1. Because no woman will leave her domestic duties to vote.
2. Because no woman who may vote will attend to her domestic duties.
3. Because it will make dissension between husband and wife.
4. Because every woman will vote as her husband tells her to.
5. Because bad women will corrupt politics.
6. Because bad politics will corrupt women.
7. Because women have no power of organization.
8. Because women will form a solid party and outvote men.
9. Because men and women are so different that they must stick to
different duties.
10. Because men and women are so much alike that men, with one vote
each, can represent their own views and ours too.
11. Because women cannot use force.
12. Because the militants did use force.
Our Own Twelve Anti-suffragist Reasons
Alice Duer Miller
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