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anti-suffragist primary sources
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nk people objected or opposed women getting the right

document b: letter to congress from the cambridge branch of the massachusetts anti-suffr
association
miss alberta m. houghton, treasurer
mrs. frank foxcroft, chairman
mrs. charles b. gulick, secretary
cambridge branch
of the
massachusetts anti-suffrage association
cambridge, mass., february 15 1918
to the senate and house of representatives of the united states:
the cambridge branch of the massachusetts anti-suffrage association, including in its membership more than 1,400 women of voting age, and representing a membership of 36,761 in the state at large, respectfully petitions your honorable bodies not to give your approval to the proposed woman suffrage amendment to the federal constitution.
we believe that the basis of the suffrage should be determined by each state for itself; and that it should not be changed except by the votes of the qualified electors of each state.
in view of the fact that the eleven states which, during the last four years, have rejected suffrage amendments to their constitutions, have a combined population nearly five times as large as the combined population of the eleven double-suffrage states, we hold that it would be wrong to sanction a measure, the avowed purpose of which is to enable the minority to override the majority, and to do this without submitting this revolutionary change to the voters in any state.
believing that we express the views of the vast majority of american women, we ask you to vote against the proposed amendment.
chairman.
secretary.

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