Suffrage, should women have it? That was the question that was being asked throughout Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The women's suffrage debate was not new; its roots were in the 1830's and 1840's by the Chartists. The Chartists original women's suffrage was unsuccessful. But it did not die. It laid low until the movement could have more support. That time came, and like most debatable issues women's suffrage had people that were for and against it. Both sides had good strong points to support their issue. Let's look into these issues in depth so they can be better understood. .
First, the anti-suffrage side shall be discussed and analyzed. One of the anti-suffrage's stronger arguments was based around the fact that there was over one-million more women then men in 1911 in England. A newspaper article on an Anti-Suffrage Society meeting reported that a participant, Mr. Maconochie, objected to women's suffrage because of this fact. (Document 11) This man thought this because allowing women to vote could throw off the entire balance of power because women would most likely vote differently than men. This sudden tilt in power could effectively throw the governments steadiness out of whack. Women were backing this argument too. A female leader of an anti-suffrage league, Lady Musgrave, said "Put not this burden upon us." (Document 10) In saying this, she meant that women as a whole should not want to vote because they will be blamed for the world's problems, by society. .
However, the anti-suffrage supporters had an even stronger argument up their collective sleeve. this argument was women just started getting involved in politics and were inexperienced in the ways of politics. Mary Humphrey Ward stated that the world was a much more dangerous and complex place than it was when the women's suffrage became popular forty years before. She went on to say these problems of men should not be interfered with by women that had no past experience with these problems.
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