Imagine the State of New York spending good money to chase a man whom it does not want as a citizen, and whom it can only punish by sending to jail for a short period.

The State is better off without such a man.

To bring him back would not even benefit his deserted family.
Women, far more law abiding than men, insist that a system which evolved out of feudal conditions, and has for its very basis the assumption of the weakness, ignorance, and dependence of women, has no place in twentieth century civilization.
American women are no longer weak, ignorant, dependent.

The present social order, in which military force is subordinated to industry and commerce, narrows the gulf between them, and places men and women physically on much the same plane.

As for women's intellectual ability to decide their own legal status, they are, taken the country over, rather better educated than men.