The anti-suffragists opened their campaign at Sherry’s, in New York, the other day; but this does not necessarily imply that they used a corkscrew.
In many places the liquor sellers are complaining that the moving-picture shows, where a man can take his wife and children for five or ten cents, are ruining their business. Anything that keeps a man with his family is an enemy to the saloon.
The latest census report shows that there are about thirty thousand more divorced women than men in the United States. This seems to indicate that the men get back into the married state as quickly as possible but the women know when they have had enough.
The wild outcry of the anti-suffragists against “feminism” indicates that they prefer masculinism for women. Let them have it, for luckily they are not of enough importance for all womankind to be judged by what they do and say, as is the case with the suffragists.
The California papers congratulate the State that, “whereas it was in a ferment of suffrage meetings two years ago, now there is not the slightest turmoil but all is peace.” This should be a lesson to other States where the turmoil is getting worse every day and there is just about as much peace in sight as there is in Europe.