AN UNREASONABLE TEST
An Unreasonable Test By MARIE JENNEY HOWE MOST people unconsciously apply to the subject of woman suffrage all known tests of temperance, morality, political purity and economic reform. They...
...In the eyes of these unreasonables, anything less than revolution would be failure, while at the same time they never cease to brand as unwomanly every revolutionary thought or act...
...We ask them to perform this highly specialized service without the apprenticeship of practical politics and the training which comes from office holding...
...They insist that the women who are to perform this miracle must at the same time conform to cherished traditions of modesty and self-effacement...
...They must refuse office and remain quietly in i-he background, without the incentive of public approbation or reward...
...They demand that in all these directions women of one state must achieve in a dozen years what the men of America have not achieved in all our history...
...They make this demand with no allowance for the shifting population of untrained women pouring in from unenfranchised states...
Vol. 2 • January 1910 • No. 2
