Have We a Democracy?
Fitzgerald, Susan. Leaflet: "Have We a Democracy?" New York City: National American Woman Suffrage Association, [c. 1915].
Leaflet: 7 x 6-3/8"; printed on off-white stock (both sides); upper left foretip lacking; some rumpling; narrow triangular browned area at the left margin (front); darkening along upper margin (reverse); about very good.
Susan Walker Fitzgerald (b. 1871) served as the secretary of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association (1907-1910), the corresponding secretary for the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association (1911-1912), and recording secretary for the NAWSA (1911-1912). In 1912 she, with Anna Howard Shaw and Mrs. Harriet Laidlaw, spoke at a hearing on woman suffrage held by a joint congressional committee. She wrote four of the Rainbow fliers and "Woman in the Home" as well as "Have We a Democracy" (also entitled, "What Is a Democracy?") Fitzgerald points out that since men do not constitute the "whole people" the United States does not have a true democracy. Women in comfortable circumstances deny the vote to women who need it to protect themselves and their families. She sees woman suffrage as strengthening the vote of the workingman and it is that, she suggests, which causes many to oppose the enfranchisement of women. (Franklin, p. 173. Woman’s Who’s Who Of America 1914-1915, p. 294.)
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