able to tell you the things you wish to know - To reform is a needful & good work - but to form rightly is the only lasting good - you see the one point you state - that if they can get good wages - work they stay reformed - tells the exact thing to do - that is to
Devoted to the discussion of
SUFFRAGE,
The only means by which
EQUAL RIGHTS
can be secured to
WOMAN
is the STATE, the CHURCH, the HOME and the World of WORK.
AN AMERICAN MONETARY SYSTEM— Greenbacks for money, as well for Bondholders and Capitalists, as for the Working Classes.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON,
PARKER PILLSBURY,
Editors.
Terms— Dollars a year in advance. Five names ($10) entitle the sender to one copy free, New York City subscribers, $2.50.
All Communications should be addressed to the Proprietor, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Revolution Office,
No. 49 East 23d St., (Woman's Bureau,)
New York.
To be had of the American News Co. and the New York News Co.,New York ; the Western News Co., Chicago, and the St. Louis Book and News Co., St. Louis.
The Revolution
New York, Aug. 20th 1869
My Dear Friends
I surely am not able to tell you the things you wish to know - To reform is a needful & good work - but to form rightly is the only lasting good - you see the one point you state - that if they can get good wages - work they stay reformed - tells the exact thing to do - that is to
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to open the doors to all profitable & honorable work to woman - I will put your letter into the hands of a friend of mine whose whole life has been devoted to fallen women - & ask her to give you counsel.
But alas - alas - the first thing needful is to reform the fallen men - & their name is legion - while even the very, elect of men feel it no crime to despoil any woman's virtue
But alas - alas - the first thing needful is to reform the fallen men - & their name is legion - while even the very, elect of men feel it no crime to despoil any woman's virtue
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they meet - it will be very, very hard work to lift poverty stricken homeless girls above their seductive reach - nothing, but to make woman's work easy, profitable, honorable - can, do it - and that can't be done while no woman ever washes her own dishes who can find a man either in or out of marriage to pay for the doing it for them -
If the ballot in the hands of women shall fail to do the desired work of elevating women - then I shall
If the ballot in the hands of women shall fail to do the desired work of elevating women - then I shall
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not despair - but look in some other direction for help -
I am glad you wrote me - & do try & get as many of John Stuart Hill's "Subjection of Women read in Leavenworth as possible - Women must not eat the bread of man's earning if they would not be subject unto his lusts & passions - Cordially yours
Susan B. Anthony
P.S. Can you not get some one to act as agent for The Revolution in Leavenworth ?
I am glad you wrote me - & do try & get as many of John Stuart Hill's "Subjection of Women read in Leavenworth as possible - Women must not eat the bread of man's earning if they would not be subject unto his lusts & passions - Cordially yours
Susan B. Anthony
P.S. Can you not get some one to act as agent for The Revolution in Leavenworth ?
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Alma Lutz Collection
(COPY)
The Revolution
New York, Aug. 20th 1869
My Dear Friends
I surely am not able to tell you the things you wish to know - To reform is a needful & good work - but to form rightly is the only lasting good - you see the one point you state - that if they can get good wages - work they stay reformed - tells the exact thing to do - that is to open the doors to all profitable & honorable work to woman - I will put your letter into the hands of a friend of mine whose whole life has been devoted to fallen women - & ask her to give you counsel. But alas - alas - the first thing needful is to reform the fallen men - & their name is legion - while even the very, elect of men feel it no crime to despoil any woman's virtue they meet - it will be very, very hard work to lift poverty stricken homeless girls above their seductive reach - nothing, but to make woman's work easy, profitable, honorable - can, do it - and that can't be done while no woman ever washes her own dishes who can find a man either in or out of marriage to pay for the doing it for them -
If the ballot in the hands of women shall fail to do the desired work of elevating women - then I shall not dispair - but look in some other direction for help -
I am glad you wrote me - & do try & get as many of John Stuart Hill's "Subjection of Women read in Leavenworth as possible - Women must not eat the bread of man's earning if they would not be subject unto his lusts & passions -
(COPY)
The Revolution
New York, Aug. 20th 1869
My Dear Friends
I surely am not able to tell you the things you wish to know - To reform is a needful & good work - but to form rightly is the only lasting good - you see the one point you state - that if they can get good wages - work they stay reformed - tells the exact thing to do - that is to open the doors to all profitable & honorable work to woman - I will put your letter into the hands of a friend of mine whose whole life has been devoted to fallen women - & ask her to give you counsel. But alas - alas - the first thing needful is to reform the fallen men - & their name is legion - while even the very, elect of men feel it no crime to despoil any woman's virtue they meet - it will be very, very hard work to lift poverty stricken homeless girls above their seductive reach - nothing, but to make woman's work easy, profitable, honorable - can, do it - and that can't be done while no woman ever washes her own dishes who can find a man either in or out of marriage to pay for the doing it for them -
If the ballot in the hands of women shall fail to do the desired work of elevating women - then I shall not dispair - but look in some other direction for help -
I am glad you wrote me - & do try & get as many of John Stuart Hill's "Subjection of Women read in Leavenworth as possible - Women must not eat the bread of man's earning if they would not be subject unto his lusts & passions -
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Cordially yours
Susan B. Anthony
P.S. Can you not get some one to act as agent for The Revolution in Leavenworth ?
Susan B. Anthony
P.S. Can you not get some one to act as agent for The Revolution in Leavenworth ?
