Life, 1918-10-03 · page 11 of 34
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This page attacks the **National Woman's Party** and its picketing of the White House during World War I. Mrs. Ida Husted Harper defends the picketers against accusations they committed "horrid actions," claiming they've been unfairly portrayed. The bottom cartoon labeled "SAVING WOOL" satirizes women's wartime conservation efforts—showing exaggerated figures representing the tension between women's activism and domestic duty. The main photograph, "THE VOICE OF A FRIEND," depicts a dog, likely symbolizing loyalty or faithfulness during wartime division. The page reflects contemporary debate: while women's suffrage advocates picketed for voting rights, critics accused them of being unpatriotic during WWI. The satire suggests these female activists were simultaneously mocked for both their protest tactics and their wartime participation.
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Ladies! Ladies! T appears that the wild ladies who been picketing the White House, parading with bel- ligerent banners and raising the devil generally, are not endorsed by the regular advocates of woman suf- frage. According to Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, they have been guilty of horrid ctions. “In 1916 they changed their ime from the Congressional Union to ie National Woman's Party, thus con- ng the mind of the public.” As for the picketing, Mrs. Harper says, “1 ced not enter into that unfortunate ction further than to say that it con- tributed largely to the defeat of the age amendment in Maine that utumn, and came very near losing it 1 the State of New York.” Mrs® Harper further declares that vhile the National Suffrage Associa tion was founded in 1869, the so-called National Woman's Party, that is re- ponsible for the high doings in Wash- ton, is less than five years old, and ginally cut loose from the main or- unization by clandestinely using the issociation’s letter-heads for a starter, nd that its leaders, Miss Alice Paul and Miss Lucy Burns, were in jail with Mrs. Pankhurst, and are, in effect, wicked It is a dreadful accusation Harper makes in a letter have siders. which Mrs. SAVING WOOL SOME OF US ARE MORE THOROUGH-GOING THAN OTHERS THE VOICE OF to Senator Thomas. Senator Reed from Missouri, when he heard it, sug- it will now be in order gested that to await an equally frank opinion of the ional American Woman's Suf- frage Association by the National Woman's Party.” It will thus be seen hy careful ob- servers of femininity in general that the woman suffrage movement in this country is taking a normal course, which means, basically, hair-pulling and other regular excitements, All this, of course, as every worhan knows, will help win the war. Thanks Due NEXT time we have a day of pub- lic thanksgiving special mention should be made of that popular favor- A FRIEND ite. the Crown Prince of Germany. We owe more than can be estimated to his persistent continuance in high command The Best Way to End the War S the war not going to be won until the hat-check people are put under overnment control? This is the great question now before us. Up to the present time we have worried along as best we could, getting what money there was out of the steel and kindred industries and the incomes of tired business men, But now that real cash has to be raised, why not strike at the heart of the proviem and put the hat- check plutocrats where they belong, by taxing them ninety or ninety-five per cent. of their profits? comicbooks.com