1. Because man’s place is the armory.

 2. Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise than by fighting about it.

 3. Because if men should adopt peaceable methods women will no longer look up to them.

 4. Because men will lose their charm if they step out of their natural sphere and interest themselves in other matters than feats of arms, uniforms and drums.

 5. Because men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government. 

(“The Latin man believes that giving woman the vote will make her less attractive.”—Anna H. Shaw.)

They must sacrifice their beauty
Who would do their civic duty,
            Who the polling booth would enter,
            Who the ballot box would use;
As the drop their ballots in it 
Men and women in a minute,
            Lose their charm, the antis tell us,
            But—the men have less to lose.