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Gilbert Haugen correspondence on women's suffrage, 1894
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2 sachusetts. What has brought about the change? Woman herself. Through her great love for knowledge, and determined efforts for an education, which has broadened her horizons, as well as mans, she has come to own herself, her home, and all that she can lawfully acquire. You must admit she has proven worthy of her great trust. Why shall she not, since she must pay her taxes, have the right to say how those taxes are to be expended? I feel sure you, or any one who respects women, will say that the average woman is more capable of voting intelligently than the illiterate and perhaps vicious man,who is freely allowed to help make the laws which women and children must abide by. We should have compulsory education in this state. In your native land, if I mistake not, such a law is in full force and so I believe you would favor such a law. Women, and especially mothers, if allowed to vote, would inaugurate many reforms along the educational lines, and
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2 sachusetts. What has brought about the change? Woman herself. Through her great love for knowledge, and determined efforts for an education, which has broadened her horizons, as well as mans, she has come to own herself, her home, and all that she can lawfully acquire. You must admit she has proven worthy of her great trust. Why shall she not, since she must pay her taxes, have the right to say how those taxes are to be expended? I feel sure you, or any one who respects women, will say that the average woman is more capable of voting intelligently than the illiterate and perhaps vicious man,who is freely allowed to help make the laws which women and children must abide by. We should have compulsory education in this state. In your native land, if I mistake not, such a law is in full force and so I believe you would favor such a law. Women, and especially mothers, if allowed to vote, would inaugurate many reforms along the educational lines, and
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