The repellant impression made upon men by the suffragists' misstatements and personal abusiveness was deepened by their support of militancy and feminism. As to the unethical character of the latter, Mrs. Foxcroft's essay in this book presents startling and irrefutable testimony. As to militancy, it may be said that this furnished the most glaring (though not the only) evidence of the evil effect of political activity on women. Much is usually made of the fact that Mrs. Pankhurst and her accomplices in crime destroyed a large amount of valuable property. But the greatest injury she and her American idolizers did was to lower man's ideal of woman. They tried to make the virago a heroine. They did not succeed; but the more Mrs. Pankhurst's apologists glorified her, the more men were determined not to endorse a party that tempted women to abandon real womanliness for mock masculinity.
Ernest Bernbaum
Cambridge, Mass.
February, 1916
N. B.—
To prevent misunderstanding, it should be said that though the following essays represent in general the views of Massachusetts anti-suffragists, the responsibility for the facts and opinions given in the various essays rests with the individual writers alone.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| INTRODUCTION—ERNEST BERNBAUM | [ix] | |
| Who the Massachusetts Anti-suffragists Are | [21] | |
| Mrs. John Balch | ||
| ESSAY | ||
| [I] | Suffrage Fallacies | [24] |
| Mrs. A. J. George | ||
| [II] | The Ballot and the Woman in Industry | [31] |
| Mrs. Henry Preston White | ||
| [III] | A Business Woman's View of Suffrage | [38] |
| Edith Melvin | ||
| [IV] | Some Practical Aspects of the Question | [43] |
| Ellen Mudge Burrill | ||
| [V] | How Massachusetts Fosters Public Welfare | [53] |
| Monica Foley | ||
| [VI] | Massachusetts Compared With Suffrage States | [62] |
| Catherine Robinson | ||
| [VII] | Woman Suffrage and War | [67] |
| Mrs. Charles P. Strong | ||
| [VIII] | Woman Suffrage vs. Womanliness | [77] |
| Mrs. Thomas Allen | ||
| [IX] | Are Suffragists Sincere Reformers | [81] |
| Mrs. Augustin H. Parker | ||
| [X] | Suffrage and the School Teacher | [85] |
| Elizabeth Jackson | ||
| [XI] | Suffrage and the Social Worker | [90] |
| Dorothy Godfrey Wayman | ||
| [XII] | Woman Suffrage a Menace To Social Reform | [98] |
| Margaret C. Robinson | ||
| [XIII] | The Anti-suffrage Ideal | [118] |
| Mrs. Herbert Lyman | ||
| [XIV] | The True Function of the Normal Woman | [123] |
| Mrs. Horace A. Davis | ||
| [XV] | The Imperative Demand Upon Women in the Home | [128] |
| Mrs. Charles Burton Gulick | ||
| [XVI] | Suffrage and the Sex Problem | [135] |
| Mrs. William Lowell Putnam | ||
| [XVII] | Suffrage a Step Toward Feminism | [141] |
| Lily Rice Foxcroft | ||
| Important Anti-Suffrage Publications | [153] | |