Votes for Women! The Woman's Reason Because…" [Pro-suffrage broadside.]

New York: [National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company Inc., n.d., ca. 1917] Probably printed ca. 1917. An earlier printing by the Libbie Printing Co. (Boston), which was printed with the name of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association rather than the NAWSA, states "Because 5,000,000 women in the United States are wage workers…" This flier states the number as "8,000,000," which conforms with a holding at the University of Houston dated 1917. . Orange paper sheet printed in black. . Broadside (7 x 10 "). A couple small nicks to edges of paper. A very good copy of a fragile, scarce item. The broadside presents ten arguments for why women should have the right to vote, including "because women must obey the laws just as men do, they should vote equally with men" and "because women pay taxes just as men do, thus supporting the government, they should vote equally with men." Other arguments include the fact that millions of women worked industrial jobs at the time, so they deserved a voice in improving workplace legislation; and that "mothers want to make their children's surroundings better." The final reason reads, "Because women are citizens of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, and women are people, they should vote equally with men."