The Women's Suffrage Scam

Only a small minority of women had any interest in voting, so how was the 19th amendment passed?

In a previous post, "Meet The Anti-Suffragettes," I mentioned that only a small minority of women in the U.S. wanted the vote. It's difficult to find concrete numbers, mostly because suffragists knew they were in the minority and did not want a referendum. We only know that the vast majority of the public did not support women's suffrage based on membership in Anti-Suffrage groups vs. Pro-Suffrage groups, and some local referendums. You may recall similar conditions during the passage of gay marriage in the U.S. Public referendums repeatedly opposed gay marriage, even in liberal California. But public sentiments were ignored, and gay marriage was passed anyway via the Supreme Court. Only a small minority of American women voiced any support for women's suffrage in the decades leading up to the passage of the 19th Amendment. The average woman didn’t see a need to participate in the electoral process if the head of her household was already participating, but that did not stop the ruling elites from passing suffrage anyway. Who were these people, and what was their motivation to pass such an unpopular measure against uproarious opposition from women themselves?

(Photo: anti-suffrage leaders who took 1200 people up the Hudson for their Decoration Day picnic : L to R: Mrs. George Phillips, Mrs. K. B. Lapham, Miss Burnham, Mrs. Everett P. Wheeler, Mrs. John A. Church., May 30 1913)

Perhaps the largest financier of the women's suffrage movement was Alva Vanderbilt Belmont. She was born Alva Erskine Smith to a wealthy family in  Mobile, Alabama in 1853. Her mother was the daughter of a U.S. congressman, and her father was a successful merchant. In 1875, she married William Kissam Vanderbilt, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt. The Vanderbilts were one of the wealthiest and most influential families in the world at the time, and Cornelius had been a financial supporter of early radical feminists like Victoria Woodhull, an occult practitioner who worked for him as a spirit medium. Cornelius had an affair with Victoria's sister Tennie, who was also a medium and psychic. He funded the two sisters' stock brokerage firm on Wall Street, Woodhull, Claflin, & Co., in 1870. They made millions on the New York Stock Exchange, with newspapers dubbing the sisters "the Bewitching Brokers," due to their purported use of witchcraft and psychic mediumship to make extraordinary trades for themselves and clients like Vanderbilt. They used their new fortune to publish a newspaper, "Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly," which promoted their ideas of free love, sex education, legalization of prostitution, vegetarianism, short skirts, women's right to no-fault divorce, and suffrage. Remember, this is in the 1870's, but it's the same exact agenda of the counter-culture radicals of the 1960's. This is important to note because, as you will see, it's been the same people pushing this agenda for centuries. It's also important to note that William K. Vanderbilt was a founding member of the Jekyll Island Club, which was where representatives of the richest men in the world met secretly in 1910 to draft legislation to establish central banking in America under the Federal Reserve Act.