Our Common InterestsBy Lena Morrow Lewis(American contemporary. Writer. Speaker. Former member of the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party. Editor “The Seattle Call.”)
By Lena Morrow Lewis
(American contemporary. Writer. Speaker. Former member of the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party. Editor “The Seattle Call.”)
Every argument in behalf of man suffrage applies with equal force to woman suffrage. Men and women have more in common as members of the same species, belonging to the same human family, than they have differences, because of the incident of sex. To deny woman the ballot because of her sex is virtually to repudiate her right and claim as a human being. That a difference does exist between men and women is on the other hand a strong argument in behalf of woman suffrage. The giving of the ballot to woman will not rob man of his just rights. The admission of woman into the political arena will do away with male supremacy, which is injurious to man, breeds tyranny and results in injustice to woman. Justice to woman does not mean injustice to man. Our common interests as human beings, and our differences as men and women both demand political power and social rights for women the same as for men.