Judge — May 31, 1913 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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J HS-‘MO DS Suffragette ‘OW can anybody say that the day of miracles is past when the Legisla- tures of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania have voted to submit an amendment for woman suffrage? When they do this the second time, look out for the Day of Judgment! It will come the first Tuesday after the first Monday of the following November. The vice-president of the Tennessee Woman Suffrage Association said, in a recent interview, ‘‘The Southern men are simply rushing to join us. I’ve heard hundreds of them say, ‘We have never fought our women, and we never will. What they want, they can have.’'’ And yet this past winter the Legislatures of Texas, Arkan- sas, Missouri, West Virginia and Florida, and last winter those of Virginia and Maryland, refused to allow the rest of the men in those States a chance to give the women what they wanted. Women never can be sure men will give them what they want until they ask for something men don’t want them to have. Cable dispatches announce that Prime Minister Asquith has had his hair cut and that he has never looked so well and hearty. Score Sna By IDA HUSTED HARPER sisters could get at the truth, they would find that they are much more anxious to be doormats than the men are to have them in that capacity. Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart, of Harvard University, always an anti-suffragist, has been converted by spending four months in California and Colorado. ‘*The women voters,’’ he says, ‘‘most aggravatingly destroyed all the arguments on which I had been basing my opposition for a life- time, and my objections faded away." It usually works like that, and there should be no further argument in the pshots The Rothschilds are said to have given $15,000 to the British Anti-Suffrage Association. The vote in the hands of women would prove a strong factor in preventing the wars of the future. a ohn Martin, a leader of the id recently, in a public address in New York, “If they dare attempt to force the ballot on us here in the East, they will find that we are the daughters of the heroes who fought and bled at Con- cord and Lexington, who starved at Val- ley Forge!” Seems as if we had heard somewhere that those heroes did all that for the specific purpose of obtain- ing the right of representation. “*Descendants’’ is a very suitable word to apply to their daughters. is} There is some talk of celebrat- ing the centenary of men’s trou- sers and stove-pipe hats—two of the most ungainly articles of ap- parel ever devised. The former, perhaps, they will always have with them; but let us hope the hat will not survive to celebrate its second centenary. is) Eleven anti-suffrage dinners were given in Boston the same evening, and then the guests assembled in the largest of the homes for anti- ko0 Row one for the suffragettes! Judging by the daily news from London, anybody would have thought that Mr. Asquith was a nervous wreck, with not a hair left on his head, A woman government inspector of labor in France has come to the United States to study the condition of working women, but she hasn't been able to do a thing, because her sympathies are so wrought up over the condition of the American Man, collectively speaking. ‘‘I have never seen men so browbeaten and bul- lied,’? she says. Poor Melican man! Foreigners are always taking this view of his position, and the amazing thing is that he has never discovered it himself. He goes right along thinking American women are the most desirable in all the world, and the funny part of it is that so ™many men in other countries seem to share this view. Maybe if the foreign WINNING OUT ON THE LONG ENDURANCE TEST future tense. If woman suffrage will do all sorts of dreadful things, it has done them and people should demand to be shown, “Bachelors are much more likely to become insane than married men,”’ is the decision of the Massachusetts Mental Hygiene Conference. Yes, the mere fact that they choose to remain bachelors shows a lack of mental balance. (e) A man died the other day who for many years had been noted for being able to bring down one hundred live birds with one hundred consecutive shots. It is not women alone who are responsible for the slaughter of the innocents, and killing for sport has less justification than killing for trade. suffrage speeches, all by men. Press reports said ‘‘the gowns were magnificent.” That goes without saying, and the wearers had all the rights they wanted. If other women were crying for bread, let them eat cake. [a] Explanation given by those who are holding up the money subscribed to the Scott antarctic fund: ‘*We are still wait- ing for the government to move.’’ That was the case with the suffragettes, and finally they decided to help the govern- ment get a move on. Civilized Methods Prevail While our English sisters in the suf- frage movement are alienating the public by resorting to arson and arsenic as a means of persuading Parliament to grant them the franchise, the American move- ment, through the more diplomatic policy of its leaders is steadily gaining converts. comicbooks.com