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  • Tags: Women's Anti-suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York

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Reprinted "from an Article in the American Woman's Journal for May, 1894."

The author argues against women's suffrage, writing that woman's power and influence is in the home and through her family, and claiming the ballot "would be a hindrance"…

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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…

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Reprint of an essay written by historian and writer, Francis Parkman, originally published in 1884. Parkman offers reasons why women should not be permitted to vote, including health risks to women, the danger to popular government, and the idea that…

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Annual report of the Third Judicial District of the New York State Association Oppossed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women includes a summary of activities and a list of where letters and leaflets were sent throughout the year.

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Special newspaper issued by the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York. It is a compilation of articles on the written about the anti-suffrage movement and the reasons for opposition to suffrage.…

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Text of the resolution presented by Anna Parker Pruyn, President of the Albany Anti-Suffrage Association. Speaking on behalf of a group of women from New York, she argues against the "proposal to strike out the word 'male' in the constitutional…

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Describes a conversation with John Ruskin, English art critic, philanthropist, and artist, in which Ruskin discusses his views on limiting suffrage only to men who own property and can read and write.

Reprinted by the Women's Anti-suffrage…

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Address delivered by Francis M. Scott to the Committtee on Suffrage at the New York Constitutional Convention, and reprinted for distribution by the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York.

Scott…

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Reprinted from his "Essays on Questions of the Day," British historian and journalist, Goldwin Smith, argues against woman suffrage.

Stamp on back reads: "Apply for more papers to [Women's] Anti-Suffrage Association [of the Third Judicial District…
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