MAKING FUN OF THE SUFFRAGE.
Poking fun at the cause of woman suffrage has no novelty. Back in 1850 (says an American paper) a clergyman thought it smart to announce a suffrage meeting by saying: "To-night, at the Town Hall, a hen will attempt to crow." Yet even in ttyose days the favouring current had set in. Here is a bit showing how Wendell Phillips felt:— ,
When Phillips met Theodore Parker after returning from the Women's Rights Convention the clergyman said to him:
"Wendell, why do you make a fool of yourself?"
"Theodore,'? was the reply, "this is the greatest question of the ages; you ought to understand it."
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 565, 1 December 1915, Page 4
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