A New York paper sagely remarks, “Under any system we shall not get a government of cherubs until we become cherubs ourselves.” That’s too long ahead. Men have always told women they were angels, so why not begin with woman suffrage as the first step?
“All the blessed creatures have to do,” said Representative Adamson, of Georgia, in his speech, “is to intimate in a gentle way, in their charming tones and pleasing manner to the lords of creation that they wish to have the privilege of voting.” How much that reminds one of Heflin, of Alabama—it’s so different!
“Women of New Jersey,” said ex-Assemblyman Matthews at the legislative hearing, “if you want to improve the conditions of public life, I beg you to keep on being women.” As they felt that conditions very much needed improving, and for various other reasons, they adopted a resolution to keep on being women.
For the fourth year in succession a woman has won the prize of $1,250 offered by an English publishing house for the best first novel. It is bad enough that there are a million more women than men over there, without having them add to the offense by such performances as this. They’ll never get the vote.
The president of the Pennsylvania Anti-Suffrage Society asks its members to “write to all the United States Senators, except those from the suffrage States, and tell them that the great, silent majority of women do not want the vote.” She was very kind to omit those gentlemen—they might laugh themselves to death.