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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…
Circular : Living wages and the ballot. / by Dr. Raymond V. Phelan. [Circa 1913-1915]
Reprint of an essay written by Raymond Vincent Phelan. Phelan argues that wage-earning women need to be a part of the labor unions and the right to vote to give them the power to protect their interests.
The National American Woman Suffrage…
The National American Woman Suffrage…
Circular : Remarks on "The Ladies' Battle." / by Alice Stone Blackwell. [Circa 1913-1915]
Alice Stone Blackwell compiles statements made by prominent legal authorities to refute the facts and assertions made in the book "The Ladies' Battle", written by author and anti-suffragist, Molly Elliott Seawell.
The National American Woman…
The National American Woman…
Circular : Suffrage and soldiering. / by Edwin D. Mead. [Circa 1913-1915]
Reprinted from the Woman's Journal, pacifist and social reformer, Edwin D. Mead refutes the argument that government rests on force and women should not be permitted to vote based on their ability to be physically defend the nation as a soldier or…
Circular : That "biological argument." / by Dr. Woods Hutchinson. [Circa 1913-1915]
Portion of an article from the Saturday Evening Post written by Dr. Woods Hutchinson, an English physician. Hutchinson argues that women's experience as homemakers is the reason they should be politically active.
The National American Woman…
The National American Woman…
Circular : The "Unanswerable argument" answered. / by Mrs. Lida Calvert Obenchain. [Circa 1913-1915]
Reprinted from The Woman's Journal, Obenchain counters the anti-suffrage argument that the average American woman does not care about the right to vote by declaring that progress relies on a small group of people who set aside the opinions of…
Circular : The direct way. / by Frances Squire Potter. [Circa 1913-1915]
Frances Squire Potter, author, educator and lecturer, refutes two common anti-suffrage arguments. The first, that equal suffrage is not a pressing need, to which she answers that granting women's suffrage will make addressing other issues "easier and…
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 : What difference does it make to the woman. / by Ellis Meredith. [Circa 1913-1915]
Portion of an article written by journalist and writer, Ellis Meredith, entitled "The Struggle for Equal Rights" originally published in "Pictorial Review." Meredith enumerates the ways in which the lack of suffrage impacts women, including marriage…
Circular : Why the housekeeper needs the vote. / by Anne O'Hagan. [Circa 1913-1915]
Reprinted from Smith's Magazine, housekeeper, Anne O'Hagan argues that housekeepers and homemakers need the right to vote because of their concern for tenement house laws, safe and pure food laws, building codes, and other issues related to safety in…