The three weeks following she traveled through the southern counties in New York and spoke in a number of villages.

A year before she had gone over the same ground and organized woman's temperance societies.

She found that, with the exception of one at Elmira, none of these was in existence.

The explanation in every instance was that they had no money to secure lecturers, or to do any practical work and, as all the members were wives and housekeepers, they were not in a position to earn any.

Miss Anthony makes this entry in her journal: Thus as I passed from town to town was I made to feel the great evil of woman's utter dependence on man for the necessary means to aid reform movements.