Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-01

The suffragist conquests in the island
| continent OF Australia were completed,
when the assembly OF the state OF VIC
toria passed "a bill which granted the
| elective franchise to women upon the
same terms as to men. This means
| that in Victoria, New South Wales
Queensland. South Australia, West
| Australia and Tasmania, as we'll as in
New Zealand, the latter being included
| In the commonwealth, women now
have the right to vote ut municipal,
state and federal elections. Thus this
federation of Great Britains colonies
| stands as the advanced womans
stronghold and beacon light.
| One effect of this victory will be an
additional inspiration for the women
of the United States, and the belief
grows stronger. that equal suffrage
will In some future day be as firmly
established in this country as in the
antipodes. Until this height is reached,
| however those most interested must
admit that the United States IL far
from true republic. In connection
with this subject Mrs Ida Hustled
| Harper in her address at the annual
convention of the National Woman
Suffrage Association, which was re-
Gently held in Portland, Ore, gave
| some facts which do not rebound to
the glory of our so-called great re-
public. She said in part:
"There are forty-two strong reasons
why women cannot vote in the United
States. The first and greatest lies In
the national constitution, and the 9TH
err forty-one are found In the consti-
buttons Of the different states. In these
revered documents one little word OF
four letters. male Is all that stands
between 16, OO0, 900 women and the suf-
frage.
"The religious, the property the ed
ucational and the color qualifications
have been swept away; but in the
constitutions of all the states except
four this word male still remains in
the suffrage clause, absolutely prohibi-
ting to all women voice in the gov
eminent. Such is the situation to-
day in the country which poses before
the world as the greatest and most
perfect republic that ever existed;
which exults over all the nations Of
the earth as the only land OF equal
rights; which declares that its founda-
ton, its corner stone, the keystone of
it's arch, is individual representation.
The irony Of it. The injustice the
tyranny, the disgrace of It,
I'm no monarchy is there such arbi-
trary discrimination against one-half
the people. There Is not another
country having an elected representa-
tive body where this body itself may
not extend the suffrage Australia, by
an act of Parliament, enfranchised
$4,000 women The parliament of
New Zealand by a single act, con-
ferred the suffrage on 100000. The
parliament of Great Britain has alb
solute power to grant the franchise to
It's millions of women. This Is true OF
all the legislative bodies on the contin-
ent OF Europe. But the government O
the united States, in all its over-pow-
erlng desire to vest all authority in tho
people themselves, has placed one-hals
OF the people in complete and help,ess
subJugation to the other half"
Mrs. Catherine Waugh Mcculloc, :
who has been chairman of the Illfno,
reservation of Suffra gists, and is tn
most active worker in Chicago fc
eaual suffrage, has cited fact thu
triumphantly answers the argume~
that the government would 20 to r,,,
II women were given power to her
elect those who run it. She poin.
out that mot one of the men has eve
dared to claim equal suffrage has bee
a failure in New Zealand or in Sout,
Australia, where for some time pa
they have had practical evidence of Il
workings No member of the Austria
ian parliament, however strongly or
posed to suffrage he was, has ever ha
the opportunity to declare that wo,l
ans privilege to vote upon munich
or state questions has not been
benefit South Australia now leads Il
world in the care of children, due sole
~ to the ballots of the women. tt
children's council of that state is
object lesson to every land, in the car
of neglected and defective waits" Tf
new regime in Australia seems also
have exposed another fallacy, tha
women would lose mems respect if the
voted. But it is authoritatively claim
ed that the men in Australia hay
more esteem for women than in ar
other part of the world, simply becaus
this esteem is based upon recognize
of EQUALITY. An Australian woIna
says: IF respect means consideration
can say that we never have had s.
much consideration in our lives from