“Tariff reform, fiscal policies, large international relations are foreign to the consciousness of the average woman,” says Mrs. Dodge, president of the anti-suffragists. Maybe so, but it seems as if she might have sense enough to put a mark on a ballot opposite an eagle, a star or a moose’s head.
A man was excused from serving as juror in a murder trial in New York lately because his wife wouldn’t allow him to convict any one of murder. Out in Oregon a juror was challenged the other day because his wife had already been accepted and it would be impossible for him to give an unbiased opinion. What makes people think that under equal suffrage wives would all vote as their husbands do?
The women voters of Arizona have started in on so many reforms that the men can almost feel their wings sprouting.
The president of the New York State “antis” says, “Suffrage is going, not coming.” Well, it sure does seem to be going some these days.
It seems as if, when not only State courts but the United States government itself forbids the use of aigrettes, women would give up trying to wear them; but the Injun in ‘em dies hard.