Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-09-01

Australia granted full state suffrage
TO women, both married or single.
In 1901 New York gave tax-paying
women in all towns and villages OF
the state the right to vote on questions
of local taxation, Norway gave them
municipal suffrage, and the Kansas
leglslture voted down almost unani-
mousely, and amid a ripple of amuse-
ment, a proposal to repeal municipal
suffrage
IN 1902 full national suffrage was
granted to all the women Of federated
Australia, and full state suffrage to
the women Of New South Wales.
In 1903 Tasmania gave full state
suffrage to women, and bond suffrage
was granted TO the women of Kansas.
In 1905 Queensland gave women full
state suffrage. In 1906 Finland gave
them full national suffrage, and made
them eligible to all officers, from
members Of parliament down.
In 1907 Norway gave full parlia-
mentary suffrage to the 100000 women
who already had municipal suffrage.
Denmark gave women the right to
vote for members of the boards of
public charities, and to serve on such
boards, and England. with only Is
dissenting votes out of the $40 mem
bers of the house of commons, made
women eligible as mayors, aldermen
and town and county councillors.
In 1908 Michigan gave tax-paying
women the right to vote on questions
OF local taxation and the granting of
franchises Denmark gave women who
are taxpayers or the wives of taxpay-
ers a vote for all officers except mem
bers Of parliament, and Victoria gave
full state suffrage to all women.
In 1909 Belgium gave women the
right to vote for members of the Con
sells des Prudhommes, and made them
eligible; single women and widows
paying taxes were given a vote in the
Province Of Vorarlberg austrian Ty-
roll, and Ginter Park Va. gave tax
paying women, married or single, mu-
nlcipal suffrage.
In 1910 Washington gave full suf-
,frage to all women; New Mexico gave
them school suffrage; Norway made
municipal woman suffrage universal
(three-fifths of the women had had II
before); Bosnia gave the parliament
ary vote to women owning a certain
amount Of real estate; the diet of the
Crown Province of Krain (Austria)
gave suffrage to the women of its can
ltal city, Laibch; New York gave
women in all the towns, villages and
thlrd-class cities right to vote on
bonding propositions; Vancouver ex-
tended municipal suffrage to married
women (single women and widows
had 1t before); the Gaedwar of Ba-
roda Ondia) gave the women of his
dominions vote in municinal elec
tons; and the Kingdom of Wurtem-
berg gave women engaged in agricul-
ture a vote for members of the cham
Der OF agriculture, and also made them
eligible.
since January 1911, both houses of
the lcelandic parliment voted to give
women full suffrage; Norway has
made women eligible to most of the
oIfices of state; and the legislatures
OF California, Kansas, Oregon, Ne
yada and Wisconsin have voted by
heavy maJorlties in favor of submit
ting to the voters constitutional
amendments granting full suffrage to
women,
Many years ago, when equal suf-
rage was much more unpopular than
now somebody asked Bishop Gilbert
Haven II It were true that he had
been speaking at suffrage meeting.
Yes, answered the bishop "I don't
want to fall in at the rear of this
reform. prefer to march with the !
procession
There can be no doubt as to which |
way the procession is moving