National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) pamphlet on how woman suffrage improves children's health.
Cover editorial cartoon by Rose O'Neill. Originally published in
The Woman Voter, May 1916.
Text excerpts:
"300,000 babies die every year in the United States before they are one year old.
The death of a baby in at least 50 per cent. of the cases is due to
preventable causes.Five times as many babies die in crowded tenement districts as in a well-to-do quarter of a city. Lack of air and sunshine, poor food, bad sanitation, overwork of the mothers, both before and after marriage, above all
ignorance on the part of the
mother, are responsible for most of these deaths....
Isn't it evident that when mothers are represented in govenment and their opinions and interests are consulted, babies have a better chance? Isn't it proved that women with the ballot do
not neglect their home and babies?
Giving the
ballot to
women not only
helps them to
do their
own work more
effectively, but
actually increases the
wealth of the
nation."