Article on woman suffrage introduced in the United States Senate by Hon. Thomas B. Catron, Senator from the state of New Mexico. February 19, 1917

Article on woman suffrage introduced in the United States Senate by Hon. Thomas B. Catron, Senator from the state of New Mexico. February 19, 1917

Article, written by Senator Thomas B. Catron, in opposition to a federal suffrage amendment.

Contents include:
Failure of women to vote when given the ballot
The women's vote for president
Taxation and woman suffrage
Prohibition and woman suffrage
Schools and playgrounds
Vice not suppressed where women vote
War and woman suffrage
Wage-earning women and woman suffrage
Woman suffrage undemocratic
Woman suffrage not an inherent right
Women as office seekers
Rural communities and woman suffrage
Women as jurors in woman suffrage states
Feminism and socialism
Woman suffrage and divorce
Woman suffrage unjust
Population, not territory, counts
High cost of woman suffrage
Defeats of woman suffrage
Opinions of eminent men against woman suffrage.

1917

Anti-suffrage
Catron, Thomas Benton, 1840-1921
Constitutional amendments
Women--Suffrage--New Mexico

Catron, Thomas Benton, 1840-1921

Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office

16 p.

English

DOCU.1917.12

Articles

24 x 15.5 cm.