Valdez daily prospector., 1912-03-20
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1912
WoMAN's coNQUEsTs.


 ies for the equal suffragists are near at hand. At the beginning of this year there were six states which had abolished the sex line in the employment of the bal lot, two of which did this re- gently. Wyoming, the pioneer in this advance, took this step fOr- ward in it's territorial days, be- ginning in 1869. Her example was followed by Colorado in 1893, by Utah and Idaho in 1896, by Washington in 1910, and by Cal ifornia in 1911. Four states will vote on this proposition in 1912. These are Wisconsin, Kansas, Nevada and Oregon. In all of them the SuilragiSiS are making an active canvass. As the lead CTS of both parties in Wisconsin and Kansas favor sex equality at the ballot box, it's friends predict victory in both of them. Nevada is counted on to join the suf- fragc column, and so is Oregon. Most of the politicians there are enrolled on the side of the sui fragiStS. They arc surrounded on nearly all sides with suffrage states. Oregon recently voted down a proposition of this sort, but it's advocates have more con- tidence since Washington and California joined their column.
 The Ohio constitution makers seem to be in favor of adding equal suffrage to their charter. The committee which considered the question voted for it by 16 to i. It's friends there say that large majority of the delegates to the convention are for it. It will probably be in the cOnsti- tuition in it's final form, and will be voted on next fall with the rest of the charter. Many of the suf- fragiStS have been active at Co., lumbus, and they express cOnG- dcncc in the success of their idea. In 1912 this question is up in more states than acted upon it in any previous year. The ques- tIOn Is becoming so prominent that public men are compelled to give some attention to it. The other day Col. Roosevelt gave the proposition his approval to the extent of suggesting that the women in every state outside of the six which have adopted it. be permitted to vote on inc question. and if they accept it, he said, the acquicSccncc of the men would be obtained easily he would have fair and open plrbisciic on this issue, to be participated in by women only, and to take place this year. A somewhat similar view was expressed by President Taft year or two ago.
 In their campaign for the re- moval of sex disabilities at the polls, American women arc wiser than their British sisters. They carefully refrain from violence in pushing their propaganda. While the women in Great Brit ain have the suffrage for the choice of all officials save mem bers of parliament, they are es- pecially anxious Co have this cX- ceptiOn removed. They have Chancellor Lloyd War Secretary Haldane, First Lord of Admiralty Churchill and one or two other members of the cabi- net on their side, but Premier ASquith and a majority of his associates arc against them. Such proposition could hard ly, in the near future, success fully run the gauntlet of the house of lords. Tn several of the British dependencies, however, including the Isle of Man, Aus tralia and New Zealand, women have full suffrage, as they also have in Norway and Sweden and in Finland. Moreover, the cause is making advances in France, and is beginning to arouse some discussion in Germany. The kali scr's daughter has joined the ranks of the feminists but they will undoubtedly have a long and hard struggle before they can overcome the conservatism of that country. IL is in the west crn part of tho United States that the suffrage movement is most active and promising at this mo- mcnt.--Sf. Louis Globc-Demo- crat.