The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-10

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land have got up in their might
an demanded vote"
"A what?" cried Mr.. .Hennessy.
"a VOTE cried Mr.. Dooley
"fh' shameless viragoes,' said Mr..
Hennessy. "What did they do?"
well, sir" said Mr.. Dooley, IAN i'm
mense concoorse iv forty iv thin gath
cred in London an marched up to tn
Hcase iy Commons, or naytional dor
mytory, where a loud an almost uni
yersal snore proclaimed that a debate
was ragin' over tn bill to allow English
glntlemina to marry their deceased
wife's sister befure tn autopsy. In tn
great hall iv Rufus some iv tn might
lest male intellecks in Britain slept
undher their hats while animpassioned
orator delivered hem stitched speech
on tn subject iv tn day to tn attintive
knees an feet iv tn ministry. 1t was
into this here ASSEMBLY, iv til first gin
tlemin iv Europe that We see on ye'er
way to France that tn furyous females
attimpted to enter. Undaunted be tn
stairs iv tn building or tn rude jeers
iv tn multichood, they advanced to tn
very outside dures iv tn idifice. There
an oyerwhelmin' force iv three polls
men opposed thin. 'WhT dye want,
num-? asked tn polls. We demand tn
suffrage says tn commander iv tn
army iv freedom.
9Th brutal polls refused to give it to
thin, an a desp'rate battle followed.
TIL ladies fought calamity, hurlin cries
Nv Brute, Monster Cheap ct cethry,
at tn constablry. Hat pins were
dhrawn. Wan lady let down her back
hair; another, holder thin tn rest, done
a fit on tn marble stairs; third,
p'raps rendered insane be sufferin' FIR
a vote, sthruck bury ruffyan with a
Japanese fan on tn little finger iv tn
right hand. Thin tn infuryated officers
iv tn law charged on tn champions iv
liberty A scene iv horror followed.
Polismen seized ladies be tn arms an
led thin down tn stairs; others were
carried out faitin be tn tyrants. In a
few minyits all was over, an nawthin
but three hundred hairpins remained
to mark tn scene iv slaughter. Thus,
Hinnissy, was another battle FIR free
dom fought an lost"
1T sarves thin right" said Mr. Hen
messy ''They ought to be at home
tindn' tn babies
"A thrue statement an souhn
arSymlnt that appeals TO lVry man.
P'raps they haven't got any babies. A
baby is good substlchoot IT ballot,
an tn hand that rocks tn cradle sill
dom has time IT amy other luXurles.
But why shud we give thim vote,
says l. What have they done to injye
this here impeeryal suffrage that we
fought an bled f'r? Win me fore
fathers were followin' George Wash'n-
ton an sufferin all tn hardships that
men edure campin out in vacation
time, what were tn women dom?
They were back i'll Massachusetts
milllin' TIL COWS, mendin'- socks, fol-
1owin' tn pillow, plantin' corn. keepin'
store, shoein' horses, an pursooin' tn
other frivulous follies iv tn fair but
tickle sect. Afther tn war our brave
fellows come back to Boston an as a
reward FIR their devotion got vote
apiece. if their wives had kept tn Pill
grim fathers that stayed at home firm
foreclosin' TIL morgedge on their prop
erty An now, be hivins, they want
to share with us what we won.
"Why. they wudden't know how to
vote. They think it's an aisy job that
amy wan can do, but it amt It's a
mans wurruk, an sthrong mans
with a sthrong stomach. I don't know
annvthing that requires what Hogan
calls tn exercise " manly vigor more
thin votin' It's tn hardest wurruk
do in tn year get up befure day
light an thramp over in tn cold to tn
.1imple iv Freedom, which is also tn
Office iv a livery stable Wan iv tn
Judges has a cold in his head an closes
all tn windows Another judge has
bu~. a roarin' fire in a round stove an
is coollin' d-hots on it. TIL room is