“Watch Her Grow”

The text below lays out the states that have already granted full or partial suffrage, those where a vote for suffrage was then open to the public, and those where it is before a state legislature. Explains that women’s votes already determine one-seventh of the electoral votes in presidential contests.

“States in America where women have full Suffrage: Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Washington, California, Oregon, Kansas, Arizona, Alaska. … In Presidential elections the total Electoral Vote is 531; the Electoral Vote in the Equal Suffrage States is 55, or nearly one-seventh of the total. Countries where women have full suffrage: Australia, New Zealand, Burmah, Tasmania, Isle of Man, Norway, Finland, Bosnia”    

When we think about the United States today, we don’t imagine a nation under the Constitution of 1787. Our Constitution includes the Bill of Rights, the reconstruction amendments abolishing slavery, declaring Equal Protection under the law, and giving voting rights (at least to black men), and the 19th Amendment (women’s suffrage).

★ “Watch Her Grow,” Broadside. Boston: The Woman’s Journal, 1913. Printed with union bug on bottom, signifying that all aspects of the labor, from typesetting to finishing, were performed by union labor.  #21885