Word: woman
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...would not go to the polls.- (d) The lower classes, under the influence of their husbands and vile politicians, would use their right freely: Nat.vol. 44, p. 310.- (e) The uncounted army of women in brothels and slums would vote under the influence of money.- (f) In New Jersey, woman suffrage was abolished with the concurrence of both sexes, because her corrupt voting rendered the elections of that state a mere farce...
...Women do not want and would not use the municipal suffrage.- (a) In Wichita, Kansas, out of thirty-five women qualified to vote, two hundred voted in 1887: Nation, Vol. 44, p. 362.- (b) In Massachusetts in 1886, only one woman in every two hundred and fifty four could be induced to go to the polls to exercise the school suffrage: Bib. Sac. Vol. 50, p. 331.- (c) When woman suffrage was brought before the people in 1894, only one-tenth of the women of Massachusetts expressed their wish to vote...
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...
...taxes should have a distinct voice in the government.- (1) The objection that women can be adequately represented by man, is unsound.- (x) Many women have no husbands or male relatives.- (y) She differs widely from man in views and interests.- (c) The objection that woman should not vote, because they cannot fight, is unsound...
...Municipal suffrage for women is for the best interests of the family.- (a) The woman is directly responsible for the rearing of her children and the making of them honest men and women.- (b) In the functions of municipal government are involved the most vital interests of the family.- (1) Education in public schools.- (2) Sanitary conditions.- (x) Water supply. (y) Clean streets.- (z) More wholesome tenements.- (3) Parks and play-grounds. (4) The reduction to a minimum of the municipal evils involved in-(x) Saloons,- (y) brothels,- (z) gambling houses.- (c) The direct voice of woman is necessary...