Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-02-18
TWENTY FACTS ABOUT
 WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Where Women Vote.


 zona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Montana and Nevada-and in the territory of Alaska. women have full suffrage on exactly the same terms as men.
 Fact No. 3-Every equal suffrage state is adjacent to another equal suffrage state--that is, every state except Wyoming which has granted votes for women had an opportunity to know beforehand how equal suf- frage worked in one or more neigh boring states.
 Fact No. 4--In Illinois women can vote for presidential electors and for all officers and on all questions not provided for in the state constitution In eighteen states of the United States women have school suffrage; and in four states limited suffrage on questions of taxing and bonding.
 Fact No. 5--Norway, Finland, Au- stralia, New Zealand, Iceland and Denmark have given full suffrage to women. These are among the most progressive and enlightened countries of the world.
 Fact No. 6-In every one of the above countries the municipal sui frage was granted first and the full suffrage granted only after the smaller measure had been thoroughly tested.
 Fact No. Tn Sweden, England and Wales, Ireland, Scotland and the nlne provinces of Canada women have municipal franchise. Sweden is on the point of extending full suffrage to women. In 1916, three Canadian provinces, Manitoba, Alberta ana Saskatchewan, granted full suffrage to women. Fact No. S-An amendment to the United States Constitution providing for the sweeping away of the sex bar l rier to suffrage all over the United States was voted on in the Senate at Washington on March 19. 1914, and m inc house on January 12, 1915. It obtained a majority of one vote Tn the senate: while in the house the vote stood 174 to 204.
 Fact No. 9-Over a million and ouarter votes were cast for woman suffrage in Massachusetts, New fork' New Jersey and Pennsylvania in 19lo. The Legislatures in. South Dakota, Iowa and West Virginia have passed suffrage bills, which will De suohit- ted to the voters in 1916.
 Fact No. 10--In no country, state or community which has granted women a measure of suffrage has It ever peel voted away from them and m mose eases the original franchise rlght Has been enlarged and extended.
 How Women Vote. z Fact No. 11-In answer to set ol questions sent out by suffraglsts' one hundred and forty mayors or cltieS and towns in the four oldest equai suffrage states-Wyoming, Colofaoo' 1Ttah and Idaho-and in kansas where women had municipal su1lrage at the time, unanimously replied; f;,st that the women do vote in large numbers: second, that the women are nnhlic-spirited and take an lntelllgeht ;ntarest in public affairs; third, that the vote of disreputable women IS negligible factor. ,,+o,,
 T,ct No. 12-The gist of an eXten' s;ve onestionaire recently sent out bv m the Evening Sun( of New 1ork or c;tvI was "Do women who have the vote vote? What laws have thef votes passed? Is woman su1Ifasa considered q success by the states that have it?" The sun summarlzeu inc results of the investigation made Inv it's correspondents, as 1ollows: "Women who have the vote do Vote' Their ballot has already passed coll- siderable body of law. The suffrage states seem to be satisfied to nave women go on voting." summary o1 inc many splendid laws for women and children directly attributed to tue ballots of women was printed by the Evening Sun.
 Fact No. 1S-The legislatures of the two oldest suffrage states-Colorado and Wyoming-have formally adopt ed resolutions declaring woman sul- frage to be an unqualified success. The legislature of California mas passed a resolution calling upon con- gress to pass an amendment en1ran- chising all of the women Of the Uhted States.
 Fact No. 14-Both houses of the Australian parliament have passeo resolutions declaring woman suffrage an unqualified success in that coun- 1 try.
 Fact No. 15-Arizona. California, Colorado and Washington are the only 1 states Ill JIG OulOH WiNll new NAS,NN hour laws for working women.
 Fact No. 16-Callifornia. Colorado, Oregon, Washington and Kansas have ! commissions with power to fix minimum wage in industry Utah has minimum wage law. Of the other five equal suffrage states. three have practically no women employed in in- dustry. one has been an equal suf- frage state only since 1912 and the other two only since November, 1914. The only non-suffrage states With minimum wage commissions are Mas sachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wis consin and Arkansas.
 Fact No. 17-In all the equal suf- frage states women teachers and wo- men in public service get equal pay | forequal work. | Fact No. 1S-California, Kansas, Utah, Washington. Oregon. Arizona, l Colorado and Idaho have passed the "Red Light Abatement and Injunction l I tnI 1,1y0 0ufhnrifioc n