Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-01-14

ing 0uFcrslTy darts.
You have sung of the souls who succeeded,
yOnr iords OF the laureate crown,
With never g gGte of remembrance to the
captains of craft that went down;
But now. to the heroes of failure who
never surrendered nor qualified,
| offer this silent goblet to the unsmg
sOuls-Wha have failed.
ERWIN NELSON,
~O':+O-
The C-owth of Woman Suffrage.
In very striking article entitled The
Leayen 81 Woman Suffrage Around the
World published in The Lippincott's
Magazine, George Allan England says:
Tile average American seems to have
hardly more idea about the magnitude
of this wave elsewhere than he has about
the mountains on the moon, perhaps not
so much. Eor any good telescope will
show those mountains plainly, whereas
the capitalist press as a rue very care
fully suppresseS or distorts and ridcues
the news in re woman suffrage abroad.
The limit Of knowledge Of the average
man hara.y exceeds this: that here Mt
hDme we have four states where univer-
sal suffrage prevails, that there are Wig
uTuus demonstrations now taking place
in England, and that women vote in
New Zealand. Beyond this his informa-
ton is not likely to go, although his
facilc criticism and ridicue might indi-
cate Il broader scope.
AS Il matter of plain fact, that is not
half the story. So rapid is the advance
Of the suffrage wave elsewhere than in
free America, chivalrouS America. that
almost before one can record it in cold
type some other new development turns
up. Let Us just take brief birdseye sur
yey Of the situation as nearly up-to-date
a. we can bring it.
c
about, where women meet men on terms
Of entire political equality at the polls,
and where their influence has been so
salutary.
Australia has not Jagged far behind.
As tar back as 1902. the so-called Fed
Grated States granted full national suf-
trage to women. Last November even
the somewhat backward state of Vie
torla coded. All the women of Federated
Australia therefore now enjoy full mu-
niclpaI, state, and national suffrage.
so, too, the activity in Finland, where
the suffrage was gained only three short
years ago, yet where the powers of evil
are already trembling in their boots
Conservative England some years
ago mere and there granted the munic-
ipal suffrage to Il varying extent, and
no observer today doubts very seriously
that the parliamentary suffrage is almost
at hand, The projected 'betrOthal boy
colt and marriage strike ought GER
tainly to have some weight with perhd-
lous Albion, if nothing else will.
Denmark succumbed last year to the
demand for municipal suffrage. At the
Copenhagen elections in March, the
women took an active part III the fight,
ut least q third of the votes being cast
by them. According to official statistics
the election returned 96S2 male council
Tors and 1T women ones. The battle is
still on there in true Nalkyrie style.
Sweden has already capitulated. The
liksdag has recently passed a bill which
enables all the inhabitants Of the coun-
Try, over II years of age, to vote. SO
The unlimited woman suffrage is there
aready an established fact.
In Germany womankind seems to be
under a ban, SO far as OId-party politics
are concerned; but nevertheless they are
IN great numbers adherents of the Social
Democracy there. Once this militant
party a't1lnS the power which now it is
reaching out for. to the CONSERVATION of
conservatism, its women can at once
turn their activities from revolutionary
party politics to national affairs.
In Russia, Cuba, Spain, Japan, even
turkey, the agitation is going vigorously
on Iceland has it, too, and in no pas
SiVe ia IN at that. The suffrage move
men, S always gaining ground, never
permanently losing. Its autcoD'o is TO
my mind at least, positively cer:at2. AS
women are forced out into or5ynercial
ana industrial pursuits, and are ohliped
'I the growing power of industrla,:sm
/" abandon the home. that sphere of
|"man, no other possible outcome can
.EsN!t than just this fight-and the win
mag OF the fight. Behind it are powP~-
IA economic reasons; and economic do
lerDlnsm, though it grind as slowly as
IHe mills of the gods, always grind g..
teeG-2g l1lall.