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ment. The women of Portugal who
were active in the campaign which re-
suited in the Portuguese Republic have
formed awgreat organization in behalf
OF votes for women, and their appeal
mas been approved|by the Legislature.
me women of Persia, of Turkey, of +
india, OF Russia, of South Africa of
every country in the world, are de-
mand1ng an extension of rights and
the Parliaments of the nations have
begun TO give the question their sefi-
GUS consideration. ~
The 44th annual convention of the
National Woman Suffrage Association
held in Philadelphia last week, was de-
clared to be the most successful in
the history of the movement in the
United States. The next important
gathering will beSthe biennial con
Yention of the International Woman
Suffrage Alliance at Budapest, Hun
gary, in June, 1918. 1t is expected
that delegats will be present from
tWenty-sevep different countries, in
Guiding India, China and japan,
where societies we're organized by the
International president, Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, during her recent tour
of the world
The convention of the International
Mems League for Woman Suffrage.
which was held in London during the
last week of October, is one of the.
most important events in the worlds
campaign for votes for women, en-
phasizing, as it does, the fact that
with men and women working togeth-
er for the same cause the question
can no longer be disposed of by re-
Ef0rrinO tn ,+o,o
The National Mems League for
Womanq Suffrage, with James Lees
Laidlaw, a New York banker as pres
ident, has issued an appeal to the
men of the United States, the first
paragraph of which reads as follows:
Many men who are willing to con-
cede the justice of the equal suffrage
principle stand idly by and allow all
the burden of the campaign to fall on
the women. We are the wage-earners
and the businessmen who have it in
our poWeE to raise money to circulate
literature, to make speeches, and to
campaign actively for. one of the
greatest issues now before the Amer
lean people"
Now come Nevada and Montana,
vfeing with each other as to which
shall be the first State TO enfranchise
its women. Nevada is in the lead
with both, Houses of the Legislature
approving the submission of the ques.
tion to the voters.
A bill looking oward woman suf-
frage in Pennsylvania will be intro
duced at the coming session by SEN
ator Farley of Philadelphia Senti-
ment in favor Of votes for women has
| reached such proportions in the Key
stone State that the prospects for a
successful campaign are considered
encouraging. Every political party in
the State has endorsed the measure.
I Delaware suffragists are preparing
an appeal to be submitted to the next
Legislature asking that the word male
be stricken from the State constitu-
ton and that full suffrage be extend
ed to women on equal terms with
men.
In North Carolina the coming year
woman suffrage is to be. debated in
more than one hundred schools
throughout the State, as the result of
plans recently adopted by the State
Teachers Assembly The women
teachers also, asserted their independ-
ence by adopting resolutions demand
ing that women be appointed to posi-
lions on school boards and textbook
committees.
From Denmark comes the news that
1t is confidently expected that the
Danish women will secure complete
enfranchisement within the coming
year. The Prime Minister of Denmark
has introduced bill which includes
suffrage on equal terms with men.
and it is said that opposition to the
measure has decreased to one vote in
| Parliament. "
/ A report from France is to the eff
feet that the General Council of
Seine Inferieure has passed the suf-
frage resolution presented by the
French Woman Suffrage Association
The progress Of the movement in
France is evidenced by the fact that
this identical resolution, asking for
municipal suffrage for women, was de-
Heated last year by the same Council
which has just approved it.