Word: womens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Thursday.Seminary of Classical Philology. Open Meeting. On Women's Names among the Romans. Mr. G. D. Chase. Sever...
Debate of March 19, 1896.Question: "Resolved, That Municipal Suffrage should be extended to Women in Massachusetts...
...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...
...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...
...women should mix in political affairs, their elevating influence upon society through the home would be impaired.- (a) Their greatest strength lies in influencing their sons and husbands toward good.- (b) Not only would they lose much of this influence, but also their own self-respect.- (c) The testimony of Kansas points toward a lowering of woman's dignity through politics: Nation...