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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...
...political right is absolute and of universal application and the dogma that suffrage is a natural right has no support either in reason or experience.- Forum...
...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 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...
...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...