The Argument Of The Broken Window Pane

Often I Have Heard The Taunt That Suffragists Are Women Who Have Failed To Find Any Normal Outlet For Their Emotions, And Are Therefore Soured And Disappointed Beings. This Is Probably Not True Of Any Suffragist, And It Is Most Certainly Not True Of Me. My Home Life And Relations Have Been As Nearly Ideal As Possible In This Imperfect World.

The Argument Of The Broken Window Pane Is The Most Valuable Argument In Modern Politics.

Governments Have Always Tried To Crush Reform Movements, To Destroy Ideas, To Kill The Thing That Cannot Die. Without Regard To History, Which Shows That No Government Have Ever Succeeded In Doing This, They Go On Trying In The Old, Senseless Way.

One Baby Is A Patient Baby, And Waits Indefinitely Until Its Mother Is Ready To Feed It. The Other Baby Is An Impatient Baby And Cries Lustily, Screams And Kicks And Makes Everybody Unpleasant Until It Is Fed. Well, We Know Perfectly Well Which Baby Is Attended To First. That Is The Whole History Of Politics.

It Always Seems To Me When The Anti-suffrage Members Of The Government Criticise Militancy In Women That It Is Very Like Beasts Of Prey Reproaching The Gentler Animals Who Turn In Desperate Resistance When At The Point Of Death.