CAMPAIGN MATERIAL
The Logic of the Law
In 1875 the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in denying the petition of women to practise before it said:
"It would be shocking to man's reverence for womanhood and faith in woman … that woman should be permitted to mix professionally in all the nastiness which finds its way into courts of justice."
It then names thirteen subjects as unfit for the attention of women—three of them are crimes committed against women.
Consistency
("Vile insults, lewd talk and brutal conduct were used by the indicted men to frighten respectable women who went to the polls in Terre Haute at the last election, asserted District Attorney Dailey."—Press Dispatch.)
Are the polls unfit for decent women?
No, sir, they are perfectly orderly.
Tut, tut! Go there at once and swear and be brutal, or what will become of our anti-suffrage argument?
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