Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-03-12
WHERE WOMEN VOTE.
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE MORE
EXTENDED THAN MANY KNOW.

We May as We'll Get Ready For
1t, For It's Coming, Sure.
It's coming, surel
People may argue ON this side or that
of the question, but it looks as if wom-
ans suffrage is bound to come.
The daily press Of the nation is get
ting on the side of woman's suffrage,
and they always manage to get on the
popular side Of every question, right or
wrong
Even the religious papers have ceased
their arguments against the movement
1t is limited that DR.. Buckley of The
Christian Advocate is sitting up nights
trying to think up some scheme whereby
be can prove that he was one Of the
pioneers for woman's suffrage.
Just see where women already have
the ballot:
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 eduoa-
ton.
In Sweden women vote for all elect
i've officers except representatives; also
indirectly for members Of the house Of
lords.
In Norway they have school suffrage
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
tions in person.
In Italy widows vote for members of
parliament.
In the Madras Presidency and the
Bombay Presidency (Hindustan)the wo-
men exercise the right Of suffrage in all
municipalities.
In all the countries Of Russian Asia
they do SO wherever Russian colony
settles. The Russians are oolonizing the
whole Of their vast Asian possessions
and carrying with them everywhere the
mir, or self governing village, where
in women who are heads Of households
are permitted to vote.
Women have municipal suffrage in
Cape Colony, which rules 1000. 900
square miles
Municipal woman suffrage rules in
New Zealand, and I think at parlia-
menary 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
inoe, and also in the Northwest Terri
tories. In Ontario they vote for all elec-
tive officers, except in the election OF
members of the legislature and parlia-
ment.
In the United States 20 states and
territories have given women some form
Of suffrage.
School suffrage in various degrees is
granted to women in Arizona Territory,
Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho,
Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massaohu-
sets, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New
York, North Dakota, Oregon, South Da-
kota, 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 80, 900 women voted in 1890.
In Montana they vote on all local
taxation.
In New York they can and do vote al
school elections The question Of the
constitutionality Of the law is still un
decided. They vote also in many places
in this state on local improvements,
such as gas and electric street lighting,
paving, sewerage and municipal 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 refusing tt
sign petitions therefor.
In Wyoming women have voted Oh
the same terms with men since 1870.
The convention in 1889 to form state
constitution unanimously inserted pro-
vision securing them full suffrage. This
constitution was ratified by the voters al
. special election by about three-fourths
majority. Congress refused to require
the Acknowledgement of women and adj
mitted the state July 10, 1890.
And let it not be forgotten that in
the senate of the United States, Feb. 2,
1889, q select committee reported il
favor OF amending the federal constitu.