Ogden Daily Standard | 1908-08-29 | Page 6 | Objects to "Suffragette"

objects to suffragette it is time observes a writer in the ondon london I chronicle that the term suffragette was waa abandoned as the suffragist movement has hag taken its serious place in politics the word Is not worth preserving it la is used as a a term of reproach and does not enrich the language women do not want the tha acte in order to maintain a distinction but in order to obliterate it they want to bo suffragists and citizens just as a men are therefore we have no place placa for such a mongrel word as suffragette in our political vocabulary the latest addi addition to political terminology Is more useful it Is plat formula it was invented by john af robertson I 1 M 1 I P and is intended to describe something rather indefinite in the way of political pledges something which Is partly a formula which politicians should adopt and at the same time to Is supposed to have a place in the party platform