The failure to recognize this is due either to ignorance of facts or to a willful disregard of them; usually it is the former.

For instance, one constantly hears to-day the exultant cry that women finally are beginning to take an interest and a part in political and radical discussions.

But there has never been a time in this country's history when they were not active factors in such discussion.

The women of the American Revolutionary Period certainly challenge sharply the women of to-day, both by their intelligent understanding of political issues and by their sympathetic cooeperation in the struggle.

It was the letters of women which led to that most important factor in centralizing and instructing pre-revolutionary opinion in New England, the Committee of Correspondence.