The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-01
No Less Illuminating

sentation, governed without their con-
sent. tried, convicted and punished
without a jury of their peers. Is all
this tyranny any less humiliating and
degrading to women under our demo
cratic-republican government today,
than it was to men under their aris-
tocratic- government over
a hundred years ago ?"-Susan B.
Anthony.
The above quotation seems espec-
tally applicable to the situation just
now, when one is being firmly invited
by the state government to pay taxes
on any little property oen may pos
sess, and still more peremptorily bid
den by the u. S. government to come
up and pay ones income tax-if one
makes enough to keep the wolf a lit
tie distance from the door. Was the
revolution fought to defend the prin-
ciple that taxation without represen-
tation is tyranny" And does the
Declaration of independence specific
ally state that government derives
its just powers from the consent of
the governed ?" What has become OF
the old-time Washington birthday
and Fourth of July orator who used
to expatiate bv the hour upon these
pleasing untruths? The socialists,
the /. W. VS.. and the Bolsheviki
have about put him out of business.
There are approximately 10000 900
American women in the "gainful occu-
pations" today. Since there are a.
100000 women over 21 years of age,
it can be seen that nearly one-haf of
the women of the nation today are
money-earners. "When the lives of
nearly half Of the adult women Of the
country are conditioned by economic
necessity, when nearly half of the
women of the country are to be found
not in the home, but in the office, the
mill, the factory. the mines, the fields.
it is time for the country to stop
theorizing about what a woman's
place actually is" To quote an emf
nent authority, ct is a condition that
confronts US, not theory"
Within the past month. three state
legislatures have given women the
right to vote in the next presidential
election. These states are Vermont,
Indiana and Wisconsin. In the No
vember elections Michigan, South Da-
kota and Oklahoma gave all rights
of suffrage to women, by popular
ratification of state constitutional
amendments. In the next presiden-
tial election, at least 12,50O,0OO wom-
en- in twenty-four states will help
elect the president.
Women vote in the foreign coun-
tries listed below:
Australia, 1902; Austria, 1918;
Canada, 1918; Czecho-Slovakia, 1918;
Denmark, 1915; England, 1918; Fin
land, 1906; Germany, 1918; Holland,
1918; Hungary, 1918; Iceland, 1913;
Ireland, 1918; Isle of Man, 1881; New
Zealand, 1898; Norway, 1907; Poland,
1918; Russia. 1917; Scotland, 1918;
Sweden, 1919; Wales, 1913.
Women have full suffrage in the
following states: Wyoming, 1896;
Colorado, 1893; Idaho, 1896; Utah,
1896; Washington, 1910; California,
1911; Arizona, 1912; Kansas, 1912,
Oregon, 1912; Alaska, 1918; Montana,
1914; Nevada, 1914; New York. 1917;
Oklahoma, 1918; Michigan. 1918;
South Dakota, 1918.
Women have presidential suffrage
in Illinois, 1913; North Dakota, 1917;
Nebraska, 1917; Vermont, 1919;
Rhode Island, 1917; Indiana. 1919;
Wisconsin, 1919.
Women have the right to take part
IL Al
1877, and Texas 1919.
Nearly all the states of the north
and west give women tax, municipal
and school suffrage
1t is mistake to say that women
have only wanted suffrage recently.
There are historical records to prove
here in America the matter was in
teresting to the leading women of the
country in colonial times. Mrs Anne
Hutchinson of Salem, Mass, was
driven out of the settlement because
OF her pronounced religious and po-
litical views. She went to Rhode ISL
and and founded Newport. She is
called Americas first suffragist,"
1896. Mrs. Margaret Brent was a
figure in Maryland about
1648. She demanded seat in the as
sembly as executrix of Governor Cal
vert, and although she was refused,
she helped to avert serious trouble in
the colony. When the new government
was being organized after the Decla-
ration of independence, Abigail Ad-
ans, wife of John Adams of Massa-
chusetts, and a group of colonial
DANES were very anxious to have
women recognized. Of course, the
fact that practically all education was
denied women in those days, kept the
vast majority Sof them quiet. The
first suffrage convention was held at
Seneca Falls, N. Y, is 1849, over sew
enty years ago. The Susan B. An
-hony amendment was introduced in |
Congress in 1878, forty-one years ago,
and has been reported from committee
n the Senate no less than twelve