Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-20
SUFF MOVEMNN1
 CELEBRATES ITS 10TH ANNIVERSARY
First Step Toward "Votes fer Women" Launched
 at Seneca, N. Y.

New York. July l9.-Seventy years ago today, at convention held in the town of Seneca Falls, N Y, there was alunched the first organized movement to secure for the women of America the right to vote. When this convention was held, in 1848, a woman had no franchise privileges in this country except q very slight school suffrage in Kentucky. At the present time they have complete vot ing rights in a large number of the States, with excellent prospects that these rights may be made nation wide at no very distant date.
 It is difficult at the present time, when woman suffrage is a familiar household phrase, to realize the effect produced upon the public seventy years age by the circulation of the following printed notice:
 "Woman's Rights Convention"
 "A convention to discuss the social, civil and religious condition and rights of the women will be held in the Wesleyan Chapel Seneca Falls, N. Y., the 18th and 2Oth of July, cur rent; commencing at 10 o'clock a. m. During the first day of the meeting will be exclusively for women. who are earnestly invited to attend. The public generally are invited to attend on the second day, when Lucretia Mott, of Philadelphia and other lad ies and gentlemen will address the convention"
 When the eventful day arrived the church was filled with people, curious and eager to know what the meeting was for. The declaration of princip- les and resolutions was discussed, the latter adopted and the former signed by 100 men and women. There was so much interest in the conven- tion that it adjourned to meet in Rochester in August of the same year.
 At the Rochester convention the hall was crowded, and according to the accounts many fine addresses were made by men and women. Among the signers of the declaration were Susan B. Anthony's father and mother, but she herself was teaching in the academy at Canajoharic, N. r., and she knew nothing of these meet ings The declaration stated the whole case for woman as compreiensively as it has ever been stated since; the resolution comprised practically ev- cry demand that ever afterward was made for woman, and taken together they formed a remarkable document.
 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton met for the first time in 1851, and immediately afterward organized work for woman suffrage began to take shape in New York. In the following year, 1852, the suffrage agitation having increased to sur prising extent, convention was ar ranged to take place in Syracuse, and the delegates present were from eight States and Canada.
 This convention brought to the front the wonderful galaxy of women whose names were henceforth con- nected with the movement and inau- gurated Susan B. Anthony's 54 years leadership. From that time until the present, with the interim of the civil war. the work was actively continued.
 From America the equal suffrage movement has extended to many parts of the world. Since the com mencement of the present war Great Britain has deemed it advisable to enfranchise a large proportion of her women. In the Scandinavian countries and in the Netherlands women pos sess ballot rights and the privilege of election to parliament. In Australia, in Iceland in Burman, in certain dis tricts in India and in many other lands the women today have munich: pal and other limited suffrage, One of the first acts of the new republic of China was to grant the, suffrage to women on the same terms as men.
 But it is in the United. States, how ever, that the movement has achieved its greatest victories. Fully one-half of all the women voters in the world are within the boundaries of this country. At the present time women have completed voting rights in a dozen States and presidential or oth- CT partial suffrage in score of oth- ~l1Ao