The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-10
NATIONAL woMAN'S
 SUFFRAGE MEETS IN NEW ORLEANS.
Miss Griffin Among Prominent
 Sneakers.

alton will meet in New Orleans anu hoiu its thirty fifth annual convention begin ming on the 18th of this month. The meet ings are to be held in the Athenaeum. and the St. Charles Hotel VII pc tne headquarters of this branch of progress sive and sometimes aggressive women' who are the followers of Susan $. An thony, Susan B. Anthony. who has asked so much for women in her life or elghty years, and who has gotten all she asked excepting in most States-the offensive ballot.I In New Orleans a few days ago l had the pleasure of meeting MISS Jean Gordon, the young, beautiful ana ex- tremely womanly President of the Era Club Cthe local womon's suffrage club Of New Orleans), and she introduced me to a very prominent woman's suffrage wo- man, Mrs. Fergerson Mrs. FergerSon warmly extended her hand, saying: Mrs. de Cottes I am glad to meet you-you are a suffragist?"
 When I answered "No," she withdrew her hand, in most unfriendly manner.
 An" I said, then, Mrs Fergerson, you won't even shake the hand of woman who is not working with you! How do you. then, hope to make converts? l would-perhaps be woman's suffragist, if it were not that l am too lazy a Wo- man. I don't want to vote; don want any rights that bring responsibilities. But I may say this to you--it is coming-al- most all you have asked has come It has coms through man-and the rest will come through him. When the nnisnlng touch Is gwen and we use the ballot II will be because man has decided to give the privilege to woman. not because Wo- man has demanded 1t of him."
 Among the prominent speakers at this convention in New Orleans will be Miss Frances Griffin of Montgomery, State President for Alabama of the National Womans Suffrage Association.
 | Other prominent speakers will be: Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the Association; Rev. Anna Anna | H. Shaw Vice-President: Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, noted author and lec- turer; Miss Margaret Haley of Chicago, who has recently brought millions into l the city treasury through her fight which 1 forced the rich corporations to pay thelr | taxes they had for years been evading; l Ida Husted Harper. Miss Anthony's biog- rapher; Rachel Foster Avery. for twenty years corresponding secretary Of the Ma tional Association; Frances Griffin of Yer | bena, Ala. Belle Kearney, author and lec- turer from Flora, Miss; pr. Julia Holmes | Smith, scientific writer and lecturer oi Chicago; Dr. Cora Smith Eaton, promi. | nent physician of Minneapolis; Catherine | Waugh McCulloch, lawyer in Chicago Rev. Ida H. Hultin, Unitarian minister in Boston; Winifred Cooley Of Granc | Rapids, Maud Wood Park of Boston. pr | Marie Jenney, Unitarian minister of Des | Moines, and others.
 | What the work of these women has ac' complished is shown From the record oi the fruit of their labor. Seventy years ago women could not vote anywhere. IT 1888 Kentucky gave school suffrage tc widows, and from that time to the pres ont the cause has been slowly but surely gaining ground until the present wher about a million and a quarter of womer now possess full suffrage, in many diff ferent parts of the English-speakinC world. In some they have had it for 2 generation. In 1850 Ontario gave schoo suffrage to women, both married and sin gle. In 1861 Kansas gave school suffrage to all women. In 1867 New South Walei gave women municipal suffrage. In 1S6 England gave municipal suffrage to sin
 gle women and widows. Victoria gave |
 to women, both married and single, anC Wyoming gave full suffrage to all women
 In 1871 West Australia gave municipa suffrage to women. School suffrage wal granted in 1875 by Michigan and Mime
 sota, in 1876 by New Hampshire and Ore
 gon, in 1879 by Massachusetts, in 1880 by
 New York and Vermont. In 1880 Soutf Australia gave municipal suffrage to wo
 men.
 In 1881 municipal suffrage was extended
 to the single women and widows of Scot
 land. Nebraska gave women school sui
 frage in 1883, Ontario and Tasmania gav' them municipal suffrage in North anC South Dakota, Montana, Arizona anC
 New Jersey. In the same year Montana
 gave taxpaying women the right to vot
 upon all questions submitted to the tax
 payers.
 In 1888 England gave women count!
 suffrage, and British Columbia and tn
 Northwest Territory gave them municipa
 suffrage. In 1889 County suffrage wa
 given to the women of Scotland an'
 municipal suffrage was granted in Hi
 nois In 1893 school suffrage was grantee
 In Connecticut and full suffrage in Colo
 rado and New Zealand. In 1894 schoo
 suffrage was granted in Ohio, bond suf
 frage in Iowa, and parish and distric
 suffrage in England to women. both mar
 ried and single. In 1895 full suffrage wa
 both married and single. In 1896 full sui
 frage was granted in Utah and Idaho.
 In 1898 the women of Ireland were give
 the right to vote for all officers excep
 members of Parliament. Minnesota gay women the right to vote for library trus
 tees; France gave women enga ged in com
 merce the right to vote for Judges of tn
 Tribunals of Commerce. and Ilouisian gave taxpaying women the right to vot ! mon ali questions submitted to the tax s navers. In 1900 West Australia grante l fuIl parliamentary suffrage to womer
 both married and single.
 In 1901 New York gave taxpaying wo