The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-01-27
EQUAL SUFFRAGE NOTES
Edited BY Anne Martin For the
Nevada Equal Franchise
Society

for the amendment OF the Constitution
on account Of the urgency Of the woman
Suffrage question.
At Lyons, France, the first woman
suffrage society ever formed in that city
was organized two months ago. and al
ready counts 400 paid up members.
Active agitation for woman suffrage is
developing all over France, and public
bodies are every day passing resolutions
10 favor Of the principle.
Trinity County, CAL, Republicans
have recognized women voters by add
ing Miss Minnie Aldrich, Miss Anna
jenkins and Mss Lucy Young to the
central committee.
By a unanimous vote. the Illinois
State Grange, at its recent annual meet
ing, put itself on recori as favorlng
equal suffrage. The organization has a
mem bership of 5000.
The Women Clerks Trade Union OF
Berlin, Germany, which has worked for
years for inclusion in the Imperial sys.
tenn of pensions and insurances, has
lately received assurance that they are
soon to be admitted on excellent terms.
A feature of their last convention was a
vigorous demand for political enfran-
chisement.
The IN ovement for women s rights in
Portugal is advancing rapidly. and an
active suffrage campaign is now in
progress in that country. Portuguese
newspapers are devoting great deal of
space to the subject, and their attitude
is almost invariably favorable.
Governor Foss of Massachusetts,,
urging measures on the attention of the
State Legislature a few days ago, re.
ferred to the importance of submitting
the question of woman suffrage to pop
ular vote.
At one of the sessions of the Italian
Woman Suffrage Convention recently
held in Turin. the Mayor Of the city
presided and said he felt sure that the
spirit Of earnestness and higher ednca-
lion of the suffragists would in the end
prove equal to overcome all difficulties.
4 member Of the Italian Parliment was
among the speakers, and insisted on
the justice and expediency Of equal
suffrage and on the profit it would be to
the Nation if it invited the collaboration
of women in the political and municipal
domain.
Miss Mona Wilson, the first woman
Insurance Commissioner appointed for
England by the Government, is a
daughter of Canon Wilson, of Wor-
cester, formerly Archdeacon OF Man.
chester and Head-master of Clifton.
Miss Wilson has been engaged in ad.
minlstering the Trade Board Act with
regard to the chain making and box
making trades; she has served as a
member Of the Home Office Depart
mental Committee on Industrial Acct
dents. and has devoted her whole life
TO the problems of womel's employ
ment Canon and Mrs. Wilson are
towers of strength to the suffrage
movement in England.
In England, it is said, the Anti Suf-
fragists have for the most part aband-
oned the position that woman's place
should be restricted to the home. They
now express concern that women should
spend their energies in trying to secure
the vote. while they neglect the duty of
serving on public boards.
All of the Maryland equal suffrage
societies are engaged in a vigorous
Legislative campaign with the object of
having their bill presented at the com
ing session of the State Legislature.
Rev. r. B Hassell. the newly elected
Mayor of Everett, Washington, has ap
pointed a woman to the office of execu
tive secretary. He has also appointed
woman physician as head of the
Health Department, a woman to the
Park Board and one to the Library
Board.
The Central Labor Union of Concord.
N. H., at its last meeting put itself on
record as favoring woman suffrage by
passing the following resolution: "Be
it resolved that this Central Labor
Union hereby endorse the movement
for equal suffrage and recommend that
the members of all affiliated unions vote
for delegates to the Constitutional Con-
vention who are pledged to vote for its
submission to the voters Of the State. Z"
A writer in the New York Times,
giving his views on the five most inn
portant achievements of the pasu year,
places first on the list the "advsnce of
women in the assertion of their civic