Title | Socialist Handbook, Campaign 1916 |
Alternative Title | Socialist handbook, for president, Allen L. Benson; for vice-president, George R. Kirkpatrick; the workers' candidates, not backed by Wall street or the war trust |
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Publisher | Socialist Party |
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Date | 1916 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 63 pages; 17 cm. |
Original Item Location | HX89.S62 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304531~S11 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
Use and Reproduction | This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
File Name | index.cpd |
Title | Image 58 |
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Transcript | 10—Nevada, 1914. 11—Montana, 1914. 12—Illinois, 1913. Nearly complete. The twenty-one states allowing partial suffrage to women are: Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan (defeated full suffrage in 1912), Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri (defeated full suffrage in 1914), Nebraska (defeated full suffrage in 1914), New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota (defeated full suffrage in 1914), Oklahoma, Ohio (defeated full suffrage in 1912 and in 1914), South Dakota (defeated full suffrage in 1914), Vermont and Wisconsin. WHY WE MUST HAVE AN AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION By MARY BEARD and FLORENCE KELLEY A Study of State Constitutions Which Lack Suffrage Amendments Issued by the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Reprinted by the National Office of the Socialist Party. In view of the fact that both of the old parties have offered to give women the right of franchise by way of state enactments, it is interesting to read the following catalog of difficulties in the way along that line—difficulties that make the task almost hopeless. The notion is current that the extension of the suffrage to women is essentially a state matter, capable of simple, democratic treatment, which ought to be entirely satisfactory to the women who are still without votes. Instead of being simple and democratic, however, the state method is slow, cumbersome, and in many states, hopeless, for the following definite reasons: 1. In New Mexico, during the first twenty-five years after adoption of the recent constitution, an amendment 56 |