Word: women
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Women desire the right of suffrage. (a) They are asking for it through their representative women. (b) They have sent memorials to Congress and State legislatures.- H. R. Mis. Doc., 46th Cong., 2nd Sess...
...Women will improve the moral condition of politics.- H. W. Beecher, "Women in Politics," pp. 11, 15; G. W. Curtis, "Equal Rights of Women," p. 17; J. S. Mill, "Subjection of Women...
...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...
...theory that all women or majority of women would vote for the purification of politics and society has been contradicted by actual experience in Utah.- Forum IV, 1-15. 2. Women suffragists have an exaggerated idea of the power of the ballot and legislation to remedy moral and social evils- New Englander...
Question: "Resolved, that the right of suffrage should be extended to women...