The ancient question, “Could women voters work out their road tax?” has been answered by two in Iowa. They did worse, for they won two out of three prizes offered by the county for work on highways. It was all right for them to do the work but very wrong for them to win the prizes.
“Women never could serve on the police force,” an anti-suffragist rushes into print to declare. “Could frail woman withstand, year in and year out, the severe climatic changes constantly occurring?” Well, several million of her do, as they start out each morning to earn their daily bread.
The “antis” are dreadfully vexed at the suffragists because of their reported attempts to convert the women public-school teachers, the women in the government departments, the women wage-earners and women in divers other capacities. Putting it mildly they are like the schoolboy who wrote, “To sum up Daniel Webster’s character—it is one which I do not approve!”
Some awful things are promised in the season’s styles for man. They are to be more expensive, which will require him to owe his tailor more than ever. Evening trousers are to be very loose so that he can perpetrate the tango and turkey trot without accident. For the rest of the day the clothes are to be very tight so as to show the natural form, and this is where the public will start a suffragette movement.
Do not criticise Mr. Bryan because he said nothing new in regard to woman suffrage. Everything that could be said was said long ago but until recently the political ears were very deaf and very long.