Population Votes -- Not Area.
National Association Opposed to Suffrage. Broadside: “Population Votes - - - Not Area.” [New York]: National Association Opposed to Suffrage, [ND, but ca. 1915].
Broadside: 20 x 8-7/16,” printed black on newsprint; broadside has separated along middle fold (without loss of text); newsprint somewhat fragile and age-toned; the large graphic appears horizontally on the broadside with the map and its text perpendicular; good.
The Association argues that though large areas of the country may be equal suffrage they represent a small percentage of the American population: “The suffragists fail to tell their audience that the entire population of those eleven woman suffrage states is about 900,000 less than the population of the state of New York.” In fact, suffragists have suffered recent defeats in Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio and South Dakota: “'Woman suffrage is going, not coming.'” Pro-suffrage groups such as the NAWSA frequently used maps to illustrate the march of suffrage from the west to the east. This is the first time, however, we have seen an anti suffrage group use such a map in rebuttal.
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