Almost the last words of Baroness von Suttner before she sailed for home were that there never would be peace here until the women had a vote. The men could have told her that as soon as she landed in the United States.
For many days before Easter, the dispatches said, the Cleveland suffragists trimmed hats to be sold for the “cause.” Go to! It would be utterly impossible for a woman to believe in suffrage and know how to trim a hat.
Kansas women say that they have long been accustomed to masculine chivalry, as they have had the municipal vote for a quarter of a century; but since they got the full suffrage they are so overwhelmed with attentions from the men that they can hardly resist a political flirtation.
Strange, isn’t it, how Government offices, public schools and the rest penalize matrimony, and then when women ask for the suffrage the opponents shriek aloud that it will destroy the desire for marriage? Doesn’t it ever occur to them that the loss of all these business opportunities might have this effect? Husbands are nice, but oh, you salary!
Beatrice Harraden learned at a recent legislative hearing in Westminster that “the women impressed the statesmen but the statesmen did not in the least impress the women.” We have always seen this in our country but we never let the “statesmen” know it.