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The Woman's Tribune

Tribune became recognized throughout the West as the organ of the National Woman's Suffrage Association, and to many women the only source of information and sole authority on the subject of Woman's Suffrage. Naturally it was a terrible blow to the paper, and an inexpressible disappointment to Mrs. Colby and many others, when, on the occasion of the union of the National Association with the American in 1889 the Woman's Journal was adopted as the suffrage organ to the .exclusion of the Tribune.

Thus deprived of the backing of a great national society, and of Miss Anthony's personal aid, the work of maintaining the paper was greatly increased. Although it continued to be published some twenty years more, yet it was done by the most strenuous exertion and immense personal sacrifice.

Those who have never had a part in publishing a reform paper cannot understand the difficulties of the situation. First, the circulation of the best reform papers will necessarily be small as compared with that of the popular newspapers; next, the advertising, which is almost entirely dependent on the circulation, must be small or wholly wanting.

For a time Mrs. Colby was able to retain her old subscribers, but without the opportunity to present the paper at the great national meetings her means of increasing the