Judge — April 13, 1912 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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T HE Suffrage Snapshots. By IDA HUSTED HARPER, Tue woman-suffrage question in this country has been settled. The Colonel did it in his whirlwind tour of New York’s East Side. ‘*How about votes for women?”’ called out the un- scareable Maud Malone. ‘‘Madam,"’ 8 Mr. Roosevelt, ‘‘I have asked that you women be allowed to vote to deter- mine whether or not you shall vote.’’ Just that; he never told whom he had asked, but the mere fact that he had asked it was enough. All the suffragists have to do now is to keep still and wait till somebody ‘‘allows’’ them to vote whether they want to vote. If one over one-half of the eighteen millions says “yes,"’ then all they have to do is to go right out and vote. But if one over one- half says ‘‘no,”’ then the 8,999,999 that want to can’t. Beautiful plan—so sim- ple, so statesmanlike! But it seems to lack a provision for a recall and anew deal. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley takes a differ- ent view. He » the ballot granted to women, because it is right."". Dr. Wiley ought to know that things are not done just because they are right. If they were, he would not have felt compelled to resign his posi- tion. Interests of precisely the same character as are fighting the pure-food laws are hindering the enfranchisement of women. ‘‘Anything to prevent pure politics!’’ is their slogan. ays, ‘‘I want to s Thanks to the Heathen Chinee for another much-needed lesson. While some of the largest ¢hurches in Chris- tendom, both in America and Europe, using their powerful influence against giving political rights to woman, the tollowers of Confucius bring her side by side with themselves into the full equality of their new republic. In California and Washington the native- born Chinese women have the suffrage, which is denied to the American-born women in forty-two other States. This does not necessarily make the latter wish that they were heathens, but only that American men were a little less so. are During the recent registration in San Francisco, automobiles were provided for the women, while the men were left M O D E RN to walk, and they rent the air with their protests. In Washington a jury com- posed of men and women had to go to the country to inspect some property. The women were sent in automobiles and the men in wagons, and their anger could be heard for miles. As the young woman wrote to her sweetheart, ‘‘The trubble with you is you are jellus.’’ Is that the reason it is proposed to close the Columbia School of Journalism to women? First fruits of woman suffrage! A San Francisco wife has just been granted a divorce because her husband talked too much! ) BLIND AS THOSE WHO WON'T SEE. (Dedicated to editars of “Women's Pager) The Anti’s Daughter. Mother, may I go out to vote “Shame, ob, shame, my darling daugh- ter! Voting’s bad for the complexion, Ruinous to female wits; And excitement pre-election Doubtless, dear, would give you fits! Vote, you say, my darling daughter? Shame, oh, shame! You hadn’t orter!’’ ‘*Mother, may I go out to work?"” “Yes, oh, yes, my darling daughter! Work with book and work with needle, Work at loom and work with pen. Hours? Wages? We will wheedle Justice for you from the men! Work, you say, my darling daughter? Labor’s holy! Sure you'd orter!’’ A. On, 5. Wom AN When Lovely Woman Stoops to Conquer. By NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH A contemporary submitted an anti- suffrage cartoon to its readers recently, showing two women, of cast-iron coun- tenance, carrying suffrage banners and stooping over to gather cobblestones with which to engage in window smash- ing. The caption ander this offering w: When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly."" It should be pointed out to the virulent anti-suffrage editor that the special form of feminine ‘‘folly’’ for which the senti- mental Mr. Goldsmith prescribed death as the only remedy is precisely that which qualifies a woman to-day to have her portrait printed in such an anti- suffrage argument as was offered re- cently by a Sunday newspaper to its supposedly respectable readers, i.e., the pictures of Madam Du Barry, Madam de Pompadour, Lady Hamilton and other historical beauties of more than brittle reputation, under the admiring headline, “*Women Who Have Influenced Mankind Without the Ballot.’’ “‘When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly,’’ in the Goldsmithian sense, she is merely qualifying as an exerter of the so-called ‘‘indirect feminine influence’” so lauded by anti-suffrage orators, and which is really as direct and primitive as any belonging to the good old time when we were all tadpoles and fishes and anti-suffragists. Cobblestones as a form of direct in- fluence may be a tactical error, but as a reaction against so-called indirect in- fluence they are an encouraging sign of woman's moral emancipation. To Make Anti-Suffrage Wit Stock. Sift several eons of masculine preju- dice into a masculine brain pan. Chop up bunches of masculine conceit with a string of frazzled traditions. Add a handful of mummied caricatures. Flavor with abuse to taste. Cook rapidly with plenty of hot air. Thin out with super- ficial reasoning. This makes a decidedly sour prepara- tion keenly relished by a diminishing majority. Even men who are not fastidious are apt to observe correct forms. comicbooks.com