Anti-suffrage Essays

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Ernest Bernbaum
J. Haien, 1916 - 132 lappuses
The 1915 campaign by the Massachusetts Women's Anti-Suffrage Association was a successful one. These essays, written by some of the Association's active campaigners, reveal some of the period's most convincing arguments against suffrage for women.

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25. lappuse - He has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.
93. lappuse - Settlement discovers above all what has been called "the extraordinary pliability of human nature," and it seems impossible to set any bounds to the moral capabilities which might unfold under ideal civic and educational conditions. But in order to obtain these conditions, the Settlement recognizes the need of cooperation, both with the radical and the conservative, and from the very nature of the case the Settlement cannot limit its friends to any one political party or economic school.
24. lappuse - The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.
79. lappuse - Women scholars have another and still more cruel handicap. They may have spent half a lifetime in fitting .''102: * .". : SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY themselves for their chosen work and then may be asked to choose between it and marriage. No one can estimate the number of women who remain unmarried in revolt before such a horrible alternative.
128. lappuse - You deal in the raw material of opinion and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world. It is, therefore, of very serious things that I think as I face this body of men. I do not think of you, however, as members of the Associated Press. I do not think of you as men of different parties or of different racial derivations or of different religious denominations.
150. lappuse - ... without the interference and permission of the Church and State, and this neither constitutes promiscuity nor yet polyandry, but an opportunity to live your own life in your own way and not to have to sacrifice your name, privacy, self-respect and income in order to gratify the sex instinct.
107. lappuse - ... applied only to one party, which can be entirely offset by the votes of women who are ignorant, boss-controlled, and whose votes are purchasable— if they prefer that, they will get their wish if woman suffrage wins. That is exactly how it is working out in the suffrage states.... Dance Hall Girls There is no lack of testimony that the wrong-minded women do vote. On November 4, the day after election, the San Francisco Examiner said: "McDonough Brothers had several automobiles busy all day long...
102. lappuse - ... controlled. More than one refugee has been escorted back to his duties by women sentinels when legislation on which they were determined has been up for a vote. In such cases the woman's influence lies not in physical force, for she has never been seen to lay hands upon the recalcitrant legislator, but in the occasional subservience of the mind of man to the actual presence of a moral force.
108. lappuse - in spite of announcements of officials to the contrary, San Francisco remains one of the few large cities of this country where prostitution is frankly and openly tolerated. The natural and inevitable result has been that San Francisco has become the Mecca of the underworld, and that for every such addition to her population the problem is rendered that much more difficult.
115. lappuse - I believe in woman suffrage whether all women vote or no women vote, whether all women vote right or all women vote wrong, whether women will love their husbands after they vote or forsake them, whether they will neglect their children or never have any children.

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