"Question of Fitness" leaflet, The.
Usher, Florence W. Richardson. Leaflet: "The Question of Fitness.” New York: National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1913.
Small leaflet: 6-1/4" x 7"; printed both sides on off-white stock; folded once; various creases; about very good.
Usher suggests that suffrage is an integral part of democracy and as such, "that nearly everybody, adherents and antis alike, feel intuitively that the culmination of the movement is merely a question of time." When localities have restricted suffrage, those deprived of suffrage relocate, resulting "in the elimination of the very life-blood of the community which is DISSIMILARITY of views." That women are different from men is a reason for woman suffrage. Florence Richardson Usher, social worker and suffrage activist, was a leader in the Missouri suffrage organization. She canvassed women door-to-door finding those who supported woman suffrage, campaigned for the establishment of a woman suffrage group in St. Louis, and then helped organize the Missouri State Suffrage Society. OCLC indicates that the pamphlet first appeared in 1910, though notes it in microfilm only. The 1913 printing, according to OCLC, is held by only two institutions. Scarce—neither Krichmar nor Franklin record the leaflet.
Woman's Who's Who Of America, p. 832.
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