Poetry Archives

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 assertion 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.