lly devoid of sense. A normal
woman, indeed, no more believes in democracy in the nation than she
believes in democracy at her own fireside; she knows that there must
be a class to order and a class to obey, and that the two can never
coalesce. Nor is she, susceptible to the stock sentimentalities upon
which the whole democratic process is based. This was shown very
dramatically in them United States at the national election of 1920,
in which the late Woodrow Wilson was brought down to colossal and
ignominious defeat--The first general election in which all American
women could vote. All the sentimentality of the situation was on the
side of Wilson, and yet fully three-fourths of the newly-enfranchised
women voters voted against him. He is, despite his talents for
deception, a poor popular psychologist, and so he made an inept effort
to fetch the girls by tear-squeezing: every connoisseur will remember
his bathos about breaking the heart of the world. Well, very few women
believe in broken hearts, and the cause is not far to seek: practically
every woman above the age of twenty-five has a broken heart. That is
to say, she has been vastly disappointed, either by failing to nab some
pretty fellow that her heart was set on, or, worse, by actually nabbing
him, and then discovering him to be a bounder or an imbecile, or both.
Thus walking the world with broken hearts, women know that the injury is
not serious. When he pulled out the Vox angelica stop and began sobbing
and snuffling and blowing his nose tragically, the learned doctor simply
drove all the women voters into the arms of the Hon. Warren Gamaliel
Harding, who was too stupid to invent any issues at all, but simply took
negative advantage of the distrust aroused by his opponent.

Once the women of Christendom become at ease in the use of the ballot,
and get rid of the preposterous harridans who got it for them and
who now seek to tell them what to do with it, they will proceed to
a scotching of many of the sentimentalities which currently corrupt
politics. For one thing, I believe that they will initiate measures
against democracy--the worst evil of the present-day world. When they
come to the matter, they will certainly not ordain the extension of the
suffrage to children, criminals and the insane in brief, to those ever
more inflammable and knavish than the male hinds who have enjoyed it for
so long; they will try to bring about its restriction, bit by bit, to
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