Some Things the MA Legislature of 1889 and '90 did for Men…
.Stone, Lucy. Some Things the Massachusetts Legislature of 1889 and '90 Did for Men, Who Have Votes, Contrasted with What it Did for Women, Who Have No Votes...Boston: [No Printer], June 17, 1890.
Broadside; 14 1/2 x 6 3/8"; double columns, about 900 words; expertly repaired slit in vertical crease where previously folded (without loss); left margin narrowed below center (for previous folding); very good.
Addresses the question of woman suffrage and derides the ignoble men who ignored it but strengthened the rights of men to vote by various acts relating to residents requirements, male criminals, etc. A very interesting and persuasive text which begins humorously.
The Massachusetts Legislature has adjourned...It dealt with the gypsy moth, and appropriated thousand of dollars on its account. It saved the scalp of the woodchuck...it left the dogs to go unmuzzled and the sheep to shift for themselves. It measured the length of a saleable lobster...It spent much time upon butter and lard and oleo...and tried to find the weight of a dozen eggs...
Then Stone gets serious:
We did not ask for full suffrage, but only that women qualified as above stated might vote for the men who would levy taxes upon their property and have the spending of their money, and that in the cities and towns there they live they might vote on questions of common interest to men and women. But the Legislature, so tender to suffrage for men, turned its heart to stone, and the House of Representatives, by a large majority, denied to all women the smallest shred of suffrage.
Not in Kirchmar nor Franklin.
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