Judge, 1915-01-09 · page 15 of 24
Judge — January 9, 1915 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes anti-suffrage arguments by highlighting their logical contradictions. Written by Ida Husted Harper, a suffrage advocate, it presents mock "snapshots" of anti-suffragist positions. **Key targets:** - The Anti-Suffrage Association's claim to protect "good name of American men," mocked as absurdly defensive - Southern resistance to women's voting while employing women police officers - Anti-suffragist rhetoric that women belong at home, yet two million children under fifteen work for wages (contradicting the "women's place" argument) - The cartoon "A Mutual Job" depicts suffragists and anti-suffragists as engaged partners in the same struggle **The satire's point:** Anti-suffragists claim men need protection from women seeking votes, yet simultaneously deny women economic protection and workplace rights. The final "Logic" section exposes how men claim to "protect" women by keeping them on pedestals in metaphor while forcing them to stand on actual trolleys and buses—revealing the gap between sentimental rhetoric and economic reality. The overall message: anti-suffrage positions are intellectually inconsistent.
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THE MODERN WOMAN { SUFFRAGE SNAPSHOTS By IDA HUSTED HARPER says he will try to have a law passed that no woxkingman shall marry a wage- tection from *‘lovesick maidens and schem- ing mothers.'’ He'd better go West, where there is not such a scarcity of men and earning woman who has not a union forbidden to swear, and then Colonel women can be more particular. card. Wouldn't a marriage certificate Goethals will have to get women to run } be a union card? his boats. South Carolina has employed three police- 9 a women. Well, if the men insist on electing The anti-suffragists have declared The Anti-Suffrage Association has is- an individual like Cole Blease forGovernor, officially that they “‘recognize man as sued ‘'The Woman’s Creed,’’ which says, it’s up to the women to protect the State. the head of the nation’s household.’ “I believe in making every effort to pro- oO All right, he is welcome to sit at the The new Socialist member of Congress LL THE pilots and captains on the Panama Canal are now required to be teetotalers. Pretty soon they will be head of the table; but that doesn’t mean a tect the good name of our American men from the attacks of the suffragists. Bless their soft little hearts! One would think from their litteratoor that the suffragists hadn't any men of their own that they would fight to the last ditch for if necessary. What the antis should do is to protect men from the blandishments of the suffra- gists after their votes. The government is closing all the saloons on the reservations to protect the Indians, and the Southern Legis- latures are passing drastic temperance laws to protect the negroes. It seems to be left to the women to de- mand measures for the protection of the white men. Help, help! The pastor of the First Spiritual Church in Worcester, Mass., has to appeal to the police for pro- A MUTUAL JOB that the rest of the family must not have their share of the good things on the table. o Two million children under fifteen years of age are working for bread, according to labor statistics. Wom- en’s ‘‘place’’ may be at home, but not all of them seem able to keep their children there. Logic Suffragist—The trouble with men is that they like to see us standing on pedestals. Feminist—Ah, now I see their rea- soning for the first time! That is why they like to keep us standing in trolleys and buses. Anti-suffragist—Y-e-s; aren't men really the most logical beings in the world, after all?—ethet R. Peyser. comicbooks.com