THE SOCIALIST AND THE SUFFRAGIST

Said the Socialist to the Suffragist :
"My cause is greater than yours!
You only work for a Special Class
We for the gain of the General Mass,
Which every good ensures !"
Said the Suffragist to the Socialist :
"You underrate my cause!
While women remain Subject Class,
You never can move the General Mass,
With your economic laws !"
Said the Socialist to the Suffragist :
"You misinterpret facts,
There is no room for doubt or schism
in Economic determinism----
It governs all our facts !"
Said the Suffragist to the Socialist :
"You men will always find
That this old world will never move
More swiftly in its ancient groove
While women stay behind !"
"A lifted world lifts women up"
The Socialist explained
"You can not lift the world at all
While half of it kept so small,"
The Suffragist maintained.
The world awoke and tartly spoke :
"Your work is all the same ;
Work together or work apart,
Work, each of you, will all your heart
Just get into the game."


C.P. Gilman, 1912