The big council of the Chippewas in Wisconsin recently declared for woman suffrage. The Indians know what it is to be without a vote; they are not like the chesty white men, who never did a thing to earn one and therefore don’t want to share it.
A New York paper said, after the recent primary elections, that “the people seemed inflexibly determined not to rule.” Before this statement is accepted give that half of the people a chance who have been trying to get it since 1848.
Miss Ida Tarbell says, “I don’t take much interest in magazines for women only, as I am incapable of differentiating women from the human race.” It is only when it comes to having the right of individual representation that Miss Tarbell would differentiate women from the rest of the human race.
At the anti-suffrage headquarters opened in Washington at the time of the parade they announced that during the first four days two thousand persons registered. Some of the suffrage mathematicians figured out that this would mean a registration of more than one person every minute for eight hours of every day—a manifest absurdity. It seems sometimes as if the sole object of the suffragists was to be disagreeable.
The Sir Almoth Wright who has recently written a book on woman suffrage which can’t be mentioned in good society is the same individual who last year put forth a treatise against taking a bath; but really he should have allowed an exception after reading his book.