What President Wilson Says" - 2 copies.
[Suffrage]. New York State Woman Suffrage Party. What President Wilson Says. New York: Printed by N.W.S. Publishing Co., n.d. [1917].
Single leaf, 7 x 10”; printed on recto and verso.
This printed leaf was clearly meant to have been folded in half to make a four-page leaflet, but survived unfolded, most likely never having been distributed. It was part of the campaign for the New York state Woman Suffrage Amendment on the November 6, 1917 ballot.
The “cover” bears the title, a black and white photographic portrait of Wilson, and an excerpt from a May 16, 1917 speech: “We are fighting for the essential part of it all, (democracy) namely…to have a right to a voice in the Government under which we live, and when men and women are equally admitted to those rights, we have the best safeguard of justice and of peace that the world affords. There is no other safeguard.” Opposite, on what would have been the back of the leaflet, is the call to “Stand by Our President,” to “[S]how that you are a true American,” to work for, and vote for, “the N.Y. Woman Suffrage Amendment November 6th, 1917.”
The internal matter opens with an emblazoned header: “President Wilson Wants Woman Suffrage.” The two pages following quote from his September 8, 1916 address to suffragists at their national convention; his January 27, 1917 letter to Carrie Chapman Catt; his March 3, 1917 telegraph to the Honorable W.R. Crabtree; and his war message to Congress on April 3, 1917: Just after promising to make the world safe for democracy, Wilson said, “We shall fight for the things we have always carried nearest our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments.” The New York State Woman Suffrage Party wanted that battle waged on the home front as well as on Flanders fields.
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