Twelve Reasons Why Women Should Vote.
Small Leaflet: "Twelve Reasons Why Women Should Vote" (2 copies). Harrisburg: N.W.S. Publishing Co., Inc.; Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association, [ND, but ca. 1915].
Leaflet: 4-7/8” x 7"; (2): 5-1/4" x 7"; printed, one side, on beige stock.; union slug present on both leaflets; (1) lacking small shallow piece from lower left edge (not affecting text), generally very good; (2) creased along lower right margin; nick to right edge; 1-1/2" closed tear (a shallow curving tear from edge) at left margin (not affecting text); lower right corner chewed; about very good.
The body of the two leaflets is the same: "BECAUSE" followed by 12 reasons why women should be enfranchised ("those who obey the laws should help to choose those who make the laws," "laws affecting children should include the woman's point of view as well as the man's," etc. The leaflet is probably a variation on the leaflet printed as part of the Rainbow Series entitled "The Woman's Reason: Because." The two leaflets vary slightly in format. (1) also includes the legend, "VOTE FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE / GIVE THIS TO A FRIEND AND ASK HIM TO VOTE FOR IT" and the imprint of the National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co. (2) simply bears the imprint of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association. The leaflet confirms that state affiliates often obtained material from the NAWSA and reprinted them locally with their imprint. The legend "Vote for Woman Suffrage" undoubtedly refers to the 1915 Pennsylvania referendum on woman suffrage.
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