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Best general references: Nation, Vol. 44, pp. 310 and 362 (Apr. 14 and 28, 1887); Forum XVII, p. 406 (June 1894); Bib. Sac. Vol...
...Municipal suffrage for women would not purify municipal politics.- (a) Married women almost without exception, would vote as their husbands voted: Bib. Sac., Vol. 50, p. 331.- (b) Unmarried women would be likely to vote less wisely than men. For (1) Women are more bitterly partisan, and would be moved more by sympathies than by reason: Forum, XVII, 409.- (2) In Kansas, the elections result less wisely than before women had the suffrage: Nat. Vol. 44, p. 310.- (c) The better class of women would not go to the polls.- (d) The lower classes, under the influence of their husbands...
Best general references: T. W. Higginson, "Common Sense about Women;" Pellew, "Woman and the Commonwealth;" Report of Mass. Bureau of Statistics of Labor, 1889; Speech of Senator Carey at Washington, Feb. 27, 1891; Woman Suffrage Leaflets, vol. II, No. 28 (Sept. 15, 1889); Vol. VII, No. 4 (July, 1895); Vol. VI, No. 4 (July, 1893); Vol. VI, No. 4 (July, 1894); Vol. II, No. 14 (Feb. 15, 1889); Speech of Hon. John D. Long at Melrose, Mass., Oct. 20, 1895; Speech of H. W. Beecher at Cooper Institute...
...many foreign countries she already possesses the power.- (1) England, Scotland, Wales.- (2) Australia and New Zealand.- (b) She possesses municipal suffrage in many States of the Union.- (c) Its extension has been favored, notably in Massachusetts, by many of the most eminent statesmen: W. S. Leaflet, Vol. I, No. 3 (Sept. 1888).- (d) It received 107,000 votes at the late referendum in this state...
...family at work.- (y) He often is a patron of vicious places near his own home.- (z) Municipal evil appeals so strongly to women that their vote would be constantly for purity as against vice and corruption: Testimony of the Govs. of Kas. and Wyo. in W. S. Leaflet, Vol. II, No. 28; Hon. J. S. Clarkson, "How Women Vote in Colorado," W. S. Leaflet, Vol. II, No. 6.- (d) The objection that, if the municipal franchise were extended to women, the entire immoral female element would vote with the corrupt men, has no weight.- (1) Unless the bad equal...