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Book. Woman Suffrage: Its Causes and Possible Consequences. Chicago: Press of Barnard & Miller, 1914. 92 pp. "it is clear that woman suffrage should be discarded for the following reasons: First. It disrupts the home. Second. The woman is physically unfit for certain offices. Third. Politics is the most corrupt game of the age. Fourth. The right to vote does imply the right to become eligible to nomination or election to public offices. Fifth. The influence of the woman should be of a persuasive nature, and should be exercised at home. Sixth. Jealousy would destroy domestic happiness. Seventh. Women voters are unnecessary. Eighth. Women could never control men, on account of weaker physical conditions. Ninth. The needs of the family would be increased while incomes would decrease. Tenth. When the woman is with child, she is liable to suffer as a result of any emotion or abuse." (p74-76)Gigliotti, a naturalized Italian-American attorney in Chicago, declares limited women's suffrage as a failure in reforming politics and even opposes separate ownership of property by women, because husbands use their wives to hide their assets. Excerpts:"The agitation and the propaganda which have held this country spellbound during the past five or ten years, in relation to woman suffrage, which has an equal number of female supporters and opponents, and the fact that the problem is, probably, the most interesting of all problems, have influenced me to prepare this book, which is a modest but comprehensive study of all reasons and arguments advanced for and against suffrage." (p1)"The militant suffrage movement has been confined, up to the present time, to a lot of old maids, or soreheads, or ugly looking women, or hysterical females, who have tried to place themselves in the limelight, and to secure a husband, or a male sympathizer, who could be attracted by their noise, if not by their lack of beauty." (p5-6)"only the abnormal woman is looking for equal suffrage. A great number of others will take advantage of it, for a short time, to enjoy the new experience, but will quit voting as soon as they get acquainted with the situation." (p8)"The laws should be but are not, equal for all. They give women privileges and protection that is denied the men. The laws discriminate, but in favor of the woman." (p12)"The run for the right to vote, therefore, is transforming itself into the run for offices, and incidentally, for the political patronage connected with same." (p20)"The theory of equality might be a fine theory, but it is not supported by facts. The woman, in fact, is not equal to the man. She is considerably different." (p25)"It is absurd to claim equality of rights when human nature has rendered impossible equality of duties." (p28)"Who would exercise the additional influence which the votes for women bring about? The answer is easy: The foreign element of the American population, or, to be more explicit, those who will be shrewd enough to control it. The foreign element of the American population comes from the lowest scales of life. It is made up, in the whole, by peasants and laborers who come here in an effort to better their conditions. This element is industrious, willing, hard working. But.they preserve the same habits, the same superstitions, the same mental slavery which centuries of ill government have built around them." (p49)"The objection to woman suffrage is not based upon the idea that women should be deprived of an innocent distraction, but upon observation and consideration which point to the fact that the innocent distraction will act as a disrupter of home life, and of home quiet." (p54)"Some people are inclined to favor woman suffrage in Illinois because the legislature of the state has enacted a law granting limited suffrage, the Governor has signed it, and the Supreme Court has declared it to be constitutional. The law was upheld by a vote of fou. (See website for full description). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 25602
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