Captain Amundson, the antarctic discoverer, who comes from Norway where women vote, says of the English suffragettes: “They are quite right, and I’d like to help them in their fight for freedom.” The captain had better confine himself to easy jobs like finding the South Pole.
The anti-suffrage headquarters in Trenton, N. J., have a big placard in the window, asking, “Why the Increase in Juvenile Crime in Denver?” Because, according to the chief of police, “juvenile crime in Denver has decreased nearly two hundred per cent. in the last ten years”—that’s why. It is amazing how the anti-suffragists manage to acquire so much misinformation.
In Colonel Roosevelt’s latest pronunciamento on the question of suffrage, he says that he “always believed it exactly as much the right of women as men, but he only favored it ‘tepidly’ until his association with such women as Jane Addams,” etc. Is the colonel quite sure that he was not slightly influenced by those 2,000,000 women out West with the vote already in their hands?
At the recent suffrage debate in Congress a great deal was said about women “trailing their skirts in the mire of politics” by some of the befo’-the-wah members. Evidently the old gentlemen hadn’t learned that trailing skirts went out of fashion years ago and now the men can’t make the political mud deep enough to touch the hem of the up-to-date dresses.
The “antis” appeal to the legislators to “listen to logic instead of the dropping of ballots.” Impossible! Compared with the thud of those ballots all other noises sound like utter silence.