Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
Miss Hauser, the new chairman, presided over the press conference,
which was opened with a paper by Miss Jane Campbell, a veteran
suffragist, president of the Philadelphia County Suffrage Club of 600
members, on The Unbiased Editor, which bristled with the humorous
sarcasm in which she was unsurpassed. She said in the course of it:
"As the result of close observation I may state that the calm,
judicial mind of the unbiased editor is never more in evidence than
when he bends his energies to a consideration of the woman
question--that is, the woman question in reference to politics. Then
he is on sure ground and he always is actuated by a desire to serve
the best interests of women. Does it come under his ken that a woman
has the temerity to suggest even in faint tones the advisability and
feasibility, the common sense and justice of being allowed to cast a
ballot, then the opportunity of the unbiased editor has come and the
rash claimant is admonished in fatherly, protecting tones to 'Remember
that only in the Home'--he always spells home with a capital in this
connection--'should a woman be in evidence.' He almost weeps when he
pictures the dire consequences that would inevitably result should
women enter the uncleanly pool of politics. Chivalry would become
extinct--chivalry being the guiding principle, according to the
unbiased editor, on which men act--and then would tired men no longer
give up their seats in trolley cars to masculine women and no longer
would they accord equal pay for equal work, as they chivalrously do
now!"
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