“Do women realize,” says a writer in an anti-suffrage paper, “that as they become self-supporting they deprive men of the right to support them?” Don’t worry; men can always find women who are willing to be supported—some of them find too many.
The National Women’s Trade Unions’ League and its various State auxiliaries and all kinds of working women’s organizations are continually passing resolutions for woman suffrage. On the other hand, Dr. Katharine Bement Davis, superintendent of the Bedford Reformatory for Women, says that her charges, almost to a woman, are opposed to it. If a person is to be judged by the company she keeps, one hardly feels like getting acquainted with the members of the Anti-Suffrage Association.
It’s all right for the Kansas Legislature to have a woman sergeant-at-arms, but it seems that her name ought not to be “Effie.” By the way what does the sergeant have to do with her arms.
In the States where women can vote they have not exactly turned their swords into plowshares but they have transformed their suffrage societies into civic clubs, and instead of their begging men to give them votes, the men are begging women for the votes they already hold in their lily-white hands.
The Legislature of Alaska enfranchised women and then enacted a statute declaring that “all laws which impose or recognize civil disability on a wife that do not exist as to the husband are hereby repealed.” As the “antis” are fond of saying, “Women must accept the suffrage at a terrible sacrifice of the privileges they have enjoyed.”