Judge — March 10, 1917 — page 19: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

SUFFRAGE FACTS AND FANCIES by Anna Cadogan Etz The Best Was Yet To Come ‘ORTH DAKOTA! Lost to suffrage in 1914 by over nine thousand. NORTH DAKOT. Where it was rumored not long since that the suffrage bill had been put in cold storage in an iron safe to keep it from coming to a favorable vote. North Dakota! Why just the other day the press reported that woman suffrage in North Dakota had been lost in the shuffle with the state owned elevator. North Dakota has stepped to the front of the suffrage procession of 1917 and given Presidential and municipal suffrage to its women! Presidential suffrage is the royal road to full suffrage, while school, tax, and bond suffrage is the sure road to oblivion. Listen to the public men in Illinois de- claring that it is outrageous that Illinois women can vote for President and not for legislators; that they must have full suffrage at once.” Susan B. Anthony, dear, Wise pioneer, she saw how the land lay; that women by the use of crumbs of suffrage would only antagonize men; and that to strike for the Presidential Suffrage, that was the King’ ghway. All hail to North Dakota! May other states hasten to emulate. Then the time will come when no longer will intelligent women have to spend good time standing endlessly at the White House gates bear- ing banners which forcibly feed to the passing Executive his own brave words about self government as the basic prin- ciple of human society. Twas An Idle Boast HEN the suffragists got tired of talking—in spite of the prevailing opinion that that was the one thing they never would do—they invented the voiceless speech. ‘was a clever scheme and thousands of pedestrians, who could not have been haled into a suffrage meeting, have stood enthralled at the sight of a pretty girl in a store window, gravely turning over card after card. each bearing a crisp statement telling why votes for women is the most important thing under the sun. Some ofthe most chesty sufis openly boasted that, in street parlance, they had “beat the men to it.” "Twas an idle boast based on sex conceit and wilful ignorance of the resourcefulness of the male mind. For the voiceless speech is not in the same class with the speechless speech, long since devised by men to fill a pressing political need. For the speechless speech does not require that men stand long hours in store windows in a blaze of publicity in order to get their message across. They merely sit tongue-tied and dozefully in their chairs in Congress, bestirring them- selves but for one brief moment, in which they get permission to have printed in the Congressional Record speeches they might like to make or wish they had made, but which in fact they do not make. And these speechless speeches they send by the thousand, at the expense of the taxpayer, to their constituents, in order to impress them with the fact that they are represented in Congress by a most able and important person. No, women are rushing the game when they boast of political superiority to men. Men have sat in too long. . Ep porn NOT A LEG TO STAND ON Back to the Teacups i Be suffrage campaign in New York State in 1915 pursued its vivid and spectacular way until election day re- corded that the over half a million men who voted for suffrage were not enough. Then a weird thing happened—weird for women I mean—perfect silence. No one would have guessed that the women who had rushed with intrepidity into men’s meetings where angels might have feared to tread, and who had been so noisy on soap boxes, could have used the soft pedal so efficiently. Had the woman suffrage movement collapsed? A very bad guess that. It paused awhile to browse over the elec- tion returns. It noted that victory perched nearest in old Pennsylvania, where campaign methods had been most unobtrusive. Then it gathered itself together and gum-shoed back to the erstwhile despised ways of the suffrage pioneers. Hence the calm weather. Thus the suffrage movement, like every other move on and upward, has had to loop the loop; return on itself and gather fresh momentum for another plunge. And in the recurve the most advanced suffragists are to be found do- ing all the things they sniffed at in the 1915 campaign. They trudge patiently from door to door and hold heart to heart talks with the housewife. The pre-election slogan had been: “Don’t waste time with the women. On to the voter!” But the most remarkable revert of all has been back to the tea-cups of ten, twenty, yea, thirty years ago. To even recall those early suffrage teacup days has been to laugh. Now they are much in evidence all over the state, and the teacup has come again into its own as a shaper of human destiny. And in the year 1917, after election, again stock will be taken by the suffra- gists, and then it will be proved whether the best way to the goal is to lift. the pleading voice above the multitude in the crowded street, or to whisper it softly to the musical hum of the parlor teakettle.