Judge — January 24, 1914 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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od with banners, the sufrage coborts £0, And ha 1 the curd, look out for weal or woe. ‘And note what word the gaping world in passing may bestow, The Difference HE WOMEN once were scored in jests Or loud denounced as dreadful pests When in fair Washington they'd meet, To storm the government's high seat. But now with smiles and speeches neat Each legislator doth them greet. Since they’ve not changed in looks or brain, ‘The reason is both clear and plain That backing them, a mighty band, A million voting sisters stand. Men Suffragists (CONGRESSMAN -AT-LARGE KEATING, of Colorado, re- plying to Mr. Heflin’s taunt that no men except cowards or mollycoddles believe in woman suffrage, says that the Westerners who have given the ballot to women are descendants of the best brain and brawn of the country, since by toil and hardship of the severest kind they converted a wilderness into a garden. ‘The cowards stayed at home,’’ says Mr. Keating, ‘‘and the weaklings died on the way,’’ so that only the strong- est and the most dauntless left the East for the hazards of the West. American women may well be proud not only that they have been enfran- chised by such sturdy manhood, but that for ‘once strength and justice have been joined together. A Statistician ISS KATHERINE GILES is capable of making such de- THE MODERN WOMAN Curbside By OREOLA W. HASKELL from an equality with men legally. They surely have things quite twisted, for we have it straight from our anti friends that as soon as women grab the ballot,, men will get even by taking away their property rights and other safeguards be- fore the law. A Change of Frost MAY suffragists of Greater New York are visiting the Night Court and pendable observations on cotton sta- tistics that she is often employed by” the United States government to make reports. She is quoted as saying that she loves her work and would not give it up even for that soul-satisfying thing—matrimony. That statistics should conquer love is enough to make the dole- ful prophets of this woman's age take an- other long breath and sail forth into fiery philippics. Alaskan Men THE MEN of Alaska gave full suffrage to women in the first bill passed by the Territorial Legislature, and now, by a Special section of their compiled laws, they repeal all statutes that keep women IN THE TOILS learning a bit of a side of life about which there is much deplorable ignorance among good women. A woman long opposed to political rights for her sex accompanied a party of her more enlightened sisters to the court and was shocked at the discrim- ination made against the unfortunate women tried before her. Upon leaving, she was heard to say with some feeling, “I've always said I didn’t believe in the ballot for women, on account of en- franchising the prostitutes of our big cities; but now I believe that, above all, they are the women who should be given the ballot to use as a weapon of defense." Comments Soffragisms Parable of the Ancient Head—And it came to pass that a certain tribe wearied of the ancient ways of their fathers and sought for change. And among other things they sought to do honor to her who should be adjudged among women the most new. And many women entered in, hoping to be made first. And there came one with garments slit fore and aft, decked with fine linen and myrrh and frankincense and with strange head- gear, brandishing sidewaysly a dust- er of feathers toward the eyes of all who could not dodge. And much learning had she and could spout. within the gates even as her broth- ers. And all marveled, believing she would win. But the judge spake much with her, and, lo! he passed her by, saying, “Verily, thy garments cry with loud voices that thou art up to date, and thy learning seems to proclaim thee new, even as thy works. But within thy mind lurk thoughts born of thy sex’s slavery—thoughts of weakness, deception, lack of self- respect. Therefore thy head is an- cient—that of the Old, not of the New Woman.”’ And she rent her garments and went and sate with a backnumber who was two months behind the style, for she realized for the first time that it is the attitude of mind that makes of one a new and of an- other an old sister. Quotations IF WOMEN had the ballot, they would drive corruption out. I should like to see the ballot in the hands of every woman.—Mark Twain. It is very cheap wit that finds it so droll that a woman should vote.—Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Juvenile Court of Denver has al- ways had back of it the support of the women, especially of the mothers of Den- ver, and whatever success it may be cred- ited with is largely, if not entirely, due to their efforts.—Judge Ben Lindsey. I go for all sharing the privileges of government whoassist in bearing its bur- dens, by no means excluding females.— Abraham Lincoln, comicbooks.com