Facts for Busy Women.
Livingston, Deborah Knox. Small broadside: “Facts for Busy Women." [Evanston, Illinois: National W.C.T.U., ca. 1915].
Small broadside: 5-3/16" x 9-5/16"; printed black on off-white stock; folded once; some offsetting along right and bottom margins; two tiny nicks to edges; very good.
Repeating the phrase "Do you know," Livingston recites statistics regarding women in professions, emphasizing "these women need the ballot in their professions and in their trades? Some of them have it, but all of them need it." She points out that in states where women votes, laws have been passed raising the age of consent and curbing the sale of liquor. Lastly, she emphasizes "the ballot is the most direct means to secure the reforms which society is seeking today in the abolition of the drink traffic, the traffic in women, the exploiting of children in industrial life, and the securing of equal pay for equal work?" Deborah Knox Livingston headed up the W.C.T.U.'s "Department of Franchise" and wrote a corresponding leaflet entitled "Facts for Busy Men." While the W.C.T.U. involved itself in the campaign to enfranchise women, we have encountered relatively few suffrage leaflets or broadsides printed by the W.C.T.U. The broadside adopts a format widely used in NAWSA broadsides and leaflets (the repetition of a phrase, followed by a limited number of crucial points) during this period.
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