Single sheet, folded to make 4 pp
1906.] · [Portland, Oregon:
by [ Women's Suffrage]
[Portland, Oregon: Oregon Equal Suffrage Association, 1906.] Published to encourage voters to support the 1906 women's suffrage ballot measure in Oregon. Women's suffrage appeared on the ballot in Oregon six times (in 1884, 1900, 1906, 1908, 1910, and 1912), which was more than any other state. "When the pioneer mothers of Oregon toiled across the plains beside their weary and heart-sick husbands, beset with perils…did they think the coming generation would be ungrateful and selfish enough to deny them the fullest political prerogative in the State they helped to found?" . Single sheet, folded to make 4 pp. 6 x 11. Compiles nearly forty excerpts from Oregon newspapers making pro-suffrage arguments, including one column discussing the support of "mayors of 150 cities in the five States where women suffrage now prevails—Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, and Kansas" (women's voting rights in Kansas were restricted to municipal elections). The newspaper excerpts demonstrate various pro-suffrage arguments of the day: women would vote against child labor, white American women deserve the right to vote if immigrant men had it, women's involvement in politics would decrease rates of corruption, etc.
(Inventory #: 17696)