The unexpurgated case against woman suffrage / by Almroth E. Wright.

  • Wright, Almroth, 1861-1947.
Date:
1913
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    a mission to draw water for mankind out of the wells of salvation. Lastly, we have to reflect in connexion with the female legislative reformer that to go about proposing to reform the laws means to abandon that special field of useful- ness which lies open to woman in alleviating misery and redressing those hard cases which will, under all laws and regulations of human manufacture and under all social dispositions, inevitably occur. Now when a woman leaves a social task which is commensurate with her abilities, and which asks from her personal effort and self-sacrifice, for a task which is quite beyond her abilities, but which, she thinks, will bring her personal kudos, shall we impute it to her for righteousness ? V. Ulterior Ends which the Woman’s Suffrage Movement has in View We have now sufficiently considered the suffragist’s humanitarian schemes, and we may lead up to the con- sideration of her further projects by contrasting woman’s suffrage as it presents itself under colonial conditions,—i.e, woman’s suffrage without the female legislative reformer and the feminist—with the woman suffrage which is being agitated for in England—i.e. woman suffrage with the female legislative reformer and the feminist. In the colonies and undeveloped countries generally where women are in a minority, and where owing to the fact that practically all have an opportunity of marrying, there are not for woman any difficult economic and physio- logical conditions, there is no woman’s question; and by consequence no female legislative reformer or feminist. The woman voter follows, as the opportunist politicians who enfranchised her intended, the lead of her men-folk— serving only a pawn in the game of politics. Under such