Part 9

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Why is it that as soon as women get the suffrage in any State they are called upon to clean up the cities and purify politics? As men have always been held to be so much better qualified to vote than women, the latter ought to find every city a Spotless Town and the political atmosphere too rarefied to breathe in safety.

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The college girls all marry, according to recent statistics. They have to pass laws in many States to prevent school teachers from marrying. You can hardly keep a trained nurse single until her patient gets well. Stenographers go like hot cakes. The only girls that seem to have trouble in getting married are the old fashioned, womanly kind that do the sweetly domestic acts in the seclusion of the home.

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At the big dinner given in New York for the Men and Religion Forward Movement the dean of Yale Theological School said: “The Church must have men because men are militant.” Go to: isn’t it militancy that is ruining the Women and Suffrage Forward Movement?

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Ex-President Eliot, of Harvard, anti-suffragist, says, “Women are better adapted to work for the human beings of the future than men are.” Yes, and as there wouldn’t be any human beings of the future if it were not for women it almost seems as if they were of enough importance to have a vote.

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Why should the advocates of woman suffrage be criticised for trying to defeat members of Congress who are opposed to it when all of the parties do their best to prevent the election of their opponents? If the suffragists did not try to keep their enemies out of Congress they wouldn’t have political sense enough to vote.

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The corporation counsel of the District of Columbia has ruled that the new eight-hour law for women applies to those who do mechanical work in a newspaper office, but not to those who do brain work. He probably considers that those big, forty-page papers are a greater strain on hands than brains, and it sure does seem like that when you try to read them.

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“As for me, I defy you women. Come and meet me on the stump.” Such were the brave words of a New York alderman, and from that moment Ajax defying the lightning was simply not in it.

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All over the country ministers are giving sermons in favor of woman suffrage. Why don’t the “antis” get some of them to preach against it? Surely a few can be found who would dare to do it!

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Mrs. John Martin, opposed to a vote because it will turn women from matrimony, says that “soon the only women to marry will be the infirm and the idiotic.” The anti-suffragists will continue to be eligible, won’t they?

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Ex-President Eliot has come to the front again to declare that there wasn’t any Garden of Eden or Adam or Eve. All right. Then Eve didn’t eat the apple and bring sin into the world; therefore that objection to giving the ballot to the women of the United States is null and void.

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Just at the psychical moment when the Alienist and Neurologist, a St. Louis publication, devoted several pages to prove that the “cave man is the type women adore” and that “the bigger the brute, the more a woman clings to him,” a New York wife took a 200-pound husband by the ear and led him to the police station, and one the same size in Chicago had his wife arrested for cruel and inhuman treatment. It looks as if the women themselves were trying the role of the cave man.

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Have a Father’s Day, by all means, if any of them feel slighted; but wouldn’t a “night” be more appropriate?

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They say that a stenographer is the only woman to whom a man can dictate these days. Is that the reason so many men marry their stenographers?

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The New York suffragists are hunting for some means of moving Senators Root and O’Gorman to favor their amendment. They might try an earthquake.