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Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

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demand.

A woman when she marries

Takes her husband's name and nation:

She should love her husband only.

What's a woman's native land?


"Oh, That 'Twere Possible!"

With apologies to Lord Tennyson.


("The grant of suffrage to women is repugnant to instincts that strike their roots deep in the order of nature. It runs counter to human reason, it flouts the teachings of experience and the admonitions of common sense."—N.Y. Times, Feb. 7, 1915.)

Oh, that 'twere possible

After those words inane

For me to read The Times

Ever again!

When I was wont to read it

In the early morning hours,

In a mood 'twixt wrath and mirth,

I exclaimed: "Alas, Ye Powers,

These ideas are fainter, quainter

Than anything on earth!"

A paper's laid before me.

Not thou, not like to thee.

Dear me, if it were possible

The Times should ever see

How very far the times have moved

(Spelt with a little "t").


The Times Editorials

Lovely Antiques, breathing in every line

The perfume of an age long passed away,

Wafting us back to 1829,

Museum pieces of a by-gone day,

You should not languish in the public press

Where modern thought might reach and do you harm,

And vulgar youth insult your hoariness,

Missing the flavor of your old world charm;

You should be locked, where rust cannot corrode

In some old rosewood cabinet, dimmed by age,

With silver-lustre, tortoise shell and Spode;

And all would cry, who read your yellowing page:

"Yes, that's the sort of thing that men believed

Before the First Reform Bill was conceived!"


CAMPAIGN MATERIAL

(For Both Sides)

Our Own Twelve Anti-suffragist Reasons


1. Because no woman will leave her domestic duties to vote.

2. Because no woman who may vote will attend to her domestic duties.

3. Because it will make dissension between husband and wife.

4. Because every woman will vote as her husband tells her to.

5. Because bad women will corrupt politics.

6. Because bad politics will corrupt women.

7. Because women have no power of organization.

8. Because women will form a solid party and outvote men.

9. Because men and women are so different that they must stick to different duties.

10. Because men and women are so much alike that men, with one vote each, can represent their own views and ours too.

11. Because women cannot use force.

12. Because the militants did use force.


Why We Oppose Pockets for Women


1. Because pockets are not a natural right.

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

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