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A Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates

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WOMAN AND THE REPUBLIC

A SURVEY OF THE WOMAN-SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES AND ADISCUSSION OF THE CLAIMS AND ARGUMENTS OF ITS FOREMOST ADVOCATES BY

HELEN KENDRICK JOHNSON

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORYCHAPTER II. IS WOMAN SUFFRAGE DEMOCRATIC?CHAPTER III. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE AMERICAN REPUBLICCHAPTER IV. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND PHILANTHROPYCHAPTER V. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE LAWSCHAPTER VI. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE TRADESCHAPTER VII. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE PROFESSIONSCHAPTER VIII. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND EDUCATIONCHAPTER IX. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE CHURCHCHAPTER X. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND SEXCHAPTER XI. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE HOMECHAPTER XII. CONCLUSION

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY.

The introduction to the "History of Woman Suffrage," published in 1881-85,edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda JoslynGage, contains the following statement: "It is often asserted that, aswoman has always been man's slave, subject, inferior, dependent, under allforms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition;but that her condition is abnormal is proved by the marvellous change inher character, from a toy in the Turkish harem, or a drudge in the Germanfields, to a leader of thought in the literary circles of France, England,and America."

I have made this quotation partly on account of its direct application tothe subject to be discussed, and partly to illustrate the contradictionsthat seem to inhere in the arguments on which the claim to Woman Suffrageis founded. If woman has become a leader of thought in the literarycircles of the most cultivated lands, she has not always been man's slave,subject, inferior, dependent, under all forms of government and religion;and, furthermore, it is not true that there has been such a marvellouschange in her character as is implied in this statement. Where man is abigot and a barbarian, there, alas! woman is still a harem toy; where manis little more than a human clod, woman is to-day a drudge in the field;where man has hewn the way to governmental and religious freedom, therewoman has become a leader of thought. The unity of race progress isstrikingly suggested by this fact. The method through which that unity ismaintained should unfold itself as we study the story of the sexadvancement of our time.

Progress is a magic word, and the Suffrage party has been fortunate in itsattempt to invoke the sorcery of the thought that it enfolds, and to blendit with the claim of woman to share in the public duty of voting.Possession of the elective franchise is a symbol of power in man's hand;why should it not bear the same relation to woman's upward impulse andaction? Modern adherents ask, "Is not the next new force at hand in oursocial evolution to come from the entrance of woman upon the politicalarena?" The roots of these questions, and consequently of their answers,lie as deep as the roots of being, and they cannot be laid bare bysuperficial digging. But the laying bare of roots is not the only way, oreven the best way, to judge of the strength and beauty of a growth. Welook at the leaves, the flowers, and the fruit. "Movement" and "Progress"are not synonymous terms. In evolution there is degeneration as well asregeneration. Only the work that has been in accord with the highestideals of woman's nature is fitted

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