Judge, 1916-01-08 · page 23 of 28
Judge — January 8, 1916 — page 23: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page satirizes the women's suffrage movement and political hypocrisy. The article by Anna Cadogan Etz discusses how Western states granted women voting rights through quiet persuasion—women "whispered 'votes for women' so gently in men's ears that the men thought it was their own idea"—contrasting with the more militant, confrontational British approach that achieved less. The cartoon "Looking Backward" depicts suffragists outside a "Civic Museum," likely mocking how suffragists' efforts would become historical relics rather than current victories. The "Heard in the Corridors of the Capitol" section satirizes congressional hypocrisy: multiple congressmen justify opposite votes on suffrage using contradictory logic about states' rights, majority rule, and government principle—exposing how politicians disguise partisan positions with convenient constitutional arguments. The Cascade Whisky advertisement is simply period product placement, unrelated to the political content.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
THE MODERN WOMAN Suffrage Facts and Fancies | By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ + Votes for Women—How Won and Lost M WILL give women the vote. They have already to four million. more or less, in these United States. Men refuse to stand and deliver. Annie Kenney inaugurated the militant suffrage movement in Eng- land by standing up at a political meeting and asking, just as a man might have asked: ‘What are you going to do about votes for women?" The whole world knows the story. Long years have passed and English women are no nearer the goal than on that fateful night. | In the meantime state after state has been won by the women in the West and how? ‘The greatest successes have 1 achieved where the women gumshoed softly and whispered aa votes for women” so iene a | gently in men’s ears that the men thought it was theig own idea. Did | come nearest: winning out in the East? 2 | . Women No Political Quitters : qt THOSE women had been men they would have banged out of the room; hired a hall; and started a rump convention,” was the cor en JUBT os Neture must depend upon ment made by a mere man, discussing in the hotel lobby the peacef a rennsblcaalegletiRas things cs ing of the exciting suffrage convention held in Philadelphia. A large group make a striking landscape, so does Cascade combine superior elements i j and natural treatment to produce its goodness. Original Bottling hes Old Geld Label GEO. A. DICKEL & CO., Distillers Nashville, Tenn. The pleasure of living lies in using good things moderately. LOOKING BACKWARD of insurgents had fought to the bitter end, only to appear smiling at the finish, meekly: swallowing the pill of defeat It is thus with eating, with drinking, with Which goes to show that John Stuart Mill was more right: than wrong when he declared that politics was the only field from which women were playing, with working, with everything hopelessly excluded, and also the only field of human activity in which we they had proved their superiority And it is for the man who knows well the H Heard in the Corridors of the Capitol benefits of moderation that we make a Congressman: 1 voted against the woman suffrage amendment wonderfully mild and mellow Whiskey ‘ause 1 believe th it is a matter for the states lorslecides and put it in Non-Refillable Bottles— Another Congressman: T voted for the woman. sufirs so that the states might have a chance to decide the question in the Wilson—Real Wilson—That’s All! | way provided by the Constitution 5 And Another: T voted a I won't be a party to forcing woman suffrage on unwilling states. inst the woman suffrage amendment, because | The Whiskey for which we invented the Non-Refillable Bottle And Yet Another: [voted for the woman suffrage amendment, so that | the states as a whole might decide on the policy of the nation. No FREE CLUB RECIPES—Free booklet of famous club recipes for | question is ever carried unanimously. Why should woman suffrage be so. | mixed drinks, Address Wilson, 315 Fifth Ave, N. Y. That's All! carried? | And Again: I voted t the woman suffrage amendment, because I don’t believe in government by the minority And Finally: 1 voted for the woman suf ge amendment, because 1 do believe in government by the majority. The amendment can't be adopted without the consent of three-fourths of the states, and if so large 1 majority want it, it ought to happen. | | comicbooks.com