Leaders of the anti-suffragists insist that women shall not be enfranchised against their protest, but when all the big organizations of women in the country are asking for it, who is making the protest? What is the matter with that ninety per cent. the antis claim to represent that they can’t speak up? Ninety per cent. can make a great deal more noise than ten.
President Wilson said the last session of Congress accomplished so much simply by “sawing wood.” He was careful not to add, “and saying nothing.”
John Redmond and his followers want home rule for Ireland but they don’t intend that those who rule the home shall have any part in it.
The entire State of Kansas is quarantined because of the foot-and-mouth disease. This is the strongest argument against woman suffrage that the “antis” have been able to find for a long time.
“Persons who try to stop the woman suffrage movement,” said a Chicago elections commissioner, “are in the position of a man throwing himself in front of a locomotive.” Well, they always expect that the bosses who run the political machines will apply the brake.