The Opelousas courier., 1894-12-08
WHERE WOMEN HAVE SUFFRAGE
Taken All in All, They Cut Quite a Figure
In the Worlds Politics.

WHERE WOMEN HAVE SUFFRAGE
Taken All in All, They Cut Quite a Figure
in the Worlds Politics.
The countries of the world where
women already have some suffrage
have an area of rel eighteen million
square miles and their population is
over three hundred and fifty million.
In Great Britain women vote for all
elective officers except members of par
lament.
In France the women teachers elect
women members on all boards of edu-
cation.
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 suf-
frage.
In Ireland the women vote for the
harbor boards, poor law guardians, and
in Belfast for municipal officers.
In Russia women householders vote
for all elective officers and on all local
matters.
In Finland they vote for all elective
officers.
In Austria Hungary they vote, by
proxy. for all elective officers.
In Croatia and Dalmatia they have
the privilege of doing SO in local cleo
lions 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 col
ony settles. The Russians are %coloniz-
ing the whole of their vast Asian pos
sessions and carrying with them every
where the mir" or self-governing
village, wherein women who are heads
of households are permitted to vote.
Women have municipal suffrage in
Cape Colony, which rules a million
square miles.
Municipal woman suffrage rules In
New Zealand. and, I think, at parlia-
mentary elections.
Iceland, in the North Atlantic; the
Isle of Man between England and Ire
land:) and Pitcairn island, in the South
Pacific, have full woman suffrage.
In the Dominion of Canada women
have municipal suffrage in every prov
ince and also in the northwest terri
tories. In Ontario they vote for all
elective officers, except in the election
Of the members Of the legislature and
parliament.
In the United States twenty-eight
states and territories have given wom-
en- some form Of suffrage.
School suffrage in various degrees is
granted to women in Arizona, Colo
RADIO, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, In
diana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachu-
sets, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska,
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 fifty thousand women voted in
1890.
In Montana they vote on all local
taxation.
In New York they can and do vote
at school elections. The question of
the constitutionality of the law is still
undecided. They vote also i'll many
places in this state on local improve
ments, such as gas and electric street
lighting, paving. sewerage and muni-
eipal bonds
In Utah women voted until disfran-
chised by the "Edmunds law" when
they promptly organized to demand
its repeal.
In Pennsylvania a law was passed in
1889 under which ons vote on local
improvements by signing or refusing
to sign petitions therefor.
In Wyoming women have voted or
the same terms with men since 1870.
The convention in 1880 to form a state
constitution unanimously inserted a
provision securing them full suffrage.
This constitution was ratified by the
voters at a special election by about
three-fourths majority. Congress re-
fused to require the Acknowledgement
Of women and admitted the state July
10. 1896.
And let it not be forgotten that in
the senate Of the United States, Febru-
airy z, 1889, . select committee reported
in favor of amending the federal con-
stitution SO as to forbid states to make
sex q cause of Acknowledgement. Con-
gress adjourned, however, March 4,
following, without reaching the sub
ject.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Use of Dulcin.
Recent experiments with dulcin, a
new sweet, indicate that more than or
binary care must be exercised in its
use. Dogs upon which experiments
have been made die from blood destruc-
ton, and seem quite sensitive to the
effects Of the drug. Cats die from pa
ralysis OF the brain. as do frogs. Rab-
bits appear to be entirely unaffected