2. Because the great majority of women do not want pockets. If they did they would have them.
3. Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used them.
4. Because women are required to carry enough things as it is, without the additional burden of pockets.
5. Because it would make dissension between husband and wife as to whose pockets were to be filled.
6. Because it would destroy man"s chivalry toward woman, if he did not have to carry all her things in his pockets.
7. Because men are men, and women are women. We must not fly in the face of nature.
8. Because pockets have been used by men to carry tobacco, pipes, whiskey flasks, chewing gum and compromising letters. We see no reason to suppose that women would use them more wisely.
Fashion Notes: Past and Present
1880--Anti-suffrage arguments are being worn long, calm and flowing this year, with the dominant note that of woman"s intellectual inferiority.
1890--Violence is very evident in this season"s modes, and our more conservative thinkers are saying that woman suffrage threatens the home, the Church and the Republic.
1900--A complete change of style has taken place. Everything is being worn _a l"aristocrate_, with the repeated a.s.sertion that too many people are voting already.
1915--The best line of goods shown by the leading anti-suffrage houses this spring is the statement that woman suffrage is the same thing as free love. The effect is extremely piquant and surprising.
Why We Oppose Women Travelling in Railway Trains
1. Because travelling in trains is not a natural right.
2. Because our great-grandmothers never asked to travel in trains.
3. Because woman"s place is the home, not the train.
4. Because it is unnecessary; there is no point reached by a train that cannot be reached on foot.
5. Because it will double the work of conductors, engineers and brakemen who are already overburdened.
6. Because men smoke and play cards in trains. Is there any reason to believe that women will behave better?
Why We Oppose Schools for Children
(_By the Children"s Anti-School League_.)
1. Because education is a burden, not a right.
2. Because not one-tenth of one per cent. of the children of this country have demanded education.
3. Because if we are educated we should have to behave as if we were and we don"t want to.
4. Because it is essentially against the nature of a child to be educated.
5. Because we can"t see that it has done so much for grown-ups, and there is no reason for thinking it will make children perfect.
6. Because the time of children is already sufficiently occupied without going to school.
7. Because it would make dissension between parent and child. Imagine the home life of a parent who turned out to be more ignorant than his (or her) child?
8. Because we believe in the indirect education of the theatre, the baseball field and the moving picture. We believe that schools would in a great measure deprive us of this.
9. Because our parents went to school. They love us, they take care of us, they tell us what to do. We are content that they should be educated for us.
But Then Who Cares for Figures
An argument sometimes used against paying women as highly as men for the same work is that women are only temporarily in industry.
Forty-four per cent of the women teachers in the public schools of New York have been more than ten years in the service, while only twenty-six per cent of the men teachers have served as long.
The Bundesrath of Germany has decided to furnish medical and financial a.s.sistance to women at the time of childbirth, in order "to alleviate the anxiety of husbands at the front."
How strange this would sound: "The Bundesrath has decided to furnish medical a.s.sistance to the wounded at the front, in order to alleviate the anxiety of wives and mothers at home."
When a benefit is suggested for men, the question asked is: "Will it benefit men?"
When a benefit is suggested for women, the question is: "Will it benefit men?"
Why We Oppose Votes for Men
1. Because man"s place is the armory.