Word: womans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Best general reference: J. J. Ingals on "The Sixteenth Amendment," in Forum, 1887. Catherine E. Beecher, "Woman's Suffrage and Woman's Profession...
...Woman is entitled to an equality of rights with man but not to an identity of rights. (a) Her temperament is different; (b) This difference of temperament especially unfits her for politics.- Nation VIII, 88, X, 205: Forum...
...Woman's influence must be that exercised in her family by her sympathy and refinement. These qualities would be changed if she mingled in politics.- Bushnell, Woman's Suffrage...
...Woman does not need the ballot to protect her rights.- Bushnell, Woman's Suffrage, p. 29. (b) Suffrage should be conferred only on those who can enforce its decrees.- Forum...
...Woman suffrage is inexpedient. (a) The great majority of women do not desire suffrage. (b) The class of women who would make use of it would, as a rule, belong to the ignorant and degraded classes in large cities.- New Englander, 1884, p. 206-7. (c) The influence of the Roman Catholic Church would be vastly increased.- Forum IV, 14-15. (d) It would add 2,300,000 illiterate and ill-qualified voters to the 1,900,000 already existing...