Part 12

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It cost $11.40 a piece to register voters in Greater New York for the spring election. Will those who are clamoring for a referendum of the suffrage question to women themselves at a special election please state who will foot the bill?

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Dr. Mary Walker is greatly disgusted with the suffragists for making so much fuss to obtain a right which is already guaranteed to them under the Constitution. If she really believes this let her try to cast a vote at the next election. There is always room in jail for one more.

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The Anti-Suffrage Association has issued “The Woman’s Creed,” which says, “I believe in making every effort to protect the good name of our American men from the attacks of the suffragists.” Bless their soft, little hearts! One would think from their literator that the suffragists hadn’t any men of their own that they would fight to the last ditch for if necessary. What the “antis” should do is to protect men from the blandishments of the suffragists after their votes.

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As man has only fourteen pockets in his clothes the tailors are now putting in another, a secret one, where he can hide his money from his wife. As it is only the size of a watch pocket she won’t grudge him the contents; besides she will know where it is located almost as soon as he does himself.

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An “inspired” article says that there are signs of a revolt among the wives in nearly all the royal families of Europe and that “it is because the ideas of Mrs. Pankhurst have permeated the circles of royalty.” If Mrs. Pankhurst had accomplished no more than this, she would deserve all the honors her followers claim for her.

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The president of a New York club said in her address to the City Federation the other day, “You neglect culture and buzz around too much; you should set aside ten minutes every day to meditate on something refining and ennobling.” Like that speech, for instance; but isn’t ten minutes a day an awful lot of time to spend on culture?

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The 140,000 members of the Woman Suffrage Party in New York City are balloting for their officers in the different districts. The Anti-Suffrage State Society announces that it is increasing at the rate of one thousand a month. This proves that in one hundred and forty months it will catch up with the city party, provided the latter doesn’t add any new members.

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The most important thing in regard to the candidacy of that woman from Kansas who is running for Congress is that it shows there is no constitutional barrier to women members of Congress. All they have to do is to get elected.

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The anti-feminists have always related with great joy that it is the female mosquito which does the biting, but scientists have now learned that the reason the male of the species refrains is because he has nothing to bite with.

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At the next registration in Montana after women were enfranchised, there was a sprinting match to see who would be enrolled first; but sad to relate it was won by the two leaders of the anti-suffrage movement.

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A fashion periodical offers a large salary to a young man who understands the entire subject of a woman’s clothes and can edit a woman’s magazine. As has been often remarked, women are invading men’s domain and crowding them out of their legitimate work!

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The first Anti-Suffrage Association in the United States or any other country was organized in Massachusetts in 1884. It has labored diligently ever since with the excellent result that both houses of the Legislature have voted by immense majorities to submit the question to the electors. If the “antis” will do their level best, it may pull through at the polls.

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Dr. Hugh Cabot, of Puritan Boston, says that “if women want men to reform, they must cease to tempt them.” Maybe so, the poor things! but how did they ever happen to be called “the stronger sex”?

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The Guidon Anti-Suffrage Club of New York is devoting itself to a study of the Bible. Nobody needs the consolations of religion quite so much just now as the anti-suffragists.