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Our Own Twelve Anti-suffragist Reasons
- Because no woman will leave her domestic duties to vote.
- Because no woman who may vote will attend to her domestic duties.
- Because it will make dissension between husband and wife.
- Because every woman will vote as her husband tells her to.
- Because bad women will corrupt politics.
- Because bad politics will corrupt women.
- Because women have no power of organization.
- Because women will form a solid party and outvote men.
- Because men and women are so different that they must stick to different duties.
- Because men and women are so much alike that men, with one vote each, can represent their own views and ours too.
- Because women cannot use force.
- Because the militants did use force.
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