Letter: TLS, "Alice Stone Blackwell," to the editor of a periodical.
Blackwell, Alice Stone. Typed letter signed, “Alice Stone Blackwell,” to the editor of an unnamed periodical, c.1916.
Typed in blue on one leaf.
Blackwell, in her letter headed, “Is Mr. Hughes Right?,” questions Charles Evans Hughes’ assertion that woman suffrage is inevitable. She asks the editor to “look at the hard facts in the case,” and presents a cogent narrative timeline of events in the crusade for woman suffrage. After reminding her reader that “ninety years ago, women could not vote anywhere, except at municipal elections in Sweden and a few other places in Europe,” she relates advances of the movement, grouping states which granted municipal, school and full suffrage from 1870-1890, 1890-1910 and 1910-1916. She concludes:
President Wilson is reported as saying to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt that no other movement has ever progressed so fast. At all events, the tendency toward equal rights for women is world wide; and the trend of events is all one way.
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