Life, 1912-02-22 · page 12 of 44
Life — February 22, 1912 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains an article titled "Suffrage by Indirection" by Rudolf Blankenburg, wife of Philadelphia's new Mayor. The text argues that women should influence politics indirectly rather than pursuing direct voting rights—a position opposing women's suffrage. The main illustration shows a silhouetted woman on horseback with a rifle, accompanying what appears to be a soldier or hunter, captioned "She: I know I don't love you, and yet there's something about you I like." The cartoon satirizes the article's anti-suffrage argument by depicting a woman as an active, armed participant in outdoor activities—suggesting women are already capable and engaged beyond the domestic sphere, thereby undermining Blankenburg's case for indirect influence only.
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She: 1 KNow 1 pon’ Suffrage by Indirection RS. RUDOLPH BLANKEN- BURG, wife of the new Mayor of Philadelphia, is a suffragist, but she is rather didactic than militant. She believes that if women who have the desire will study economic and political questions, their — influence would not wait upon formal votes. She is right. Women have alway been considered the best teachers, and it would be easy to underestimate the extent to which our school teachers are now indirectly voting as they shape the minds and bodies of the boys and the girls of the oncoming generation. Men never get too old to go to school to women. Few men of this generation, moreover, are too wise in political and economic ters to go to school to somebody. Why not women? T LOVE YOU, AND YET THERE'S SOMETHING The pride of America is the wealth- getting business man who is so tired when night comes that a musical com- edy is the only thing that will keep his eyes open. Neither day nor night can he sce beyond the radius of his own little circle of profit and loss. Women as a class live in a more natural and a more healthy way. Their world, even though circum- scribed, is more cosmic, giving them a wider vision and a keener insight into human verities. The difficulty with the average suf- fragette is that she is so busy getting this thing called the vote that she hasn’t time to form the least idea of what she would do with it if she had it. It affects her much the same as getting dollars affects the business man, making her incompetent for any- thing else. ABOUT YOU P LIKE Y is what the rich pay the poor | for envy. AS HE THOUGHT IT WAS comicbooks.com