LIFE Pro-Suffrage Number Vol. 62.
[Suffrage]. LIFE Pro-Suffrage Number Vol. 62, No. 1616. New York: Life Publishing Company, October 16, 1913.
Quarto, 639-678 pp.; printed wrappers; front cover with full-color illustration by Orson Lowell entitled “Four Voters”; the cover depicts a tall, slender woman all in white with four men ranged around her: an elaborately dressed African American, a rough laborer, an effete young gentleman and a shabbily attired Anarchist; some light overall wear with one distinct 2” crease to front panel; near fine.
The cover reiterates that many classes of men, educated or no, native born or no, could vote while women could not. The magazine opens with an editorial on “True Democracy”: “To say…that women differ from men, or that the woman’s sphere is distinct from the man’s, is to give the one essential reason for woman suffrage.” The editors declare: “This issue of Life perpetrates, illustrates, defends and illuminates the cause of Woman Suffrage. It has seemed to LIFE that it was only fair that this side should be given. And so, some time ago we made the announcement that we would issue a Pro-Suffrage Number, and extended an invitation to all of the friends of Suffrage to contribute...” The issue prints a number of telling cartoons by Harrison Cady, R.W. Manning, T.S. Allen, contributions by John Kendrick Bangs (“The Pro-Suffrage Campaign Book”), Anna Nixon (“A Declaration By the Women of the United States”), satirical pieces, “Ten Good Reasons Against Woman Suffrage” by 'Mrs. Nance Fluffield Hoodwink,” verses, anecdotes and pro-suffrage statements. A vivid reflection of pro-suffrage as it gained acceptance by mainstream America.
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