33.


A Glance Into the Future


The present public prosperity of the ex-suffragettes is chiefly due to
the fact that the old-time male politicians, being naturally very
stupid, mistake them for spokesmen for the whole body of women,
and so show them politeness. But soon or late--and probably
disconcertingly soon--the great mass of sensible and agnostic
women will turn upon them and depose them, and thereafter the
woman vote will be no longer at the disposal of bogus Great
Thinkers and messiahs. If the suffragettes continue to fill the
newspapers with nonsense, once that change has been effected, it
will be only as a minority sect of tolerated idiots, like the
Swedenborgians, Christian Scientists, Seventh Day Adventists and
other such fanatics of today. This was the history of the extension
of the suffrage in all of the American states that made it before
the national enfranchisement of women and it will be repeated
in the nation at large, and in Great Britain and on the Continent.
Women are not taken in by quackery as readily as men are; the
hardness of their shell of logic makes it difficult to penetrate to their
emotions. For one woman who testifies publicly that she has been
cured of cancer by some swindling patent medicine, there are at
least twenty masculine witnesses. Even such frauds as the favourite