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This Judge magazine page satirizes anti-suffrage arguments through columnist Oreola W. Haskell's commentary on women's voting rights. **"How They Reason"** mocks male opponents of female suffrage by cataloging their contradictory objections: women's voting will ruin housekeeping, destroy families, reduce male support, or—paradoxically—give women "too much power." The satire exposes how these arguments lack logical consistency, revealing prejudice masquerading as reason. **"Suffrage Couples"** ridicules anti-suffragists' claims that voting women neglect families and husbands. The piece notes that many suffragists are actually married couples working together on the campaign, holding respectable positions. This undermines opponents' dire predictions about family breakdown, suggesting their fears are exaggerated propaganda ("teary things about disrupted families"). The page's surrounding advertisements—for whisky, "Sexology" books, and art instruction—appear incidental to the satirical content, typical of Judge's mixed editorial/advertising format. **Political context**: This reflects the 1910s women's suffrage debates preceding the 1920 19th Amendment.

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But when I went with voters’ lists, to canvass with the suffragists, these are men’s reasons I took note, why women should not get the vote. “My wife makes pies, best of their kind, she must not vote, ‘twould spoil her mind.” “Why should you vote, these the facts, you don’t drive trucks nor w the axe.” “When you can vote, you'll lose not score, men won't support you any more.” “If women vote their homes they'll leav let children cry and husbands grie “Woman's made angel-like, remote, to scrub the floor but not to vote.” “God bless the ladies! ’Tis my vaunt, I'll give them all but—” what they want. “Men treat their women just and right, yet if women vote, the two will fight.” “If women get more power, the men, will not respect or like them then.” “I won't say yes, I won’t say nay, I have no reasons either way.” And so it goes until my brain is filled with wonder and with pain. And ofttimes at length were they in earn- est about reason’s sway,or were they conscious ere they spoke that t is but a mighty joke, and knew that few of mortals gain, much foothold upon Reason’s plane. Suffrage Couples HILE the common theory has been that the working suffragist has either failed to catch a masculine life partner at all or has caught one that she doesn’t like, the suffrage campaign in New York State is bring- ing suffrage couples more and more to the fore. They are men and women who speak from the same platforms, write for suffrage papers, go touring the state together and act in every way with an amicable agreement is quite disconcerting to the opponents rights who have had a gorgeous ti writing teary things about disrupted families. Brooklyn is rich in suffrage couples having several, Manhattan has ma while Rich- mond, Queens and the Bron proudly point to good specimens of the same. Of course this may be another example of how the poor male is being browbeaten these days, but when one knows that most of these husbands hold high positions either in the business or political world, it does not seem as though their individualities had suffered very much from the alleged steam roller methods of their suffrage mates. The Elusive Voter DEEN and women who are canvassing the voters of New York City have many stories to tell of the conditions they find. At one home in the tenements a : asked to call later when the man of thebox, would presumably be ornamenti his hearthside. She did call later in the when the wife said: all | “Tt ain’t no use to call. Heain' | he won't be here. Yer see,” Paras jugged to-day.” f The Colored Woman HILE woman suffrage has bee written about by people of nationalities and considered from mary aspects, a recent edition of a magaiie issued for colored readers which discused votes for women had as interesting » addition to the arguments in favor as has been given in a long while. The arp. ment in brief is The Colored Womay herself, and Miss N. H. Burroughs sy; of her: Justice: There's something wrong with these sas “The Negro Church means the Negro wom an, Without her, the race could not properly support five hundred churches in the whok To-day they have 40,000 churchesia nited States. She is not only a great spiritual asset, but she is a great asset, as she bears a great dal more than her economic share in the home. Because the black man does not know the value of the ballot and has bartered and sold his mest valuable possession, it is no ev dence that the Negro woman will do the same. The Negro woman needs the ballot to get back by the wise use of it what the Nego man has lost by the misuse of it. She needs it to ransom her race. In every reform during the past fifty years the Negro wom has been as aggressive, progressive and dependable as those who led the reform. She is quite superior in bearing responsibility.” comicbooks.com