The latest government report from New Zealand, where women have voted twenty-one years, shows that, while the population has doubled in thirty years, the number of men in prison has increased only from 631 to 853, and the number of women prisoners has decreased from 94 to 64. It seems from these figures that woman suffrage in New Zealand did not double the criminal vote and did not produce a reign of anarchy and crime. Perhaps it is only in the United States and in those of the States where it has never been tried that it will have this effect. Still the “antis” should bolster up their charge with a statistic or two.
The Keith and Proctor circuits forbid any burlesquing of the suffragists. That’s right, and the anti-suffragists give their own continuous vaudeville performances.
One little woman in the big Woolworth Building in New York manages the electrical apparatus for running twenty-eight elevators—and yet some people think a woman hasn’t nerve enough to drop a ballot in a box.
Gertrude Atherton says, “Women politicians will be just like men politicians—no better, no worse.” We knew, of course, that they couldn’t be any—well, we had hoped they might prove to be a little better.
“Young women,” said Representative Bowdle, of Cincinnati, in the suffrage debate, “will beware of this movement, which positively destroys all feminine charm and deters young men from marriage.” (Loud applause by the sixty-seven married members from the twelve States where women vote.)