The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-10-19
Gheil:1emorraf-S Star
WHERE WOMEN HAVE SUFFRAGE.
Taken All In All, They Cut Quite a Fig.
ure In the Worlds Politics.

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women already have some suffrage
have an area of over $1,000, 900 square
miles and their population lis over
$50, 200, 900.
In Great Britain women vote for all
elective officers except members of
parliament.
In France the women teachers elect
women members on all boards Of ed
ucation.
In Sweden women vote for all cleo
tive officers except representatives /:
also indirectly, for members of the
house of lords.
In Norway they have school sutf-
rage.
In Ireland the women vote for the
harbor boards, poor law guardians,
and in Belfast for municipal officers.
In Russia women h~ouseholders vote
for all elective officers and on all To-
cal matters.
In Finland they vote for all elective
officers.
In Austria-lIungary they vote, by
proxy, for all elective officers.
In Croatia and Dalmatia they have
the privilege of doing so in local cleo
tions in person.
In Italy widows vote for members
of parliament.
In the Madras presidency and the
Bombay presidency (Hindoostan) the
women exercise the right of suffrage
in all municipalities.
In all the countries Of Russian Asia
they can do so wherever a Russian
colony settles. The Russians are
colonizing the whole of their vast
Asian possessions, and carrying with
them everywhere the mir" or self
governing village, wherein women
who are heads OF households are per-
mitted to vote.
Women have municipal suffrage IN
Cape Colony, which rules a million
square miles.
Municipal woman suffrage rules in
New Zealand, and, l think, at parlia-
mentary elections.
Iceland in the North Atlantic, the
Isle of mar (between England and
Ireland, and Pitcairn Island, in the
South Pacific, have full woman sutf-
rage.
In the dominion of Canada, women
have municipal suffrage in every
province and also in the Northwest
territories. In Ontario they vote for
all elective officers, except in the
election of members of the legislature
and parliament.
In the United States twenty-eight
States and territories have given
women some form of suffrage.
School suffrage in various degrees is
granted to women in Arizona, COlOra-
do, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho,
Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massa-
chusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Ne
braska, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
New York, North Dakota, Oregon,
South Dakota, Texas, Vermont and
Wisconsin.
In Arkansas and Missouri women
vote by petition, on liquor license in
many cases.
In Delaware suffrage is exercised by
women in several municipalities.
In Kansas they have equal suffrage
with men at all municipal elections.
About $4,000 women voted in 1890.
In Montana they vote on all local
taxation.
In New York they a and do vote
at school elections. The question of
the constitutionality of the law still
undecided. They vote also in many
places in this State on local improve
ments, such as gas and electric street
lighting, paving, sewerage, and mu-
nicipal bonds.
In Utah women voted until dis
franchised by the 'Edmunds law"
when they promptly organized to de-
mand its repeal.
In Pennsylvania a law was passed
in 1889 under which women vote on
local improvements by signing or re-
fusing to sign petitions therefor.
In Wyoming women have voted on
the same terms with men since 1870.
The convention in 1899 to form a
state constitution unanimously in
serted a provision securing them full
suffrage. This constitution was rati-
lied by the voters at a special election
by about three-fourths majority. Con-
gress refused to require the disfran.
chisement of women and admitted
the State July 10, 1890.
And let it not be forgotten that in
the senate of the United States, Feb.
ruary I, 1889, a select committee re.
ported in favor of amending the fed.
eral constitution so as to forbid states
to make a sex a cause of disfran'
chisement. Congress adjourned how
ever, on March 4, following without
reaching the subject.
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and rules with a rod OF iron. Pucl