Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-02-08
EQUAL SUFFRAGlSTS
Advocates of the Nights of Women
to Meet Here Wednesday.
REPORTED PROGRESS OF my. MEN
Miss Anthony's Add ng Faith il
Ultimate Success OF Cause.
ST ATT S TICAL SHOWING

Fifty years is a long time to work for one
object and then be able to see only the
! merest shadow of success breaking the no
rizon, yet that is the length OF time tn,
pioneers of the woman's suffrage caust
have been laboring in its behalf, and il
their flag the blue field bears just four starr
-four bright yellow stars they are-show-
ing the states that give woman equal priv
ileges with men at the ballot boxes. II
hope did not spring eternal in the hu-
man breast these women, whose once dark
hair is now a snowy crown. must long ago
have given up the seemingly unequal fight.
I'VE shall win; If not in our time and gen
| Grafton. then in another We plant and wa
ter, and posterity shall have the benefit.
for L tell you our labors are not in vain,
said Miss Anthony not long ago. And then
she went on to show how the cause had
gained.
"Sixty-fve years ago no woman could
vote for any cause anywhere. The idea of
woman'S suffrage was new, and the senti-
ment against it was very strong. 1t was
discussed with acrimony and heeped with
ridicUle and bitter denunciatlOn. ReSpecta-
bic women blushed when woman suffrage
meeting was mentioned and if any attend
ed they did SO in fear and trembling. We
were outcasts, pariahs, scoffed at in the
streets, Jeered by men in our meetings, and
unkindly treated by our own personal
friends who called wildly visionary.
Il am an old woman now at the evening
time of my labors. When my hands arc
still l will know that younger ones have
taken up the reins and that the work that
Eliza beth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott,
Eunice Newton Foote, Mary Livermore,
Isabella Beecher Hooker and all those
other good women took up so long ago will
go right on reaping results. 1t has taken
the seed long time to sprout, but it was
good seed and 1t will grow"
Miss Anthony is no longer able to be in
the field, but her work for the cause in
which she is interested goes right on,
through the medium of pen and counsel
She will be in Washington to attend the
meeting of the National Suffrage Associa-
ton next Wednesday, being the thirty
fourth one in which she has been the domi-
mating power.
Progress of Suffrage Movement.
The question of the expediency of women
voting exactly men do, and Of holding
all constitutional and municipal offices, has
been settled by four states, Wyoming, Colo
RADIO. Utah and Idaho. All the states and
territories except fifteen have extended
some form of suffrage either school or mu-
nicipal. Oddly enough the first school suf-
frage in the United States, and the first
crumb of suffrage ever given to women.
came from the conservative south. before
the agitation Of the question had really
commenced. Kentucky gave school suffra ge
to widows in 1896. In 1859 Ontario gave all
women school suffrage. Kansas followed
with school suffrage for women in her con-
stitution when the state was admitted into
the Union in 1861 From the statistics
shown by the president of the national or
ganization, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. 1t
would seem that the suffrage sentiment has
been steadily growing.
New South Wales gave women municipal
Cl1ff r.,c vl n In h.
opened little wider. England gave mu-
nicipal suffrage to single women and wild
ows, Victoria gave municipal suffrage to
all women, both married and single, and it
was in that year that Wyoming PLACED men
and women upon common basis as voters
and office holders
In 1871 Australia gave municipal suffrage
to women. School suffrage was granted in
1878 by Michigan and Minnesota: in 1875
by Colorado; in 1877 by New Zealand; in
1878 by New Hampshire and Oregon: in
1879 by Massachusetts; in 1850 by New
York and Vermont. In 1880 South Austria
liza gave municipal suffrage to women
Single Women and Widows.
In 1881 municipal suffrage was extended
to single women and widows in Scotland
Nebraska came to the front with school
suffrage for women in 1885,. and Ontario
and Tasmania gave them municipal suf-
frage in 1884. Ontario had tried women on
school suffrage for twenty-five years. and
found that it worked all rign, so gave
them broader privileges. In 1855 Wisconsin
gave women school suffrage. In 1856 New
Zealand and New Brunswick gave them
municipal suffrage, and Washington state
school suffrage
the women Of Kansas, Nova Scotia and
Manitoba, and school suffrage in North and
South Dakota, Montana, Arizona and New
Jersey. In that same year Montana gave
a Una v no fhn riera+ 70
all questions submitted to the taxpayers
In 1888 England gave women county suf-
frage, and British Columbia and the North
west Territory gave them municipal suf-
frage. In 1889 county suffrage was given
to the women Of Scotland, and municipal
suffrage to single women and widows in
the province of Quebec. In 1891 school suf-
frage was granted women in Illinois, In
1888 school suffrage was granted in Con-
necticut, and full suffrage in Colorado and
New Zealand.
School suffrage was granted IN Ohio in
1894, and the same year a limited suffrage
in Iowa and parish and district suffrage in
England to both married and single women
were conceded. In 1895 full suffrage was
granted in South Australia to women both
married and single. This country had tried
municipal suffrage for women for fifteen
years. In 1896 full suffrage was grs nted in
Utah and Idaho.
In 1898 the women of Ireland won the
right to vote for all offices eXcept members
of parliament; Minnesota gave women Inc
right to vote for library trustees: French
women engaged in commerce were given
the right to vote for judges OF the tribunals
of commerce, and Louisiana gave taxpav-
ing women the right to vote upon all qies-
tions submitted to the taxpayers. IN 1890
West Australia, which in 1871 had given
women municipal suffrage. granted them
full parliamentary suffrage. Norway has
granted municipal suffrage to taXpaying
women.
Growth in the United States.
That the sentiment is growing in the
United States is shown by the statistics of
voting for and against the proposition to
grant full suffrage. There are five states
in which the woman suffrage amendme nj
has been twice submitted to the voters at
SUCH AN UNUsUA
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