Judge — May 24, 1913 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Suffragette “ce AINE leads !''—the old State takes a good deal of pride in that motto on its coat of arms—but it seems to be leading backward when every Legislature refuses to submit a woman-suffrage amendment and give the voters a chance to pass upon it. a “Yes, I am a suffragist,"’ said Mrs. Burleson, wife of the Postmaster- General, ‘‘not be- cause I myself am particuarly anxious to vote, but because I believe the grant- ing of woman suf- frage will make the world a fairer, squarer place for self-supporting women."’ If there were no other rea- son for it, that is quite sufficient. A wage-earning wom- an without a vote is in exactly the same helpless position as awage-earningman would be without one—a Chinaman, for a good example. oO The Anti-Suffrage Association is to be congratulated on the latest contribution to its literature by Abdul Hamid, the de- posed Sultan of Turkey. There is such a similarity between his opinions on woman suffrage and Mrs. Humphry Ward’s that it certainly is either a case of plagiarism or two souls with but a single thought. Why not bring Abdul over to the United States for a lecture tour? The ‘‘antis’” are short of speakers, and he could be depended on to draw a crowd. Oo The House of Commons has just given another object lesson in dignity and self- control to the misbehaving suffragettes. “You cad!"* ‘You dirty snob!"? were the epithets hurled at a member who attacked Lloyd George, while the friends of the chancellor of the exchequer, ac- cording to the dispatches, ‘‘cheered like Sna By IDA HUSTED HARPER a crowd at a boxing match.’’ Strange that Englishwomen should show such fighting proclivities! a Certain members of the British cabinet having called for suggestions as to the best method of dealing with the present formidable suffrage movement, Mrs. Fawcett, president of the constitutional Toman THE PROOF Suffragette—There! you see I can run the machine as well as you, and I don’t get half as much mud on it. society, answers that, the government having gotten itself into its present hopeless muddle, she sees no reason why the suffragists should help it out. An- other prominent officer answers, ‘‘There are just two ways to put a stop to pres- ent conditions—kill all the women or give them the vote!’’ In their hour of dis- tress, those cabinet ministers must feel as if Englishwomen had gone entirely out of the ministering-angel business. a A professor of Pennsylvania University has recently contributed this item to the fashion department: ‘‘A costly hat is not a sign of extravagance, but a mark of the standardization through which greater economies are attained.’’ Of course; as hats grow more costly, women put less and less material in their dresses, and if the price of hats gets another boost, one really trembles to think of the result to the dresses. pshots An anti-suffrage member of the New York Legislature has introduced a bill providing that hereafter no law shall be passed making any discrimination be- tween the sexes in regard to personal, civil or property rights, and all such existing laws shall be repealed. Good! And the very first law the women would like to have repealed is that which makes all the joint earnings during marriage the sole property of the husband, to be disposed of by him at his death; and the second, that one which gives the widow only a life interest in one-third of their jointly earned real estate and any the husband may have besides, and one- half the personal property absolute- ly, but allows the widower a life in- terest inall her real estate and gives him all her personal property absolute- ly. They would also like the law changed which bars women from nearly all the elective of- fices. There are several other suggestions which they will make when the Legislature gets into the repealing business. Mean- while, its ‘‘anti’? members will have to dress up another scarecrow if they want to frighten the suffragists. Oo The president of the Arizona Federa- tion of Women's Clubs said, in a recent speech, ‘‘It requires courage to be a good statesman, and only nerve to be a good politician.” To apply this formula to suffrage—it requires only nerve to be a good anti-suffragist, but one really has to wonder where they get enough of it. IMlinois Getting Into Line The Illinois senate has passed Senator Magill’s woman-suffrage bill, without a constitutional amendment, giving women the right to vote in city, village and other local elections. It has a good chance of passing the house and becoming a law. comicbooks.com