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And having read it , she placed it on the glowing coals , smiling softly to herself the while . A Political Trick The campaign was a furious one after that . The women , instead of leaving the management of things to men , were stirred to wonderful activity . They worked , not only among the men of their own acquaintance , but among the working-people ; they held meetings in factories at noon , or in school-rooms or cheap halls at night in the districts where the factory-hands lived . They spoke at mass-meetings and rallies , and if they did not appear in torchlight processions , they saw that many banners were carried in them , bearing the women 's motto and legend . It was a hard fight , but a good one , and the cause of womanhood as well as of good government was advanced by it . When Sam Watts , for instance , with his pockets well-lined , went down into the district where lived the employees of the Roma Ice Company , he did not find it so easy to disburse that money as he had expected .