So great was the demand which I had only partially guessed, that within three weeks I had sold such huge editions of the little books that I had cleared over a thousand dollars.
But it seemed to me strange that it should depend on a foreign-born American to supply an eager public with what should have been supplied through the agency of the political parties or through some educational source.
I now tried to find out what a vote actually meant.

It must be recalled that I was only twenty-one years old, with scant education, and with no civic agency offering me the information I was seeking.

I went to the headquarters of each of the political parties and put my query.

I was regarded with puzzled looks.
"What does it mean to vote ?" asked one chairman.

"Why, on Election Day you go up to the ballot-box and put your ballot in, and that's all there is to it." But I knew very well that that was not all there was to it, and was determined to find out the significance of the franchise.