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I'm personally very sceptical to repealing the poll tax; what prospective voters who can't pay it could possibly understand anything of politics? Their votes would just be bought by corrupt politicians promising them better wages. Socialism would blossom and pull down everything we've built to feed the uneducated masses.
But at least the proposition for giving women the vote didn't pass; can you imagine what the nation would look like if they made up half the electorate? We wouldn't be able to win a single war from well-meaning pacifism! To say nothing of the fact that it might bring about further unhealthy ideals about equality with other groups.
Liberal moves like this make me doubt the Republic; how mustn't the Tsar, the Kaiser and the King laugh at our United States!