Bisbee daily review., 1903-01-24
ABOUT EQUAL SUFFRAGE,
Gains Have Been Made Since Move
 rcenf Started

Gains Have Been Made Since Move rnent Started
 Few except those who have made a special study of the question realize how fast the equal suffrage movement | is gaining. On this point the New York Progress gives the following: Seventy years ago women could not vote anywhere. In 1888. Kentucky gave school suffrage to widows Tn 1850. Ontario gave it to women both married and single. In 1861. Kansas gave it 10 all women. In 1867. New South Wales gave women municipal suffrage In 1869. England gave mu- nicipal suffrage to single women and widows. Victoria gave it to women both married and single. and Wyom- ing gave full suffrage to all women. In 1871 West Australia gave munic- ipal suffrage 10 women. School suf- frage was granted in 1875 by Michi- gan and Minnesitoa. in 1876 by Colo rado. in 1877 by New Zealand. in 1878 by New Hampshire and Oregon. in 1879 by Massachusetts. in 1880 by New York and Vermont In 1880 !, South Australia gave municipal suf- frage to women.
 In 1881. municipal suffrage was ex- ] tended to the single women and wid- ows of Scotland Nebraska gave wo-
 men school suffrage in 1883 Ontario
 and Tasmania gave them municipal | suffrage in 1884. and Wisconsin gave
 them school suffrage in 1885. In 1886.
 municipal suffrage was given in New
 Zealand and New Brunswick.
 In 1887. municipal suffrage was | granted in
 Manitoba. and school suffrage in
 North and South Dakota. Montana
 Arizona and New Jersey. In the same
 year. Montana gave tax paying wo-
 men the right to vote upon all ques-
 tions submitted to the tax payers. | In 1888. England gave women coun-
 try suffrage. and British Columbia and
 the Northwest Territory gave thfm
 municipal suffrage. In 1889. county suffrage was given to the women of l Scotland, and municipal suffrage to | single women and widows in the Prov
 ince of Quebec. In 1891. school suf- i frage was granted in Connecticut. and
 fuli suffrage in Colorado and New
 Zealand. Tn 1894, school suffrage was
 granted in Ohio, limited municipal
 suffrage in Iowa, and parish and dis 1 N4iOI sum oSS III bHSlduu 10 women
 both married and single In 1895. full
 suffrage was granted in South Austra-
 lia to women both married and single.
 In 1896. full suffrage was granted in
 Utah and Idaho.
 In 1898, the women of Ireland were given the right to vote for all officers
 except members of parliament: Min
 nesota gave women the right to vote
 for library trustees; Delaware gave
 tax paying women school suffrage: ! France gave women engaged in com
 merce the right to vote for judges Of the tribunals of commerce: and Lou lsiana gave tax paying women the right to vote upon all questions sub mitted to the tax payers. In 1900. West Australia granted full parlia-
 mentary suffrage to women both mar ried and single.
 In 1901. New York gave tax paying
 women in all the towns and villages
 of the state the right to vote on ques-
 tions of local taxation. Norway gave
 them municipal suffrage. and the Kan
 sas legislature voted down almost
 unanimously, and amid ripple of
 amusement" a proposal to real munic. ipal suffrage
 In 1902, the full national suffrage was granted to all the women of Fed
 eFated Australia; and the New Hamp
 shire Constitutional convention has