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Circular : Voting and fighting. / by Alice Stone Blackwell. [Circa 1913]
Alice Stone Blackwell addresses the idea that if women were granted the right to vote, they should also be able to fight as a soldier or a police officer. She argues that a significant portion of men are neither soldier or police officer, but still…
Circular : Is voting an industry? / by Alice Stone Blackwell. [Circa 1913-1915]
Alice Stone Blackwell argues that the issues of whether women should have the right to vote and whether they should work outside of the home are separate and unrelated. She also makes the point that the most successful governments are controlled by…
Leaflet : As to suffrage in New York State. [Circa 1895-1896]
Letter to the editor of The Sun, New York, written by an author identified only as "A.P.P." The author argues against granting New York women the right to vote because the majority of women in the state are anti-suffrage. He or she cites the…
Leaflet : No woman suffrage vote. [Circa 1895-1900]
Author discusses the results of the non-binding referendum held in Massachusetts in which women were allow to vote on the issue of municipal suffrage and the referendum was rejected. The author asserts that women will not be granted the right to vote…
Leaflet : Bishop Seymour on the new woman : God created man and woman somewhat differently--the difference cannot be obliterated. [Circa 1896-1898]
Reprint of a statement given by Bishop George F. Seymour to a reporter from the Minneapolis Times about the way in which God made women and the negative implications of an idea such as "the new woman."
"The New Woman" was a term used toward the…
"The New Woman" was a term used toward the…
Leaflet : If women could vote! [Circa 1896-1900]
Essay written by an unidentified author who suggests that "giving of the suffrage to women would bring about civil discord." She or he argues that women have all of the rights they need and granting women the right to vote would do more harm than…
Leaflet : The silent woman. [Circa 1897-1900]
Reprint of an article that appeared in the Buffalo (New York) Express, written by an author only identified as "A.S.W." The author refers to a woman opposed to suffrage as "the silent woman" because of her preference to stay out of the public arena.…
Leaflet : Do not want the ballot : a correspondent who is opposed to making them voters. March 22, 1896. [Circa 1896-1900]
Letter to the editor of the New York times by author identified only as "E.S.C." The author argues that if granted the right to vote, women would not use it and it would only cause them physical discomfort. He or she also says that women's votes will…
Leaflet : Woman's demand for suffrage : unwieldy millions already and ignorance sufficiently cumbersome. April 25, 1896. [Circa 1896-1900]
Letter to the editor of the New York Times by author identified only as "E.S.C." The author argues that adding women voters to an unwieldy group of people already unqualified to vote would be further detrimental to the nation.
The letter was…
The letter was…
Leaflet : The woman suffrage vote; an analysis of it by the Man Suffrage Association. December 4, 1895. [Circa 1895-1900]
Letter written "to the people of Massachusetts" by Francis C. Lowell, Chairman, and Charles R. Saunders, Secretary, of the Massachusetts Man Suffrage Association. The letter analyzed the results of the 1895 non-binding referendum concerning municipal…