Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-05-14
PROGRESS OF EQUAL SUFFRAGE

/ movement for women : cducatior
ana property rights has advanced
rapidly. the movement for >uiirag,
has made little or no progress. Or
this point let the hard facts speak
Tor themselves.
Eighty Years ago, women could no.
vote anywhere, except very limi.
rd extent in Sweden and a few Other
places in the old world
/ In lS3S. Kentucky gave school suf
frage to widows with children of
school age. In 1880, Ontario gave il
to women, both married and single
In 1851. Kansas gave it to all women.
In 1867, New South Wales gave wo-
men municipal suffrage. In 1869,
England gave municipal suffrage to
single women and widows. Victoria
gave it to women, both married and
single, and Wyoming gave full suf-
frage to all women.
In 1871. West Australia gave mu-
nicipal suffrage to women. School
suffrage was granted in 1879 by
Michigan and Minnesota, in 1876 by
Colorado, in 1877 by New Zealand,
in 1878 by New Hampshire and Ore
gon, in 1879 by Massachusetts, in
1880 by New York and Vermont.
In 1880, South Australia gave mu-
nicipal suffrage to women.
In 1881, municipal suffrage was ex-
tended to the single women and
widows of Scotland, and Parlia-
mentary suffrage to the women of
the Isle of Man Nebraska gave wo-
men school suffrage in 1888. Mu-
nicipal suffrage was given by On
tario and Tasmania in 1884, and by
New Zealand and New Brunswick in
1886.
In 1887 municipal suffrage was
granted in Kansas, Nova Scotia and
Manitoba, and school suffrage in
North and South Dakota, Montana,
Arizona and New Jersey. In the
same year Montana gave paying
women the right to vote upon all
questions submitted to the taxpay-
erS.
In 1893, England gave women
county suffrage and British Colum-
bia and the Northwest Territory
gave them municipal suffrage. In
1899, county suffrage was given to
the women in Scotland, and mu-
nicipal suffrage to single women and
wido"s in the Province of Quebec.
In 1891, school suffrage was granted
in Illinois.
In 1898 school suffrage was granted
in Connecticut, and full suffrage in
Colorado and New Zealand. In 1894,
school suffrage was granted in Ohio,
bond suffrage in Iowa, and parish
and district suffrage in England to
women, both married and single.
In 1898, full State suffrage was grant
ed South Australia to women, both
married and single. In 1896, full suf-
frage was granted in Utah and Idaho.
In 1893, the women OF Ireland were
given the right to vote for all offices
except members of Parliament; Min
neSOta gave women the right to vote
for library trustees; Delaware gave
school suffrage to tax-paying women;
France gave women engaged in COM
merce the right to vote for judges of
the tribunal of commerce.; and Lou
isiana gave tax-paying women the
right to vote upon all questions SUBJ
mitted to the taxpayers. In 1900,
Wisconsin gave women school suf-
frage, and West Australia granted
full State suffrage to women, both
and single.
In 1901 New York gave tax-paying
women in all towns and villages of
the State the right to vote on ques-
tions of local taxation. Norway gave
them municipal suffrage, and the
Kansas Legislature voted down al
most unanimously and "amid a rip
pie of amusement" a proposal to re-
peal municipal suffrage.
In 1902, full national suffrage was
granted to all the women of fede-
rated Australia, and full State
suffrage to the women of New South
Wales.
In 1903, bond suffrage was granted
to the women of Kansas, and Tas-
mania gave women full State suffrage.
In 1905, Queensland gave women
full state suffrage.
In 1906, Finland gave full national
suffrage to women, and made them
eligible to all offices from members of
Parliament down.
In 1907, Norway gave full parlia-
mentary suffrage to the 100000
women who already had municipal
suffrage, Sweden made women eligi-
BILE to municipal offices, Denmark
gave women the right to vote for
members of boards of public chari-
ties, and to serve on such boards, and
England, with only fifteen dissenting
votes out of the GO members Of the
House of Commons, made women eli
gible as mayors, aldermen and
county and town councillors. The