2. Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise than by fighting about it.
3. Because if men should adopt peaceable methods women will no longer look up to them.
4. Because men will lose their charm if they step out of their natural sphere and interest themselves in other matters than feats of arms, uniforms and drums.
5. Because men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them peculiarly unfit for the task of government.
The Logic of the Law
In 1875 the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in denying the pet.i.tion of women to practise before it said:
"It would be shocking to man"s reverence for womanhood and faith in woman ... that woman should be permitted to mix professionally in all the nastiness which finds its way into courts of justice."
It then names thirteen subjects as unfit for the attention of women--three of them are crimes committed against women.
Consistency
("Vile insults, lewd talk and brutal conduct were used by the indicted men to frighten respectable women who went to the polls in Terre Haute at the last election, a.s.serted District Attorney Dailey."--_Press Dispatch_.)
Are the polls unfit for decent women?
No, sir, they are perfectly orderly.
Tut, tut! Go there at once and swear and be brutal, or what will become of our anti-suffrage argument?
Sometimes We"re Ivy, and Sometimes We"re Oak
Is it true that the English government is calling on women to do work abandoned by men?
Yes, it is true.
Is not woman"s place the home?
No, not when men need her services outside the home.
Will she never be told again that her place is the home?
Oh, yes, indeed.
When?
As soon as men want their jobs back again.
Do You Know
That in 1869 Miss Jex-Blake and four other women entered for a medical degree at the University of Edinburgh?
That the president of the College of Physicians refused to give the women the prizes they had won?
That the undergraduates insulted any professor who allowed women to compete for prizes?
That the women were stoned in the streets, and finally excluded from the medical school?
That in 1877 the British Medical a.s.sociation declared women ineligible for membership?
That in 1881 the International Medical Congress excluded women from all but its "social and ceremonial meetings"?
That the Obstetrical Society refused to allow a woman"s name to appear on the t.i.tle page of a pamphlet which she had written with her husband?
That according to a recent dispatch from London, many hospitals, since the outbreak of hostilities, have asked women to become resident physicians, and public authorities are daily endeavoring to obtain women as a.s.sistant medical officers and as school doctors?
Interviews With Celebrated Anti-Suffragists
"Woman"s place is in my home."--Appius Claudius.
"I have never felt the need of the ballot."--Cleopatra.
"Magna Charta merely fashionable fad of ye Barons."--King John.
"Boston Tea Party shows American colonists to be hysterical and utterly incapable of self-government."--George III.
"Know of no really good slaves who desire emanc.i.p.ation."--President of the United Slaveholders" Protective a.s.sociation.
Another of Those Curious Coincidences