Life, 1913-10-16 · page 8 of 44
Life — October 16, 1913 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains a political cartoon titled **"The Widow's Mite"** alongside text debating women's suffrage. The cartoon depicts a hand dropping a ballot into a ballot box, symbolizing voting rights. The accompanying article, **"True Democracy,"** argues against women's suffrage. It claims women lack the "peculiar experience and knowledge" for voting and that their exclusion wouldn't harm governance. The text then counters this position, arguing that women's exclusion from voting actually weakens democracy and that women possess essential wisdom needed for solving public problems. The page reflects the intense 1913 suffrage debate in America, with the cartoon and dueling arguments presenting both anti-suffrage and pro-suffrage perspectives.
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644 4 VOL. 62 OCT. 16, 1913 No. 1616 ] “While there ts Life there's Hope"’ | Published by | \ PUBLISHING COMPANY SA Minter, «Sey, and Treas. New ,York 3c, | Breams tire J. A. Mircuent, Pres't. 17 West Thirty-first Street, English Offic Bld Cannon + Londén, He WING to Mr.. Martin’s absence in Europe, readers of Lire will be deprived of his editorials during the text few issues. : Life’s Fresh. Air Fund Inclusive of 1912. Live's Fars Air Fuxo has been in -e-ration twenty-six years. In that Jime it has expended "$139,304.44. anth has given @ fortnight in the country to 34.748 poor city children. i The Fund is supported entirely by bequests and tyuntary contributions, which are ac- Anowledged in this column, Previously acknowledged MM. H. PF. HL A. Tuckerman 5:90 5-90 $6,756.13 True Democracy SSENTIAL justice and broad in- telligence under popular govern- meht rest on»proportionate represen- tation of every class. Each has its peculiar rights to defend. and its “THE WIDOW’S MIGHT” FUSIONS peculiar experience and knowledge to contribute. If half the voters were disfranchised, but the proportion of classes maintained, by dropping from the voting list all names from A to U or N to Z, the character of govern- ment would be as before. But if one class were disfranchised its rights would be endangered and its contri- bution to the common work lost. And the greater the difference of that class from the ‘rest, the more serious the loss and the greater the danger, To say, then, that women differ from then, or that the woman's sphere is distinct from the man's, is ‘fo give the one essential reason for womap suf- frage. Men cannot rightly defend women's rights and supply women’s heeds, because they only partially tinderstand them, and their legislation about women curiously combines pam- pering with repression. Men cannot contribute woman's wisdom to the solu- jtion of public problems, for they do ot possess it. And of their legislation ithout woman's aid, much is folly and | nore a mere one-eyed wisdom, comicbooks.com