The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-01-26
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
MAKES PROGRESS
UNITED STATES LEADS IN THE
FIGHT OF WOMEN FOR EQUAL
POLITICAL PRIVILEGES.
And Many Countries Are Following
Example Of the Americans; FEEDER
al Amendment, Looked Upon as
Wholly Negligible Few Years Ago,
Is Now a Burning Issue.

At the beginning of a new year,
and in view of the successful activi-
ties of women in the recent election,
Montana women will be interested in
a correct account of the progress and
standing of women suffrage through
out the world. The following was
written by Alice Stone Blackwell and
the article is we'll worth preserving,
not only for future reference. but for
future comparisons:
Ninety years g women could not
vote anywhere, except at municipal
elections in Sweden and a few other
places in Europe.
In the forty years from 1880 to
1870, women were given full suf-
frage in Wyoming, municipal suf-
frage in England, Finland, Victoria
and New South Wales, and school
suffrage in Kentucky, Kansas and
Ontario.
Some Early Day Victories.
In the twenty years from 1870 to
1890, women were given municipal
suffrage in Kansas, Scotland, New
Zealand, South and West Australia,
Tasmania, Iceland, Ontario, New
Brunswick, Nova S otia, Quebec,
British Columbia and the Northwest
Territory; school suffrage in Michi-
gan. Minnesota, Colorado, New
Hampshire, Oregon, Massachusetts,
New York, Vermont, Nebraska, North
and South Dakota, Montana, Arizona,
New Jersey and Oklahoma, and full
suffrage in the Isle of Man. In Mon
tana, tax-paying women were given a
vote upon all questions submitted to
the taxpayers.
In the twenty years from 1890 to
1910, women were given full suf-
frage in Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Nor
way, Finland, New Zealand, South
and West Australia, Tasmania,
Queensland, Victoria and New
South Wales; municipal suffrage in
Ireland, Denmark and the province
of Vorarlberg austrian Tyrol), and
school suffrage in Illinois, Connect
cut, Ohio, Delaware and Wisconsin.
In Louisiana, in Michigan, and in
all the towns and villages of New
York state, tax-paying women were
given a vote on questions of local tax
alton. In Iowa and Kansas women
were given a vote on bonding prop
ositions, and in Minnesota a vote for
library trustees. In France women
engaged in trade were given a vote
for judges Of the tribunals of CON-
MERGE. In Belgium women we're CIV
en- a vote for the Conseils des Prud-
hommes.
Suffrage in Montana.
In the seven years from 1910 to
1916, inclusive, ome have been
given full suffrage in Washington,
California. Kansas, Oregon, Arizona,
Montana, Nevada, Manitoba, Alberta,
Saskatchewan, British Columbia, AL
aska, Denmark, Bosnia and Yucatan;
municipal suffrage in South Africa
in Laibach (Austria), Baroda (In-
dia), and Belize (Honduras); and
school suffrage in New Mexico. The
Kingdom of Wurtemberg gave WON.
en- engaged in agriculture a vote for
members of the Chamber of Agricul'
ture; and local rights of suffrage
were extended to women in a number
of cities, ranging from Canada to the
Gulf.
1t will be observed that full suf.
frage for women has made more pro-
gress during the last sever years
than during the previous seventy. Ir
1916, also, the first oma was
elected to congress-; and the womer
} of the United States were for the first
time an important factor in a great
national election.
Now Comes the Federal Amendment
The federal amendment for woman
suffrage, which eight years ago was
looked upon b. the majority of con
gressmen as wholly negligible, has
become a burning question:, com
handing the anxious attention of the
party leaders on both sides; and, fol
the first time, every political party ir
the country has declared in its ma
tional platform hal women ought tc
vote. Even the great war, SO dread
full and destructive in every other as
pect, has brought equal suffrage
nearer in Europe-in England, actu
ally within sight-because of the
splendid war service rendered by the
women. The history of the years
bears out the words of a Mexican
poet:
Humanity knows that a mycteri
Gus sou causes everything to NOV
upward by a starry stair. What wa'
!. a thorn yesterday will be a rose to
morrow: what was a chrysali5 yoster
day, tomorrow will be a butterfly
what yesterday was a wish, tomorrow