Judge — August 22, 1914 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HAKPER F THE colonel feels a little disheartened at the lapses in the Progressive party while he was away revising the map of South America, he can cheer up at the boom in votes for women. There will be more than twice as many of them in 1916 as when he set out to round them up two years ago. The ancient question, ‘‘Could women voters work out their road tax?’’ has been answered by two in Iowa. They did worse, for they won two out of three prizes offered by the county for work on highways. It was all right for them to do the work, but very wrong for them to win the prizes. ‘*Persons who try to stop the woman suffrage movement,"’ said a Chicago elections commission- er, “are in the position of a man throwing himself in front of a locomotive.’? Well, they always hope that the bosses who run the political machines will put on the air brakes. is) The women of Nevada have been holding a ‘‘sacrifice’’ week to raise money for their suffrage campaign, as also have women in the neighboring States to help them. By the way, can any- body recall any special sacrifice to earn the right that has been made by the men who are now doing the voting in the United States? “Feminism is the process of putting father out of business,’’ is a specimen anti-suffrage epigram. If feminism means that able-bodied young women shall earn their own living, perhaps father will have a chance to get some- thing ahead for his old age. o “The men are to put on their clothes with a shoe horn,’’ is the latest fashion edict. We shall not believe it till we see it, and even then we shall look the other way. An “‘inspired’’ article says that there are signs of a revolt ainong the wives in nearly all the royal families of Europe, and that ‘‘it is because the ideas of Mrs. Pankhurst have permeated the circles of royalty.’’ If Mrs. Pankhurst had accom- plished no more than this, she would de- serve all the honors her followers claim for her. For the second time a Radcliffe girl has won the $100 prize open to students of all colleges for the best essay on municipal government. Oh, y women may be very good on the theory, but only men have the practical knowledge. Just ob- serve what a shining success they have made of city governments! Lou Rocers A SIMPLE CASE OF COMMON SENSE Mrs, Sam—I'm too big for this, Sam—I need meat and potatoes. Curbside Comments hy OLEOLA W. HASKELL Jastice OD HAS heard it through the ages, When the serried hosts went down, In the blare and din of battle That laid waste the towered town, Through the halls of pomp it echoed, Filled the conqueror with care— The long, long cry for justice, Half a hope, and half a prayer. Now the lips long mute are vocal, And the hearts once weak are strong; And ’tis woman lifts the cadence ’Gainst sex tyranny and wrong. Not through war and smoking ruins She will win, but that for years She has laved the feet of Justice With the bitter rain of tears. HERE are eighty-three woman-suf- frage publications throughout the world. Every country in Europe has.a suffrage paper, as has also South America, South Africa, Asia, Egypt, India, China and Australia. Yellow journals these may be, since they are true to the suf- frage color; but the work they are doing cannot fail to make the antis blue. An Opinion FTEN accused of being theorists, suf- fragists are apt to don gratified smirks when they find their ideas in- dorsed by plain and practical people. A gentleman who has been recently robbed expressed surprise to a company of friends over the fact that a detective with whom he had had many confabs, when asked rather jocularly about the feminist movement, answered with quiet conviction, “Say, I'm with the women. They're dead right. They don’t |} get no show in the courts with us. I see it every day.” In the strong light of this man’s practical experience, the picture of lovely woman weeping in the prisoner’s chair, and thus making pulpy with pity the hearts of twelve jurymen anda sentimental judge, looks a bit faded and unreal. When this scene seems to be enacted, it might be well to wonder whether womanhood itself is effective or whether social position bulwarked by 8 family’s standiny and influence makes for clemency. Exhibits PERMANENT International Suffrage Exhibtt is proposed as a feature of all great expositions of the future, begin- ning with the Panama-Pacific exhibit in 1915. Literature, statistical matter, post- ers and cartoons relating to the enfran- chisement of women will make the booth interesting. Those weary souls who are tired of having the question flaunted from every place and at all times might com- bine and give the movement a boost to- ward victory, helping thus to relegate it to the limbo of the usual and the com- monplace. comicbooks.com