I

In Time of War

    Help us.  Your country needs you;
      Show that you love her,
    Give her your men to fight,
      Ay, even to fall;
    The fair, free land of your birth,
      Set nothing above her,
    Not husband nor son,
      She must come first of all.

II

In Time of Peace

    What’s this?  You’ve wed an alien,
      Yet you ask for legislation
    To guard your nationality? 
      We’re shocked at your 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.