Judge — June 14, 1913 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Modern Suffragette Snapshots LECTURER goes all the way from Berkeley, Cal., to tell Pittsburgh ministers that they must eat two ap- ples a day and plenty of onions. But when would they make their parish calls? The newspapers are fairly bristling with editorials commending the dignified and womanly methods of the American suffragists as compared with the mili- tancy of their English sisters. No cam- paigns ever were conducted with more dignity and womanliness than those of Ohio and Wisconsin last year and Michi- gan this spring, and the men expressed their high appreciation by adverse ma- jorities of tens of thousands in each State. If women possessed the logi- cal male mind, they would consider whether some other methods would not be justified. At a recent suffrage meeting in the large Methodist church of Mo- bile, Ala., the chairman asked all in favor to stand, and almost the en- tire audience rose. You would hardly expect to find the forces which defeat woman suffrage in a Methodist or any other kind of a church. is) The members of the Illinois Leg- islature have recently been giving an example of that dignity and self- control which make men so em nently fitted to govern. ‘‘ You wart!"’ “You dirty little shrimp!” were some of the choice epithets applied. Imagine a woman legislator calling another woman member a wart! No mat- ter what she might think, she would never be so unladylike. Those who oppose giving the suffrage to women, on the ground that they are not yet fitted for the wise use of it, are recommended to read the last message of President Taft to the American people, in which he said, ‘Bearing always in mind that the ultimate purpose of our administration of the Philippines is the training of the people in the art of self- government, they have been intrusted with a steadily increasing share in the management of their political affairs, and step by step have been given an in- creasing measure of authority in their municipal, provincial and national gov- ernment."” If ignorant and half-civilized Filipino men can thus be educated into wise self- government, is this not possible in the case of American women? Nobody ever hears a doubt expressed in the States where they have the vote. It is only in the others that the anti-suffrage women are like the old negro, who, when asked why he didn’t make himself fit to get religion, answered, ‘‘Cos I ain’t fitten to git fit!’ “To vote John Martin, the anti-suffrage intelligently,” says Mrs. leader, HAULING HIM TO A HIGHER LEVEL “‘means that women would have to hob- nob, and they don’t know how to do it."’ Did Mrs. Martin ever attend a meeting of any of the big organizations of women on the eve of an election? The Equal Franchise League of New Haven, Conn., adopted resolutions de- claring that the only way to get the suf- frage is by ‘appealing to man’s reason and sense of justice and his realization of the need of woman’s help in the per- fection of social conditions and civic in- stitutions.’ Then they went over to Hartford and watched the house of rep- resentatives kill the suffrage bill by a vote of 150 to 74. A Wells College profes- sor tells the graduates that the highest degree they can ever win is that of ‘‘Mrs."’ It depends altogether on the kind of a man that confers the degree. A Seattle paper, in commenting on the treatment accorded the woman-suffrage parade in Washington, said, ‘*Men of the West find it hard to understand how such an outrage could have taken place with so few casualties; in Seattle it would have been followed by an unusual num- ber of funerals. Is it possible the men of the Eastern States have degenerated into the degraded moral condition of the Asiatics?"” And Omar Garwood, of Colo- rado, secretary of the National Men’s League for Woman Suffrage, said, ‘I'd like to have used my fists on some of those rowdies. Can you understand men—real men—stand- ing idly by? Ican’t.’’ All of which demonstrates the way in which woman suffrage destroys chivalry. A news item says that, at the time of the Ohio flood, several hun- dred members of the Woman Suf- frage Party in Cleveland got to- gether and made fourteen hundred garments for children of the suffer- ers. There must be some mistake. In the first place, as soon as a wom- an begins to work for the suffrage, she forgets how to sew; and in the second place, she loses all humane and charitable instincts. This is a stock indictment of the ‘‘antis.’" It is said that the new Congress will, at the earliest possible moment, confer the franchise on the men of Porto Rico. Are there any other male citizens with- out a vote? If so, give it to them as soon as possible, for there is no chance for women so long as a man is outside the political fold. That Englishwoman who conducted her own suit for libel against a newspaper delivered a speech of 513,000 words, and then lost the case. She should have made it a million and been sure of at least a new trial, as the judge and most of the jury would have been dead or paralyzed before the end of it. comicbooks.com