Was there ever a more hopeless quest?

Title

Was there ever a more hopeless quest?

Description

"What can women offer to offset the influences behind these bodies? They have no money to contribute for party purposes. They represent no constituency and can not pledge a single vote, a situation in which no other class is placed.

They ask men to divide a power of which they now have a monopoly; to give up a sure thing for an uncertainty; to sacrifice every selfish interest-- and all in the name of abstract justice, a word which has no place in politics. Was there ever apparently a more hopeless quest?"

- Ida Husted Harper, 1902

The poster is from Lisa Unger Baskin's extraordinary collection @DukeLibraries. It was probably printed in 1915, when New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut & New Jersey had suffrage referenda on the ballot. Men voted them down in every state.

Creator

Daily Suffragist

Date

Oct 14, 2020

Files

Vote Yes Poster Baskin collection.jpg
Baskin poster thread.png

Citation

Daily Suffragist, “Was there ever a more hopeless quest?,” Daily Suffragist, accessed March 29, 2024, https://dailysuffragist.omeka.net/items/show/530.

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