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Aristophanes in ancient Greece and many thinkers since have posited that the mere existence of Woman Suffrage alone would lead to most of our troubles---the breakdown of the family, sexual immorality, socialism and the like. Trace the history of Woman Suffrage and you will find scarce a Jew to be found in all its really import evolutions, from the 17th century to the Representation of the People Act 1918. Besides the chief trouble which is our decline of moral character I find Universal Suffrage to be a far more likely explanation for what is going on than Jews. Thomas Carlyle vehemently predicted that the collapse of our society would result from it. Many men did.

"Not as opponent, but as advocate of women's real rights, I oppose the important and disastrous change in the law, contemplated by Woman Suffrage. I anticipate the social revolution, disruption of domestic ties, desecration of marriage, destruction of the household gods, dissolution of the family, which would result from the political enfranchisement of married women."

James McGrigor Allan (1827 - after 1890), British anthropologist and writer.