Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-17
Atisfellaaeons &eaaing.
WHERE WOMEN HAVE SUFFRAGE.

women already have some suffrage
have an area of over $4,000, 900 square
miles and their population is over $780,
100000.
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 edu-
cation.
In Sweden women vote for all elec-
tive officers except representatives
also, indirectly for members of the
house of lords.
In Norway they have school suff-
rage.
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 elec-
tions in person.
IN Italy women vote for members of
parliament.
In the Madras presidency and the
Bombay presidency (Hindostan) the
women exercise the right of suffrage
in all municipalities.
In all countries of Russian Asia they
can do whatever Russian colony set
ties. The Russians are colonizing the
whole of their vast Asian possessions
and carrying with them everywhere
the "mir," or selfgoverning village,
wherein women who are heads of
households are permitted to vote.
Women have municipal suffrage in
Cape Colony, which rules 100000
square miles.
Municipal woman suffrage rules in
New leland, 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 Northwest terri
tories. In Ontario they vote for all
elective officers, except in the election
of members in the legislature and
parliament.
In the United States % States and
territories have given women some
form of suffrage.
School suffrage in various degrees
is granted to women in Arizona, Colo
RADIO, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho,
Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachu-
setts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New
York, North 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 municipals.
In Kansas they have equal suf-
frage with men at all municipal elec-
tions. About $4,000 women voted in
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 coustitutionality of the law is still
undecided. They vote also in many
places in that State on local improve
iect.-Political Progress.
mene, such as gas and electric street
lighting, paving, sewerage and num-
cipal bonds.
In Utah women voted until disfran-
chised by the Edmunds law, when
they promptly organized to demand its
repeal. =,
In Pennsylvania 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 1871.
The convention of 1889 to form State
constitution unanimously inserted a
provision securing them full suffrage.
This constitution was ratified by the
voters at q special election by about
three-fourths majority. Congress re-
fused to require the disfranchisement
of women and admitted the State July
10, 1890.
And letit not be forgotten that in the
senate of the United States, February
7, 1889, a select committee reported
in favor of amending the Federal con-
stitution so as to forbid States to make
sex q cause of disfranchisement. Con-
gress adjourned, however, on March
1, following without reaching the SUBJ
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