Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-03-07
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
WOMEN OF THE WORLD.

Parts of the Globe Where the Right OF
Women to Suffrage Is Recognized-some
Statistics of General Interest.
The spread Of woman suffrage in all
parts of the world has never been more
strikingly shown than by a pamphlet
lately issued by Mr.. Hamilton Wilcox,
the chairman of the State Executive
Committee of the New York Woman
Suffrage party. The pamphlet is a
concise summary of the progress OF the
movement in all civilized countries.
Mr.. Hamilton Wilcox reveals facts
that will astonish both the foes and
friends of mans freedom of ballot. The
general impression that her right to
vote is admitted only in few obscure
localities is shown to be incorrect, and
the fact is revealed that she has the
right of suffrage in some form in over
$4,000, 600 square miles of territory, the
population which amounts to nearly
800, 900, 600 people.
In the large province of Ontario,
which has 100000 square miles, or more
than double the territory of this State,
women vote, unless they are married,
on like terms with their brothers, for
all elective offices save two. In the ad-
joining province of Quebec women are
voters in the cities of Montreal and
Quebec, and various other cities by pro-
vincial law. British Columbia permits
women to vote for all elective offices
except members of Parliament. Cross
ing the border into the United States
we find that Wyoming, with its $4,000
square miles, or greater than the whole
of New England, allows women to vote
for every office for which their brothers
do, and on the same terms Next
comes the startling assertion hat in the
largest of all our States, Texas, women
exercise the right OF suffrage, though
not at the polls. State and school Off
GERS are chosen by petitions to the
county judge for their appointment,
those with the largest petitions being
appointed. Women sign these petit
tions on the same terms as the men, and
thus practically vote without leaving
home. D
In England, Scotland and Wales wo-
men, unless they are married, vote for
all elective officers, except members o
Parliament, on the same terms with
men. In Ireland women vote every
where for poor-law guardians, in Dun
dalk and other seaports for harbol
boards, and in Belfast for all municipal
officers. In Sweden woman suffrage /.
about the same as in Great Britain. II
households vote for all elective officers
and on all local questions. In Austria
Hungary women vote by proxy at al
elections, including members of provin
cial and Imperial Parliaments. Fin
land women vote for all elective Off
GERS, and in Italy and Sardinia widow
vote for members of Parliament II
Asia women taxpayers vote in British
Burmah and in the Presidencies o
Madras and Bombay. Women hav
municipal suffrage at the Cape of Goo
Hope Some of the greatest conquest
for rights OF women have been made il
Australia. Municipal suffrage exist
in New Zealand, and the Legislatur
has decided that women may vote 70
members of Parliament Suffrage ais
exists in Victoria, New South Wales
Queensland and South Australia. Their
are two small Islands, one the Isle G
Man, in British waters, and the othe
Pitcairn Island, in the South Pacific
where women have full suffrage. We
men are alse free to vote in Iceland an
in Tasmania. The islands aroun
Great Britain, the Isle of Wight, tn
Scilly Islands, Holyhead, the Hebrides
Orkneys and Shetlands, are all unde
the common law that gives single We
men and widows the power to vote o
the same terms as men.
''But this is not all For 600 miles, from A
; iantic to Pacific from the G III of ST Lawrent
~ Puget Sound without one gap, stretches
belt of thirty States, Territories and provine,
, where woruol have begun &c exercise soss.c 1:
gree of self-government In every Territol
but one tNew Mexico) some law has been pas
I ed more or less relieving women from disfra
chisement! When the suns rays at Cape Br
a.
, ica they fall on women whom Nova Scotia's iay
, make free; as those beams light up a loi
, range OF communities, they strike but one sp
(Maine) where women are wholly enslave
L and when they fade from the beach of Quet
} Charlotte Islands they bid farewell in sunset
glowing hues to thousands of women who
! British Columbia has enfranchised. This va
l realm is wondrous too for breadth. From Ca
I May to Hudsons Sea, from the Tennessee be
i, der to the Saskatchewan river, from the Ala
kan boundary to the Mexican Gulf reaches II
5 mighty region where woman is in some mea
n ure freel and besides its splendid length
five thousand miles, its great breadth is tV
thousand From the petition vote of Tex
Q school officers, the petition vote for Arkans
r and Mississippi for and against liquor licens
the taxpayers school vote of Vermont Al
: the widows school vote of Kentucky to I
= grees of woman's enfranchisement vary;
everywhere is the principle rejected that new
may woman vote; the iron rule of relentle
Q endless disfranchisem is broken! BehC
a the figures; the facts exceed the power
words"
. A summary of all countries in viii,
. woman suffrage has made some pro
y ress shows that there are 109 State
a Territories and provinces, having
; area of 14,057, $50 square miles, al
y communities numbering 292, ,719, 5
. people, in which the idea is reject
/ that sex is a hopeless bar to freedc
. and self-government and that all W
II men, whatever their genius, must pol
e ically be the slaves of men. In Il
u immense territory law and public Sc
VI timent admit that under some circu