Alice Stone Blackwell's Why Women Should Vote, Persuasive Pamphlet, 1904

Blackwell, Alice Stone

Pamphlet

Blackwell, Alice Stone. Why Women Should Vote. National Suffrage Headquarters: New York, 1904. 4 pages. 6" x 3.5" inches. Small pamphlet. Early edition. Prominent feminist, suffragist and journalist Alice Stone Blackwell makes a concise argument in sixteen reasons women should be granted the right to vote. Rare: Per OCLC Worldcat, no copies of this 1904 edition held in any libraries or institutions worldwide. "The reasons why women should vote are the same as the reasons why men should vote-the same as the reasons for having a republic rather than a monarchy. It is fair and right that the people who must obey the laws should have a voice in choosing the law-makers, and that those who must pay the taxes should have a voice as to the amount of the tax, and the way in which the money shall be spent.". .." girls are getting more schooling than boys. Equal suffrage would increase the proportion of voters who have received more than a merely elementary education." .. "Will Women Vote? ..Women to-day have the right to vote in many different parts of the civilized world. They not only have it, but use it." Creased at one corner with light pencil on margins does not affect text. Front page stamped with "McCormick Collection" and handwritten "Pam 2221". A persuasive case for women's suffrage almost twenty years before women won the right to vote. A ten cent copy, this pamphlet would have been distributed to influence public opinion. Overall good condition. At the time that this description is being written, no copies are recorded in American institutions. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can vary over time.

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Price: $375.00