Life — February 23, 1911 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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394 -LIFE--> It Was a Cruel Hoax—Priscilla is Still Alive and Kicking HEER up, dear girls!’ I am very far from being dead, and am still with you and for the Cause. The whole thing was a trick of those miserable Antis. This was how it happened The day that Lire goes to press they picketed my house, and when the boy came out with my article two or three of them grabbed him and by main force threw him into an automobile. Then they took him to the Ritz- Carlion restaurant and drugged him with ice-cream and cake. While there they took my envelope out of his pocket and in place of it put a letter to Lire saying that I was dead. They made the little fellow believe that the kid- napping was all a joke instead of a horrible crime. I didn’t know a thing about it until one of the dear sisters came around and asked me when my funeral was to be and what kind of flowers I preferred. The will was a forger, Much as I despise the Antis I didn't think they were capable of such a thing. They are always talking so much about being “ womanly” that I didn't think they would ever resort to brute force. If they are going to lend themselves to tactics of that kind they might just as well be Suffragettes. HEAR there has been a serious falling off in the number of passengers carried by the Elevated Railroad, and I am glad of it. The company has refused ‘to put in clevators at the request of our sisters who wear hobble skirts and as they are unable to go up the stairs the surface roads are getting their trade. The next move is to be against the street cars, and a committee of our down-trodden sisters is about to go to the management with a de mand that the doors of the cars be widened, so that a self-respecting woman can enter without ducking her head to ing her hat. Jf we had Votes for Women and Suffragettes one side to save bri were running things we would not be subjected to these indignities and inconveniences Everybody knew that the Board of Aldermen would not take any action abridging our rights to poke out people's eyes with protruding hat-pins. The Board of Aldermen never does anything without se rood reason. The mere fact that a few brute men have lost 1! es or been wounded in other ways is not enough to © the Aldermen take any action against a sex which some day may have votes to cast A silly woman—an Anti, of course-—has heen writing t the Swn about what would happen with regard to women's serving on juries and in the militia in case they got the vote. She represents her idiotic son as asking, “If my mother had to be on a jury and maybe be locked up in a hotel lots of nights, besides being away all day, who would make our bread and pies or tell us when it was time to get up mornings?” In the first place, when we get the vote there will be lady juries and gentlemen juries, and women being naturally more honest than men will not have to be locked up. As for the militia, Mr. Andrew Carnegie has kindly arranged it so there will be no more wars, and that question is as silly as the other. T necd for a woman's newspaper is s a crying one, or, better yet, every newspaper should be compelled to have a woman editor, with power to keep out such trash as this, which was printed in the Denver Post: The women whose votes are purchasable at elec- tions by the highest bidder, and they, sad to relate, are a fast growing number, seem to regard the ques- tion as they would the taking of their neighbor's umbrella, as legitimate loot; show it, brag of the ease of ‘the lift, and quite unblushingly give it up when the owner. comes along and says, That is mine A number of women workers shook “ their price” laughingly into the faces of others and said, “ Why not?” If these same women had been asked ‘to steal a loaf of bread or go shoplifting or commit perjury to help a friend, they would have been horrified or fainted at the mere suggestion. But they did not turn an eyelash when they sold their votes, and then they refused to deliver the goods and frankly boasted how they had turned the trick. That sort of talk doesn’t do a newspaper any good and I am surprised that our voting sisters in Colorado do not pass a law suppressing the vile sheet. The Denver Times is just as bad, and tells about a woman who, entering a polling place, said: “I want two ballots, as I wish to cast one for my sister, who is ill and unable to come to the polls.” “Your sister will have to cast her vote in person or not at all,” answered the judge austerely. “You mean to say that my sister is to be deprived of her franchise simply because she is indisposed and cannot come to your old polling plac “T certainly do.” “Well, then, I won't vote either; and I want to tell you. young man, that this looks like fraud to me, and I am goin to report it to Prohibition headquarters and also call up the police.” When we get the vote in New York State you may be sure that we will show those Color. women the right way to deal with newspapers Paiscita Jawnoxes USP FoR THHte SHPRED THOT STH sient comicbooks.com