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title: '"Votes for Mothers!" (The Suffragist, cover, 13 June 1914)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/votes-for-mothers-suffragist-1914/
description: A worn mother holds a small child on a crowded city street while another child plays with a cat beside an overflowing trash can.
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[!["Votes for Mothers!", 1914 US cartoon: A worn mother holds a small child on a crowded city street while another child plays](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/votes-for-mothers-suffragist-1914.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/votes-for-mothers-suffragist-1914.jpg)

# "Votes for Mothers!" (The Suffragist, cover, 13 June 1914)

A worn mother holds a small child on a crowded city street while another child plays with a cat beside an overflowing trash can. The tell: the picture shows a mother's burden in her own neighbourhood and leaves the link to the vote to the title.

This drawing was made for the cover of The Suffragist, the weekly of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage in Washington, D.C., which appeared on 13 June 1914. It aimed to persuade the US public to support the vote. A worn mother holds a small child on a crowded city street while another child plays with a cat beside an overflowing trash can, under the title "Votes for Mothers!". It is an appeal to emotion: the picture shows a mother's burden in her own neighbourhood and leaves the link to the vote to the title, so pity and concern do the work that an argument would otherwise do.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Appeal to emotion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/appeal-to-emotion/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights

[← "Giddap!" (Puck back cover, 14 March 1914)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/giddap-suffrage-hikers-puck-1914/) [Au Peuple Belge! (von Emmich proclamation, with Allied caption strip) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/emmich-proclamation-au-peuple-belge-1914/)

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