This volume is often considered the best contemporay source of arguments against the Women's Suffrage Movement. In it, Helen Johnson responded to the common arguments for woman suffrage. She used statistics and anecdotes to demonstrate that women didn't need the vote in order to establish more legal, economic and other equality. She also argued that women's role in her separate, domestic sphere, was essential for maintenance of the American republic.
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Helen Kendrick Johnson (1844 – 1917) was an American writer, poet, and prominent activist opposing the women's suffrage movement. Both Helen and her husband were active in the anti-suffrage movement. From 1894–1896 she was editor of the American Woman’s Journal and founded the Meridian Club in 1886. Rossiter was author of a pamphlet titled, Why Women Do Not Want the Ballot, and in 1897 Helen wrote what is often considered the best summary of the arguments against woman suffrage: Woman and the Republic in which she argued that women didn't need the vote in order to establish more legal, economic and other equality and that women's role in the domestic sphere was essential for maintenance of the American republic. She was openly critical of the writing of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her work The Woman's Bible linking it to radicalism and socialism. During her time as an anti-suffragette activist she addressed several legislative committee in Albany and Washington and wrote many newspaper articles and pamphlets on the subject. In 1910 she founded the Guidon Club, an anti-suffragette organization dedicated to the study of politics and government.
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