Judge — September 15, 1917 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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: bring S a € @ c § : § : SMEG OSLES APY J NW Will you help ae Christmas to the trenches ? A Christmas Box as a personal gift of cheer for Each American Soldier at the Front Every member of the JUDGE staff is con- tributing. Will You Help, Too? No matter how small the amount. Sub- scriptions of a dollar and over will be listed -In our columns, un- less the donor requests otherwise. Make checks payable to Leslie- Judge Co. Address : UDGE’S ® Trench Christmas Fund 225 Fifth Avenue New York GODS SDR LPT % he tZ SATO JUDGE THE MODERN WOMAN Suffrage Facts and Fancies By ANNA C A Reassurance , yes, I believe that women should vot said a gallant gentleman to a fair suffrage organizer, “but as for holding office, that is out of the question. The drain on the vitality of Jeannette Rankin as the result of sitting through the long sessions of the House of Repre- sentatives during this hot Washington summer will undoubtedly sap her young womanhood in a way frightful to contemplate.” “Dear man,” responded the organizer, “cheer up! During one whole week in the hot month of July the House of Representatives was in session exactly fifteen minutes. Don’t you think that almost any woman could stand that strain without collapsing?” The Bitter Cup T' may be all very well (though we won't admit it) for American women to have to ask American men for the vote, so runs the plaint of the suffs, but to have to ask unnatu- ralized alien men from countries where education is noted for its exclusiveness, and democracy is but a dream of a few fanatics: this is the cup of gall and wormwood to American women. And, be it noted, this is exactly what is happening in the state of Nebraska, where im- migrant men from any country under the sun, simply because they have lived in the state a few months and have said that they intend to become citizens sometime, have been permitted tosign the referendum petition that has suspended the act that ¢ presidential, county, and muni- cipal suffrage to Nebraska wome be permitted to go to the polls and say ch to American women, descended perhaps from the pioncers who came over in the Mayflower: “Go home and tend the baby. Voting is for men only.” The Sense of Justice a Primitive Virtue Witt 2N primitive man started on the road to civilization he had a certain equipment in his moral handbag and certain other virtues (and other things) he picked up along the way and put in the bag, with the result that his original virtues sank ever deeper in the bag and became less accessible all the time. Such was the fate of his sense of justice. To cite a case in point: The other day the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota gave equal suffrage to the women of the tribe, and none of them, so far as reported, spent a sleepless night worrying over the consequences to the wigwam and Indian society. At about the same time in the ultra civilized commonwealth of Massachusetts the committce on woman suffrage of the constitutional conven- tion dug a pit and buried in it the woman suf- frage amendment, in spite of the fact that every man of them knew in his heart of hearts that it was but an act of simple justice. 1DOGAN ETZ Now the men of Massachusetts want to be just to women, but when civilized man starts out to do justice to anybody, he finds himself so hampered with other considerations that blur the issue th practically impossible for him to produce justice out of his moral handbag with the simple twist of the wrist shown by the Chippewa Indians. It is Not Now as it Was Then R. PRESIDENT,” rose the clear voice of Susan B. Anthony in the midst of a shocked hush in a state teachers’ convention in Rochester in August, 1853. And when the chair- man recovered from his horror he sneeringly asked, “What will the lady have?” She merely wanted to speak to the question, but as there was no historical precedent for a woman's so wishing to unsex herself, she had to stand half an hour while the men thrashed out the awful innovation and when it was over victory was hers. The women drew their skirts away from her in scorn as she left the hall. In 1017 the Natio exclaimed with enthu: Bradford!” and when the convention president.” And listen as one might to echoes from eve nook and cranny of the educational world, never an echo of horror rends the air because a woman has burst the bounds of sex and been seated in a chair supposedly reserved for “men only. al Education Association sm, “Mrs. Mary C. C. he lady asked, “What will have?” it answered, “Be our Why this Lurking Fear? RENOR has it that in England Mr. Asquith was converted to woman suffrage and proportional representation in two consecutive breaths. And why? Well, rumor also has it that he feared that the enfranchisement of eight million women might lead to the politics of England being controlled by women In short in fearful fancy he saw eight million women standing solidly together and by their votes putting men politically in the back seat, if not out of the arena altogether. Because proportional representation saves the minority from political suffocation, he grasped at it, in his wish to preserve the political prestige of his sex, much a drowning man grasps at a straw. Now millions of women have had the right to vote in various places for decade after decade and yet the thing he dreaded has never hap- pened. In fact it has been proved to be exactly the thing that never will happen. Qucer then, where the man got the idea, wasn’t it? In truth he dug it out of his own breast. For what he feared that women might do to men is the very thing that men have been doing to women ever since some one struck a match and lighted the torch of civilization.