VALE, WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 32, 13 October 1911, Page 9

VALE, WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

It is over —for a term. The eminent solon-s of New York State, with caveman mentality aad Bathhouse John, instincts, have signifk-d officially that their mothers, wives and .sisters are incapable of the difference between tweedledum and tAveedledee in matters political. and i?o —Imprimis! iS'iadeS of ,Cor.cord. Lexington, and the .Boston Tea Party, but enough is sometimes too much ! The legislature has. however, shown rare discretion. a;:d judgment, to 'my mi nd. And the fourteen noble statesmen who ducked into a hole- and pulled the hole in aft-rr them when the vote was called —Saluta! A new issue of Carnegie mcdals_ is be in gstruck off for them by the New York Central Railroad. They gave the Bi-ll its coup do grace. .Someone insisted that they ought to have had their brains taken out and buttered and fed to a dog for a new year's gift, but I never did believe in cruelty to animals. Those profound descendants of Ly-ci-irgus and Aristides, know their business. If women had the power we would have the initiative, refercndifm, and recall inside of two .years, and these gallant statesmen would be gently but firmly retired to political oblivion. New York is in the same general category as. TJ.11.? si a. and Turkey, however, and so there is no need at alii to fco] lonesome. Plenty of good company is still available. "Woman suffrage will be universal in the central and far west before the idea ever permeates or.r pachydermatous hides that our vroinen-lojj-i;- are human beings, just as deeply interested ru the solution of the problems under which they are eompe-llpd to struggle as arc we Lords of Creation ><may the incense never cease burning). By all the laws ai Het-erc and autosuggestion, men should be kings in the realm of brain. (Heaven knows that they have been told bo' times beyond computation.)—.By Edwin F. Bowers, in Chicago "Socialist."