Judge — March 16, 1912 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Watcx New Jersey wake up! The Legislature gives a hearing ona bill for woman suffrage! When, in 1897, over 75,000 men in that enlightened and progressive State voted against giving women in the villages and rural districts the privilege of voting for school trus- tees, the suffragists went away back and sat down. It never seemed worth while to get up until the movement in New York and Pennsylvania applied the galvanic battery to New Jersey. Now they are up to stay. a It’s just one—blessed—thing after an- other in the Wisconsin suffrage cam- paign. No sooner had the brewers agreed that they would not make any organized fight on the pending amend- ment than the New York Anti-Suffrage Association announced that they would send their strongest speaker up there to defeat it. But cheer up! It is to be the same woman they sent out last fall to defeat the amendment in California! a Senator Hinman ought to have known, when, as chairman, he voted against the woman-suffrage bill in the judiciary committee at Albany, that he invited disaster, Sure enough, when he stood on the platform waiting for his train, he was hit by a baggage truck. a Woman suffrage has struck Chicago’s Four Hundred. First it was a ballroom meeting at Mrs. Hobart Chatfield-Tay- lor’s, and then another at Mrs. Cyrus McCormick’s, with preliminary dinner parties and midnight suppers, just as if it were grand opera. This is a great deal better than looking upon it as opera bouffe, and this has always been the trouble with the suffrage movement— the public took it as a joke. It has been this fact, more than all others com- bined, that has kept the masses of women out of it. Here, then, is the mission of ‘‘society’’—to make it so popular the women will fall over each other to get in. Then ‘‘society’’ can turn to a new fad, and the leaders of the movement, with an army around them, will do the rest. Society men do not count at all in this phase of the J HOMO DS Suffrage By IDA HEUSTED HARPER question. When it goes to the polls for final settlement, it is the men at the other end of the line who will win the victory for women. a The six States where women will vote this year will have thirty-seven votes in the electoral college. Six Presidents, including Cleve!and, were elected by this number of votes or less, so it be- HIS MISTAKE. hooves about two Republican and four or five Democratic candidates to find out where they really do stand on the ques- tion of woman suffrage, because they'll have to stand somewhere, and that pretty soon. a There doesn’t seem to be any particu- lar reason why four or five women should have been guests of honor at the annual banquet of the Police Lieutenants’ Be- nevolent Association, but they just sat up there and sang, ‘‘We’re here because IA) OMA I Snapshots we're here.’’ And that isn’t the worst of it—they’re going to be everywhere else, and the men who don’t like it will have to go to the edge of the earth and jump off. a The actors and the commercial trav- elers are demanding that some provision be made for them to cast their votes when they have to be away from home on election day. Haven’t they read Colonel Roosevelt’s recent article in the Outlook, in which he says the suffrage isn’t anything like as important as peo- ple think it is? Of course he was talk- ing about suffrage for women; but what is sauce for the goose—only women are not such geese in this particular case as they used to be. a The wife of Congressman Taylor, of Colorado, says the women of that State have found that it does not take as long to vote as it does to match a piece of silk. It is to be hoped not, or the worst fears of the ‘‘antis”’ as to the neglect of the home and family would be more than realized. To the Anti-Suffragist. You say you do not want it forced upon you— That suffrage is a bother and’a bore; You say you have enough to worry over, Without adding extra burdens to your score. Well, it doesn’t matter much that you don’t want it; You're going to get it, just as sure as fate! So why not help to get it—get the power To vote it off again, before too late? Can’t you see the flaw in your position? Can’t you see the glaring paradox? You wouldn’t have things rudely thrust upon pon you, If only you could use the ballot box! Elizabeth Munger. THE “TEN REASONS” CONTEST His Honor’s offer of a prize of $10 for the ten best reasons, why women should vote, brought 1,500 replies. These are being judged by members of the suffrage party well qualified for the task, and the result will be announced in the next issue. comicbooks.com