9 points
His point is that other priorities exist first which was a common sentiment at the time for poor suffrage vote, it was pretty common to want the wealthy to gain suffrage votes but not the poor.
It’s fucked up yes but given the other positions at the time it’s certainly the lesser evil but not free of sin if that makes sense.
2 points
To be a devils advocate, if you replace the word poor with uneducated, we have seen the consequences of those people being manipulated for votes in the current day.
Keeping poor women uneducated probably created a real perception that they were unqualified as voters, and in some cases, that may have been true.
Of course, the way to remedy that is to fund good education for everyone, not restrict people’s right to vote.
