Speech of Hon. Edward T. Taylor of Colorado in the House of Representatives April 24, 1912.
Taylor, Edward T[homas]. "Speech of Hon. Edward T. Taylor of Colorado in the House of Representatives April 24, 1912.” Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1912.
8vo, 41 pp.; wire-stitched; unbound (as issued); with the original mailing envelope; acidic browning to paper; very good.
Congressman Edward Taylor of Colorado, with Judge Ben Lindsay also of Colorado, was a stalwart supporter of woman suffrage in Congress. The main points appear at the head: "A woman’s vote is always a patriotic vote;" "The men of the West have added justice to chivalry," "The continued disfranchisement of women is a relic of antiquity that belongs to other days," etc. Taylor enumerates how woman suffrage has affected Colorado politically and legally and emphasizes that woman suffrage throughout the United States is not a question of "if" but of "when.” At the end of the pamphlet is chart noting where and when women gained some form of franchise, beginning with limited school suffrage in Kentucky (1838) and concluding with Iceland (1911). Thousands of copies of the speech, which NAWSA esteemed as eloquent and persuasive, were distributed. The franking privilege enjoyed by Congress appears to have been used to NAWSA’s advantage as the accompanying envelope suggests. See Krichmar 2047.
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