22 Metaphors for suffrage

Suffrage in municipal elections for property holders who could read, and had never been connected with crime, was the place to strike for the ballot.

LIBERTY, FRATERNITY, AND EQUALITY, the trinity of modern democracy, and which first found expression as a political creed in the French Revolution, of which the first term is now held to require definition, the second to have only a sentimental basis, and the third to be in violation of the fact of things; universal suffrage is the expression of it politically.

Woman suffrage was the target for the combined wit and satire of the company, and, after four hours of uninterrupted sharpshooting, pyrotechnics, and laughter, we dispersed to our several abodes, fairly exhausted with the excess of enjoyment.

Universal manhood suffrage, that is, the right of all male citizens over 21 years of age to vote, is the rule, though in eight States paupers have no vote, and in a few, a certain amount of education is required (generally enough to read the State constitution).

Once a year every poll I explore, Honest voting is Greenland to me; Free suffrage is ever my motto, To my amnesty judges agree.

Universal suffrage is the centre of the discussion, and the argument against it is twofold.

If the 'dogma' of universal suffrage means the assertion that all men who have votes are thereby made identical with each other in all respects, and that universal suffrage is the one condition of good government, then, and then only, is his attack on it valid.

In the House Mr. Underwood, Democratic minority leader, took the stand that suffrage was purely a State issue.

The suffrage which is the sovereignty is this great primary law-making power.

As SHAKSPEARE was on the point of saying, "Suffrage is the badge of all our tribe.

"Suffrage for black men will be all the strain the Republican party can stand," said another.

Woman suffrage is not necessarily a reform; it is a necessary step in evolution.

Up to this time the suffrage was a theory, an academic question of right and justice.

America is the only country under the sun in which there is self-government,a government which purely represents the wishes of the people, where universal suffrage is not a mockery.

As woman suffrage was not a party question, we hoped that all parties would favor the measure; that we might, at last, have one green spot on earth where women could enjoy full liberty as citizens of the United States.

" Cardinal Gibbons, in a letter to the National League for the Civic Education of Womenan anti-suffrage organisationsaid that "woman suffrage, if realised, would be the death-blow of domestic life and happiness" (Nov. 2, 1909).

Certainly universal suffrage was a most unfortunate measure to take from America and apply to France, but it has been taken and now must stay.

If they had accepted Mr. Asquith's pledge of two years ago and thanked him for it and helped him redeem it, woman suffrage by now would be an accomplished fact.

It is claimed by some that the suffrage is an inherent natural right, and by others that it is merely a privilege extended to the individual by society in its discretion.

I know that it is said that the suffrage is a privilege to be extended by those who have it to those who have it not.

Strictly universal suffrage is a Utopian dream wherever a majority of the people are wicked and degraded.

1915The best line of goods shown by the leading anti-suffrage houses this spring is the statement that woman suffrage is the same thing as free love.

22 Metaphors for  suffrage