The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-28
SPEAKER BYRD AND WOMAN SUE
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FRAGE.
I'VE are very much surprised" saws
the Buena Vista Times, noting the fact
that Speaker Byrd consented TO an
interview with the head of the woman
suffrage movement, that any sane man
or any newspaper with an intelliscnt
editor should notice such an insignif-
cant matter as the woman suffrage
movement. It has come to a disgusting
state Of affairs when women want TO
run the country. They belong at home.
and there they should stay, and in the
homo they can use their influence
through the men for tho things they
think arc for the betterment of the
country. The home is a woman's
realm. Take them out OF the home and
put them in public office and the coun-
try would soon be in had shane"
This is an interesting contribution I O
a subject that is now commanding
worldwide attention, but it is not con
elusive by any means, or at least, there
are some hundreds of thousands OF
Intelligence who take a rather more
liberal view Of woman and her mission
thar that expressed by our accom-
plished contemporary.
In the United States women possess
suffrage upon equal terms with men
at all the elections in Wyoming, Col
orado Utah and Idaho In Kansas
women possess school suffrage. NUM-
cipal suffrage and bond suffrage. In
| twentynine States school suffrage for
women obtains--in Arizona, Colorado,
Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Iowa.
Illinois Indiana, idaho Kansas, Mich
igan. Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missis-
sippi. Montana. Nebraska, New Hamn-
shire. New Jersey. New York, North
Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, South Dakota.
Utah. Vermont, Washington, Wyoming
and Wisconsin. Twenty four years ago
| taNpaylng women in Montana were
given the right 10 vote on questions
submitted to taxpayers In 1884 omen
IN lSaS the women OF Minnesota were
given the right to vote for library trus-
tees, and in the same year the women
! taxpayers Of Louisiana were given the
right 10 vote in person or by proxy on
all questions of taxation. Two years
ago constitutional amendment was
adopted in Michigan providing for tax
paying suffrage for women taxpayers.
In Great Britain women can vote for
all offices except members of Parlia-
ment. In Australia and New Zealand
women have full suffrage, and also in
the Isle OF Man, Iceland and Finland.
In Norway they have full parliamen-
tary suffrage. In France, women en-
gagged i'll commerce have the right to
vote for Judges Of the Tribunal of
Commerce. In Ontario, Nova Scotia.
Manitoba. Quebec. British Columbia and
the Northwest Territory women have
municipal suffrage. At Sacramento. on
Thursday of the present week. the Cal
ifornia State Senate by vote Of "a
TO 5. adopted a constitutional amend
ment comforting equal suffrage upon
women.
It would appear, therefore, from these
facts that millions of men-because the
men have made the laws which have
conferred the right of suffrage OF any
sort unon the womcn--think that wo-
man suffrage is really not SO insigniG.
cant matter as our esteemed Buena
Vista friend thinks OF course, wo-
mans realm is the home. Everybody
agrees to that. and the home would he
dreary place. indecd--in fact. it would
woman who take care of It. and whctl,-
er wc think that women should not be
given the right of sunragc or not,
there is g very general movement. not
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