Part 8

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“Our only problem now,” says the national anti-suffrage president, “is, Can we make the negative majority large enough to keep the voters from having to vote on it again for twenty-five years?” No use to waste any time and money figuring on that problem. The answer is, It can’t be done.

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One of the New York Supreme Court justices, in adjourning a case against a woman recently, said, “My sex has been deceiving the other sex since the day of Adam.” There has always been a suspicion that in that little transaction in the Garden of Eden it was Adam himself who was deceived. Since then possibly the men have been trying to get even, but it looks nowadays as if the women were beginning to claim their share from the tree of knowledge, and deceiving them was not quite so easy.

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The only “perfect woman” has been found at Cornell University. To find perfect ladies visit a bargain counter.

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A noted astrologer has seen in the stars victories for woman suffrage in many States. The “antis” see stars every time there is a new victory; but when they pick themselves up they never make any forecast of the future.

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Cuban women are organizing for the suffrage and a flourishing society already exists in Hawaii. Truly the anti-suffragists are kept so busy these days trying to stem the tide they are obliged to forget that a woman’s place is at home.

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The candidates on the primary-election tickets in New York all had numbers opposite their names, so that voters who couldn’t read or remember carried the numbers of their choice into the polling booth and copied them on the ballot. It almost seems as if women might have intelligence enough to perform a feat like that.

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A tablet has been discovered in Babylonia, recording that the first world was created by a woman, and the male gods, growing tired of it, wiped it out by a flood and created another. There is a nice thing about this record—it has no account of Eve’s eating the apple and bringing sin into the new creation. This removes one charge against woman and puts it up to man to account for the large amount of wickedness that has crept into his world.

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That English anti-suffrage mother had no right to feel insulted when her “militant” daughter sent her a post-card with the one word “doormat” written on it. Wasn’t it the English writer, Dinah Mulock, who said women ought to be satisfied to be doormats in their husband’s home?

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There seems to be some mild excitement over the question whether a woman should be allowed to write “Mrs.” before her name when she is really “Miss.” The chief effect would be on the men, who are much more chesty before the unmarried women that believe them to be heroes than before the married, who know they are not.

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A Philadelphia clergyman says that “women’s clubs are the instruments of the devil.” With several million women enrolled in them, His Satanic Majesty should have a large working force; but it’s odd that every one of them seems to be trying to improve something or somebody. Maybe the minister meant to say men’s clubs.

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The Business Women’s League of Nashville, with three hundred members, has united with the Equal Suffrage League to move on the Legislature. Apparently they have never heard from the lady “antis” what a hindrance the ballot will be to the working woman but it is not yet too late for the “antis” to save her from “impending doom,” in the classic language of their president.

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The anti-suffrage women are boasting of the cooperation they receive from men. Sure—they are playing the game for the men!

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Secretary Lane, of the Interior Department, says there will be no Indian man without the suffrage when he goes out of office. The surprising thing is that previous administrations have allowed a male of any sort to escape having it thrust upon him.

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The wizard of Hoboken announces that the zodiacal sign of Sagittarius signifies that woman suffrage will be successful. Yes, all signs point that way; but is there anything in the zodiac to indicate when?