WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1122, 9 May 1911, Page 5

WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

DEMONSTRATION IN NEW TORE,

By Telegraph—Press Associatior-Copyrielit New York, May 7. A woman's suffrage demonstration, on a huge scale, is being held here. A procession, in which were babies and grandmothers, paraded Fifth Avenue. Afterwards addresses were given. Hundreds of the leaders, in the name of the American women, demanded votes.

WOMEN AND THE VOTE. In the United States women possess suffrage unon equal terms with men at all elections in four States: In Wyoming, established in 18G9; in Colorado, In 1893; in Utah, in 1896; and in Idaho, m 1896. In Kansas .women nessess school suffrage established in 1801, municipal suffrage established in ISB7, and bond suffrage in 1901. Full suffrage was rejected by the Kansas Legislature in 1909. In 1910 woman suffrage was defeated ia the Massachussetts House of Representatives by a vote of 47 to 143. It was acted unon unfavourably by the Judiciary Committees of both Houses of tho New York Legislature. Woman school suffrage was rejected by the Louisiana Legislature, and municipal suffrage by the Maryland Legislature. ' The. Californian Republican State convention' of 1910 adopted a resolution favouring submission to the voters of a constitutional amendment providing for woman suffrage. Woman' suffrage amendments were voted upon in Oregon, Washington, South Dakota, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona, in November, 1910. School suffrace for women prevails in some form in twenty-nine States as follow: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, lowa, Illinois, Indiana, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakato, Oklahoma, Ohio, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wyoming, and Wisconsin.

In 1887 Montana gave tax-paying womenthe right to vote on questions submitted to tax-payers; in. 1891 bond suffrage was given to" women in Iowa; in 189S the women of Minnesota were given tho riant to vote for library trustees, and in the same year Louisiana gave women taxpayers tho right to vote in person or by proxy on all questions of taxation. In 190S Michigan adopted a constitutional amendment providing for tax-paying suffrage for women taxpayer's. In 1901 the New York Legislature pas-sod a law providing that "a woman whd possesses the qualifications to vote for village or for town officers, excent the qualification of sex, who is the owner of property in the village assessed nnon the last preceding assessment roll thereof, is entitled to vote upon a proposition to raise money by tax or assessment." In Great Britain woman can vote for all officers cxc?pt members of Parliament. In Australia and New Zealand women have full suffrage; also in the Isle of Man, Iceland, and Finland. Tlicv have full_ parliamentary suffrage in Norway. Women have municipal suffrage in Ontario, Nova Scotia, .Manitoba, Quebec, British Columbia,. and the North-TVcst Territory, in Iceland, Denmark, and Sweden. In France women engaged in commerce have the right to voto for Judges of the Tribunal of Commerce. Women have some voting privileges in Cape Colony.