“There is no reform legislation in any suffrage State which is not duplicated in those where women cannot vote,” says the “antis.” If that is so they will have to find some other excuse for beating the suffragists to the polls as soon as they get a chance.
The United States Senate has made an appropriation to erect a splendid memorial in Washington in recognition of the service rendered by women during the Civil War. By all means; and then don’t deny the franchise to women because they cannot serve their country in time of war.
The Women’s Political Association of Australia has called upon its national Parliament to protect the political rights of the women of that country, who become disfranchised the moment they take up a residence in any other part of the British empire, while men continue to vote. Here, too! Help for the women voters of twelve States, who, when they go to live in any of the other thirty-six, are reduced to the political level of the idiots, insane and criminal.
Shall women propose? Well, they have a good deal of nerve nowadays, but hardly enough to say to a man, “Please take me and support me for the rest of my life!” They must first be financially independent and then somehow they seem to lose interest in the matter.
When Utah’s electoral college met to cast the vote of the State for President and Vice-President, its members selected the one woman elector to carry the result to Washington. Those Western States are constantly giving just such examples as this of the way men lose respect for women when they can vote and hold office.