Just as the Anti-Suffrage Association issued its bulletin announcing that there was no favorable movement in the South, the Georgia Federation of Labor strongly indorsed the suffragists and the Atlanta Constitution declared editorially, “Success seems about to crown their efforts.” The antis are playing in hard luck; no sooner do they get their type all nicely set up than the other side does something or other that knocks it into “pi.”
One of those gifted male lecturers who know everything says, “We have new models of automobiles every year; we should work out new models of the antiquated family machine.” Go ahead; women have no objection as long as they are permitted to sit at the steering wheel.
“Marse Henry” Watterson says he has found only three classes of women who want the suffrage: “Those who wish to exploit their own interests, those who are soured on life and the brainless sheep who think it is fashionable.” Maybe it is like that in Kentucky, but the men in some States have found several other kinds.
The “bachelor tax” which the Montana legislators want to impose varies from $2.50 to $100 per annum, but the majority think $5 would be about right. It seems like cruelty to animals to put on any tax at all when there are more than twice as many men as women over twenty-one years old in the State and those across the border are in just as bad a fix.
Emile Deschamps tells us in his new book that the American woman cannot keep her husband’s love because she does not return it. But if she returned it of course she couldn’t keep it. Funny how many things these foreigners find out about American women never discovered by American men, who seem to be well enough satisfied not to go wife hunting in any other country.