The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-19
INTO THEIR OWN.


through the Tennessee legislature yes
terday became voters. That is to say,
those women of the United States who
had not already received the fran
chise through their state legislatures,
of which there were about thirteen
million. The action of the Tennessee
legislature raises the possible woman
vote to twenty five million
The women Of this country have not
approached this hour lightly. They
have come through long and weary
years of misunderstanding, of misrep-
resentation, but the way that women
of today have trod has been made
easier for them by the sacrifices of
other women, those brave pioneers who
70 rthe past hundred years have been
fighting for the suffrage.
1T is a great thing to be a woman
awake in the twentieth century, in the
woman's century, awake and cogni-
zant of the change and the lift and
promise of the time, awake and deter
mined to help even If it be ever so
little-to help toward a better, deeper.
between men and women and a nobier.
fairer, happier world for men and
women and thei rchildren. It is a
great thing to help, even ever so little.
toward molding wonderfully the child
of all of us-the future"
This is the beautiful way in which
Mary Johnston, the. brilliant young
virginian, voices that, which is the
true sentiment of every loyal woman.
The development of woman suffrage
in the western states during the last
fifty years has proven that the gaining
of rights for women in no way abro-
gates the rights of men. In the west
men and women have worked together,
hand in hand, each realizing that the
other has a part to play In the gov
eminent.
The old southern bugaboo of the ne
gro vote has long since been laid. No
less authority than that of Chief JUS
tice Fuller, of North Carolina, is given
for the statement that the salvation of
the outh depends upon the utilization
of the woman vote. The white women
of the South outnumber the colored
men and women together, and in the
two states in which this is not true,
South Carolina and Mississippi. the
negro men have out numbered the
white men for years, so in no way are
conditions there materially changed.
According to figures compiled from
the 1920 census estimates. the women
of voting age will be outnumbered by
men OF voting age in Florida by 3s,642.
It is estimated that there are in this
state 235,19 men and 1858 women
more than twenty-one years old.
Approximately $4,000, 900 women will
be entitled to cast Their vote for the
president.
Figures compiled from the census
show that there are 26,SS3,566 women
over 81 years of age in the United
States, and that the male population
in the same class is 29.577,699. These
figures do not take into account the
aliens. and it is estimated that at least
100000 should be taken from each
class on this account.
Had the Susan B. Anthony amend
ment to the constitution failed in ra.i-
fication IN time to efranchise those
women who have not had the ballot
conferred upon them through Their
state legislatures, thirteen million
women would have been eligible as
voters. Fifteen states had already
granted women full suffrage. their to-
tai female population eligible to vote
numbering 7.303,2Ss, with a total Of
1877 electoral votes. Eight other states
granted their women presidential suf-
frage, with approximately 1000, 900
women voters and 81 electoral votes.
Two other states had given the wom-
en- the vote at presidential primaries.
The suffrage amendment accepted
by congress and the senate was draft
ed by Susan B. Anthony in 1875. and
is known as the Anthony amendmet.
1t was first itroduced in the senate
in 1917 by Sargent, of Carilfornia.
Thirty times since it has been intro
duced and defeated or tabled
The United States senate has passed
on suffrage four times.
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