“Love is a disease,” says a Chicago doctor, “called anaphylaxis—lack of resistance.” This is merely a trick of the profession to increase the number of their patients, but the Chicago girls dare them to try to cure it.
A booth was built in New York City in a district where only three men voted, yet members of the Legislature object to giving suffrage to women because it would require more voting booths. Who helps to pay for those the men use?
The anti-suffragists have been so busy during the campaign running political headquarters and making speeches for the candidates they haven’t had a minute to tell the suffragists that a woman’s place is at home and that women are wholly unfitted for politics. It will be somewhat embarrassing for them to resume business at the old stand and hear the suffragists jeer.
When United States Senator Burton, of Ohio, landed from a trip to Europe not long ago and was asked the inevitable question about woman suffrage, he said, “I do not care even to express an opinion on such a subordinate issue.” Now he says that of course he is going to vote for it in his State. It is taking a mean advantage for reporters to corral a great statesman on the dock before he finds out what has happened in his absence.
The Rothchilds are said to have given $15,000 to the British Anti-Suffrage Association. The vote in the hands of women would prove a strong factor in preventing the wars of the future.