Judge — March 7, 1914 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Suffragisms By OREOLA W. HASKELL The Choice BEFORE thy mighty throne, oh, Native Land, For Freedom's boon, behold two suppli- ants stand: The one an alien, puzzled at the view Of customs, language, laws still strange and new; Whose mind of all thy glorious past hoards naught, Whose knowledge of thy works is but half taught; Who feels but faintly loyalty and love For the fair flag that floats thy forts above. The other is thy child, within thee bred, Who feels thy spirit quicken heart and head; Who thrills to all thy needs and hopes and fears, Thy speech, thy statutes known and loved for years; And, trained within great Learn- ing’s cloistered hall, Ready and fit for service shouldst thou call. Which shalt thou bless with the bal- lot of the free, The power to control their human needs and thee? The alien wins—the man? Thy child is banned? A woman she? Alas, my Native Land! Equality and justice now must seem, From thy false use, but baubles of a dream, Parable of the Mother AT A meeting of the men of a tribe, a woman arose and spake to them, saying, “I speak for the women of my tribe, yea, for all women. Ye have urged us to produce for you sons and daughters, and, lo! we have done so. But ye imperil them on every side. Fruits and the flesh of kine, milk and honey have ye tainted, so that their life is in danger; and raiment have ye made in places rank with filth and direful with disease, so that we fear for our offspring. And work have ye turned from a blessing into a curse, so that they must toil too young or at labor that doth make of them machines with- out joy or the power to grow. And over all ye have hung the dark and ever- threatening cloud of war. Why have ye done this, oh, men, if ye wish us to pro- duce and rear children for the tribe, blessed in the sight of all?’’ And a man answered her reprovingly, saying, THE MODERN WOMAN “It is not for women to know these things, but to do what is told, as becomes humble vessels.’” But the woman persisted, saying, “We cannot bear that these things be. If ye will not change them, give us the power to control them, and we will trou- ble ye no more.’” But they mocked her, saying, “Go forth and wipe the question marks from thy mind.’? Then, lo! before their eyes a miracle was performed, for whereas the woman had entered an anti, she went forth one of the tribe of suffragists. IF HE SHOULD COME BACK Washington—Surely, women are persons, Suffrage Snapshots Dy IDA HUSTED HARPER A MAN was excused from serving as Z juror in a murder trial in New York lately because his wife wouldn’t allow him to convict any one of murder. Out in Oregon a juror was challenged the other day because his wife had already been accepted and it would be impossible for him to give an unbiased opinion. What makes people think that under equal suf- frage wives would all vote with their husbands? The Turkish government has established a gymnasium in the Sultanian School for Ottoman Girls and placed a woman at the head of it. Perhaps it thinks that if Turkish men had known how to fight, the results of the late war might have been different, and is getting ready for another. One member of the lower House of Congress obtained unanimous consent that another member’s eulogy on his dog should be printed in the Congressional Record. Worse stuff probably has gone into that Record; but if two women mem- bers of the Legislature in some of those Western States had been guilty of this performance, wouldn’t the country have rung with their unfitness for office? oO It is said that crime among children in France is startling the nation. This is one awful example which cannot be at- tributed to the fact that the mothers are suffragists, is] A monument has recently been unveiled in South Africa to the memory of twenty thousand women and children who died in the concentration camps during the late war. The total num- ber of men on both sides who gave up their lives was less than ten thousand. And yet women must not ask for a voice in the government, because they cannot serve their coun- try in time of war! o The anti-suffragists announce a series of meetings of women wage- earners in the near future to protest against having a vote thrust upon them. They'd better make it as near as possible, for all the women’s trade unions now are really suffrage socie- ties, and the ‘‘antis’’ can gather in only the unorganized, who have yet a great deal to learn about how to protect themselves. oO People used to object to letting women vote, because of the publicity it would give them; but nowadays when one sees the public stunts of the suffragists trying to get the ballot, and of the ‘‘antis’’ try- ing to prevent it, he devoutly wishes that they might all be made voters at once, so they could retire to the privacy of their homes and families. A Russian woman has just started to explore an Arabian desert of thousands of miles, which no European has ever en- tered. How thankful she should be that the heavy burden of casting a ballot has not been imposed on her! Under a woman school superintendent in Rowan County, Kentucky, the number of illiterates in two years has been re- duced from 1,152 to 23, and these are physically incompetent. One of the great dangers of equal suffrage is that women might aspire to hold office! comicbooks.com