Judge — March 23, 1912 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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T H E Suffrage Snapshots. By IDA HUSTED HARPER ARY JOHNSTON, havi-g had such good luck dealing with fiction, thought she would try the Virginia Legislature. She asked for a woman- suffrage bill and said women were tired of traveling in an ox cart, while men went by airship. The legislators said she was mistaken about the airship, and they could never, never drag lovely woman down to their level. Mary con- cluded that by comparison with this level the ox cart itself was really an airship. Perhaps in the United States women should not vote because they cannot fight, but the man who said this in England would have to run to cover. The New York ‘‘antis’’ have hied them to Ohio to keep woman suffrage out of the constitution. They stirred up the Columbus ‘‘antis’’ to go before the committee, and, as a result, new as soon as they went out and shut the door, it voted, twenty to one, to put in w they are circu- lating a petition saying that ‘‘to force the franchise on an unwilling electorate would be dangerous to the State.”” If they were so unwilling they didn’t use it, there would be much less danger to the State than if they did. Their motto is: ‘The womanly woman does not wish to vote.’ No; all she wishes is to go over the country making anti-suffrage speeches, organizing clubs, addressing Legislatures and conventions, getting up petitions, and spreading the gospel that ‘‘woman’s place is at home.’’ She would not vote—oh, no!—not until she got achance; and then the suffragists would have to rise early to get to the polls first. a suffrage plank. 4 A bill providing that men in work- houses shall be allowed wages, which will be paid to their families, will be submitted to the voters in Colorado. It is not hard to guess what the women will do with that bill. The longer they can keep a husband in the workhouse, the more money it will be in their pock- ets; and if he doesn’t behave when he comes out, they can afford to send him right back, The big anti-suffrage meeting in Al- bert Hall, London, was crowded with the nobility. About the same time the delegates to the Labor Congress, repre- senting a million and a half members, voted to stand by the suffragists. As long as they can depend on the working- men, they needn’t worry over little things like lords and ladies. The Men and Religion Forward Move- ment is imploring women to persuade the men to go to church, and a Baptist minister in Philadelphia says that any WHY FEAR HIM? Bogie—* Politics is no place for women "* Enfranchued voman—° Why. gitls, it's nothing but straw! kind of sensationalism in a sermon is justifiable if it keeps the men of the congregation awake. If everything else fails, how would it do to try women in the pulpit? Repartee at a Street Corner Meeting. Scoffing man—‘' You suffragettes ought to live in those European coun- tries where women and donkeys hitched together draw heavy loads. Then you'd be of some use."" Suffragette—‘Are you married?" Scoffing man—*‘Of course."’ Suffragette—‘‘Evidently the custom you mention is not confined to foreign lands."" Winners in Judge's “Ten Reasons” Contest. FIRST PRIZE, $10.00 Mrs. OLIVE H. RABE, 6715 Southport Avenue, ‘hicago, Ill. Five Winners of a Year’s Subscrip- tion Each: CORNELIA GREENOUGH, 4810 Trinity Place, Philadelphia, Pa. JAMES LINCOLN, Box 17, Back Bay P. 0., Boston, Mass. ROBERT C, FINK, 231 Biddle Street, Kane, Pa. Mrs ANNA G. ROCKWELL, New Britain, Ct. FREDERICK G. SWANSON, Gorgona, Canal Zone. Fifteen hundred replies were received) as a result of His Honor’s invitation to his readers to submit their reasons why women should vote. Every corner of the globe was heard from. The ages of the contestants ranged from fifteen to eighty-six. Many, in their enthusiasm, failed to heed the 500-word limit; others either did not reach or overstepped the mark in the number of reasons given. The judges, chosen from among the most. able of the suffrage leaders, found theirs no light task. They sifted the immense pile of letters slowly and carefully, and their final decision may be looked upon as eminently fair and unprejudiced. His Honor thanks them for their excel- lent service. The winning ten reasons appear on page 18 of this issue. The five next best will follow in succeeding issues. A Suggestion. When schools have been provided for the children in the streets, When the little ones no more are made to toil; When sweatshops are no longer and the race has been made stronger, When the law does not defend the grafter’s spoil; When aid is freely given to the needy, worthy poor; When recompense is made for every hurt; When the time is resurrected that a woman, unprotected, May not find her path obstructed by a flirt; When the shift of fifteen hours in the factory and shop, Whereby hope and light and joy are made remote, Has been completely ended; when the helpless are befriended— Then the woman will not care about the vote. comicbooks.com