Do You Know?
Catt, Carrie Chapman. Do You Know? Revised and Extended. New York: National American Woman Suffrage Association, [ca. 1912].
Slim 12mo.; mauve wrappers; fine.
First edition of this scarce pamphlet, in which Catt printed the benefits that would be realized by granting suffrage to women in a “Just the Facts, Ma’am” style. Do You Know? was published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association during Catt’s respite from her duties as its president—a role she adopted in 1900 for four years and would soon accept again, from 1915-1920. Do You Know?, published sometimes between 1910 and 1914, attempted to educate its readers about the statistical facts of woman’s suffrage:
DO YOU KNOW that wherever woman have got the vote they have used it in large numbers—larger, frequently, than the men of the same city, state, or country; in fact in the first election after the New Zealand women were given the franchise, seventy-eight per cent of the women voted as opposed to sixty-nine per cent of the men, while in subsequent elections the proportion of both men and women voting steadily rose until now it is about eighty per cent of the qualified persons of both sexes…
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