In Washington Territory the women enjoyed equal suffrage from 1883 to 1887 by Act of the Territorial Legislature, and they also served on juries. They were hisod by two successive decisions of the Territorial Supreme Court, which was generallybelieved to have yielded to pressure from the gambling anu liquor interests. When the decision was announced the liquor-sellers and gamblers lit bonfires and rang bells. When British Columbia had a Suffrage Bill pending, Mr Robson, a member of Parliament, said: “The women are voting the gamblers and black-legs out of Washington Territory, and they are all coming over here.” He declared that Brit; >h Columbia w ould have to adopt woman suffrage in selfdefence.
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White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 261, 19 March 1917, Page 6
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113Untitled White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 261, 19 March 1917, Page 6
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