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Seriously. This is from an archivist who collects suffrage materials.
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THE FREDERICK (MD) POST SEP 20, 1932
PAGE FOUR COLUMN ONE
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Sep 20, 1932 : Suffragists Vindicated / Presidency Next ?
WOMAN'S NEXT GOAL
It seems now to be necessary to call
imagination to one's aid to believe that
once there was a "militant" feminist
movement, and that many respectable
persons thought it was horribly radical
and perverse. And it is no less hard to
think that those fine old ladies who sit
quietly on the platform at political
meetings of women were one-time very
fiery leaders of the reviled "cause."
Yet it was not so many years back
that the suffragettes were doing every-
thing from smashing windows to
"imperiling the empire."
One dare not say the suffragettes
were remarkable women. So far as can be
learned they were, except for their courage
and vigor, rather ordinary women. And are
not nearly all women courageous and vig-
orous ? In that campaign they were
ordinary women gone berserk, become
determined and resolute, fearless and
powerful.
In its time the militant stroke seemed
almost unthinkable. Now that its purpose
has been accomplished and accepted it
does not seem to have been unusual except
as a sudden and astonishing revelation of
woman's ability to carry on war when she
deems it right to do so. They hastened
progress even when their tactics seemed
most foolish and violent. Above all they
showed that woman could be a match for
man in strength of purpose and in un-
compromising action.
Some day another generation of
"suffragettes" may go berserk again and
prove that the presidency is not too high
an office for one of their own sex.
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