A woman office-holder who is getting a $4,500 salary says: “No, I am not a suffragist. Why should I want to vote? Men have always been mighty good to me.” Prosperity sometimes does affect people that way—makes them so nearsighted they can’t see what is happening to their neighbors.
There doesn’t seem to be any particular reason why four or five women should have been guests of honor at the annual banquet of the Police Lieutenants’ Benevolent Association, but they just sat up there and sang, “We’re here because we’re here.” And that isn’t the worst of it—they’re going to be everywhere else and the men who don’t like it will have to go to the edge of the earth and jump off.
The president of the New York Press Club in talking lately to a woman’s society on suffrage said: “Keep within the sex line. I and the men behind me will never forgive you if you step outside of that line!” Is it anything like the bread line? And how are women to know if they fail to toe the mark exactly? They are as far now from what was originally considered the “sex line” as if it was the equator and they were at the poles and yet the men seem to have forgiven them.
If the New York women keep on rolling up that big suffrage fund the men will feel it their bounden duty to take over the management of the amendment campaign.
A New Jersey woman has been obliged to get a divorce because her husband was so “inordinately fond of dress” that he spent all his earnings on his clothes. Vanity and foolishness know no sex.