El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-15
Where Women Have Votes
WORK OF SUFFRAGISTS AND ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS
II-Votes for Women.

New York and Wisconsin. Twenty
nine states now give women the right
r to vote in school elections. In Kansas
they vote in municipal and bond cleo
lions, but the last legislature rejected
a bill giving them the full suffrage.
Michigan. Louisiana, New York, Iowa
and Montana, give taxpaying women the
ballot in elections relating TO bond is
sues or tax levies-
Modified Suffrage.
This modified right of suffrage 10
given also in many foreign countries.
including most of the provinces OF
Canada, the Kingdoms of Denmark and
Sweden and the commonwealth of
South Africa. In France women en-
gagged in manufacture or trade have the
right to vote for judges of the courts
of commerce..
In Great Britain, where the woman
suffrage movement is now more active
than in any other part of the world,
women have the right TO vote, subject
to the same restrictions as men, for the
election of all Officers except members
Of parliament This right is very gen.
orally exercised in municipal elections,
and there are several women members
of the London county council, which
is the greatest municipal legislature in
the world.
Finland Politics.
= Women participate more generally in
politics in Finland than in any other
country in the world. The Finnish
women always have been prominent in
commercial and economic enterprises,
and when they demanded political
rights they soon got what they wanted.
The Finnish diet has had a great many
very able women parliamentarians, and
their influence has been positively on
the side of those who have resisted the
Russian attempts to throttle the liberty
of the Firms
1t has been said. and truly, that in
the United States the crusadeofor votes
for women has made very little head
way. This is quite true, but it may be
attributed principally to the lack of
interest upon the part of the women
themselves.
In Massachusetts, and New Jersey.
where woman suffrage once existed.
the women offered no resistance to the
abolition of their right TO vote a CEN
fury ago, and they have manifested
no general desire for a restoration OF
their, old right. In Massachusetts, par
ticularly, they failed to respond when
the legislature left the decision of the
question to a vote of the women them
selves:
Women had the right to vote in the
when that commonwealth was admit
ted to the union as state. But Wash
ingtOn is western state and the wom-
en- always have been active in push
ing their demands for the franchise In
other states the movement is carried
on by very small percentage of the
female population.
In the east and the south vast ma
jority of the women not only remain
in 70 he Of hoi-
cipated sisters, but actually are OPP
posed to the entire movement.
Antisuffragists.
In the United States. as well as in
England. there are active organizations
composed of women who are opposing
the demand of the suffra gists- In Eng
land, Mrs. Humphrey Ward. the novel
ist, is the head and front of the anti
suffragist movement. In the United
States there are noW working anti
suffrage organizations in Massachu-
sets. New York. Maine. Illinois. Ore
gon. Iowa. Rhode Island and the state
Of Washington with such officers in
the New York association as Mrs
Francis VI. Scott, Mrs Arthur NJ Dodge,
Mrs Elihu Root. Mrs. Richard Watson
Glider. Mrs. George Phillips and Miss
Ida H. TarbeIl.
The antisuffragists have collected
Ndld 10 snow InSl the STANDARD OF
morality is no higher, the condition OF
he working women no better, the prog
ress of philanthropy no swifter in the
states granting equal suffrage than il
is in the states where women follow
their more feminine bent and correct
he evils of society through their home
Influence, their clubs and their church
work.
AS early as 1886 a protest was made
by aptisuffrag ists before the select
committee of the senate on woman Suf-
frage- I've believe that God has wise
" andA well adapted each sex to the
proper Performance of the duties of
each We believe that woman suffra sc
would relatively lessen the influence
of the intelligent and the true. and in
crease the influence of the ignorant AMI
vicious, the women wrote.
These are the sentiments of hundreds
of thier families confident that the in
content TO abide al home and leave the
steering of the ship of state TO the men
of their families, confident that the in
fluence of home life is most potent and
having faith in the ports being reached
more safely if they don't NEEDLE with
the steering gear.
Tomorrow-III- The Movement in
England.