The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-06-18
EQUAL SUFFRAGE
Al leading pubIication saws:

A leading publication says:
With complete woman suffrage now
in twelve states and woman suffrage
in presidential elections in five other
states, there is a general disposition
to concede that the fight begun sew
enty years ago for equal suffrage Is
almost as good as won not in this ma
ton alone but In Great Britain,
France and Russia as well. A woman
suffrage bill has already been passed
in the house of commons and the gov
eminent is behind the bill. A bill for
municipal woman suffrage has been
favorab1y reported in the French
chamber of deputies and the result In
New York state is thought certain to
have a marked effect in favor of its
adoption. Six provinces in Canada
have bestowed suffrage upon women
and federal bill is on its way in the
Canadian parliament. sWoman's work
for the war; says the Minneapolis
Tribune, has brought about new
for moi unity of interest and of eff
fort between men and women and
has placed woman by the side of man
in the promotion of their most earn
est endeavor. Under these circum-
stances such appeal as she makes I'M
der the suffrage banner reaches him
with peculiar force" The Atlanta
Constitution considers that COM
plete victory is not only inevitable
but "close at hand" and forsees s.a
general crumbling of woman suffrage
opposition" as the result of the New
York vote. The New York Times
keeps up its fight against the cause,
and asserts that the victory in this
state is "a gift from socialism, from
pacifsm, and those who, unconscious
ly or with intent, serve Germany;
but its news columns announce that
/ the anti" organization of the state
the strongest one in the nation
will either disband or form into an
organization to uphold war measures,
giving up its crusade against equal
suffrage.
The DesMoines Register thinks
there would now be no effective oppo-
sition to such bill: seThe debate over
the matter is now ended" The Times
Union of Jacksonville. Fla, hereto
Tore and now rather Indifferent on
/ the subject, thinks it is only a ques-
tion of short time when equal suf-
flage twill become universal" The
| Chicago Herald is one of the many
prominent journals to concede that
tlle work women have done in war, as
wen as in peace, has proved beyond
all bubble the political appropriate
mes sas well as the inherent justice
of the extention of the ballot" The
Sioux City Tribune sees deep sig
nifcsnce in the New York victory
cit ID an expression of the feelings OF
democracy throughout the world
which has been set boiling by our en-
trance into the great war" The silent
appeal of the procession of Red Cross
nursef down Fifth avenue a few
weeks ago, the same journal thinks
could not be passed by without af.
! firmative answer" The New York
American spreads an editorial In
large type over half a page which
concludes as follows:
/ These women of ours have not
only won their wonderful fight, but
God bless them!-they have deserved
it. They have demonstrated upon 9
thousand fields of industry and serv.
ice and duty, in peace and, but just
now, in war, their right to stanG
shoulder u, shoulder with the tallesi
of our race. They are the indispen-
sable compliments of every great
work of brain and hand and heart II
which this terrible war has summon.
ed the highest energies of men. II
the name of all justice and all hu.
manity, what more can we ask?"