Quarterly Review. 210: 276-304. Ja. '09. Woman Suffrage. Albert V. Dicey.

Reprinted in full in Living Age. 261: 67-84. April 10, 1909.

Westminster Review. 175: 91-103. Ja. '11. Economic Criticism of Woman Suffrage. C. H. Norman.

World To-Day. 15: 1061-6. O. '08. Should Women Vote? Virginia B. Le Roy.

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SELECTED ARTICLES ON

WOMAN SUFFRAGE

INTRODUCTION

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One fact that early impresses the student of this question is that Woman Suffrage is not a subject of academic discussion merely, it is an active political movement. Not only in the United States but in nearly every country of the civilized world there are well-established organizations of women, and, often, men also, actively engaged in promoting or opposing the extension of the suffrage to women. one of their methods of propaganda, these organizations publish and distribute vast quantities of literature including weekly and monthly periodicals. This literature is extremely valuable for reference, and as the length of the bibliography forbids more than a brief statement of how this material may be secured, it seems advisable to give place here to a list of the more important of these organizations and their publications.

The most prominent of the societies organized for the extension of the suffrage to women in the United States, is the National American Woman Suffrage Association, with headquarters at 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City. This organization publishes an immense amount of literature and has issued a catalog of its publications, which is sent free to any address on request. The Woman's Journal, a weekly publication edited by Alice Stone Blackwell, has a wide national circulation, and is published at 585 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass., subscription price one dollar a year. Auxil

iary to this national body are numerous state, city, county and local organizations, and various allied societies, many of which publish literature and issue periodicals. Perhaps the two most notable of these periodicals are the Woman Voter, f Madison Avenue, New York City, subscription price, fifty cents a year; and The Newsletter, 180 Madison Avenue, New York City, fifty cents a year.

There is no national organization opposed to the extension of the suffrage to women, but societies have been organized in many of the states and are publishing and distributing literature. Those with whom the student will find it most profitable to correspond are the New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, with headquarters at 29 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York City, the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women, Room 615, Kensington Building, Boston, Mass., and the Illinois Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, 1523 Dearborn Avenue, Chicago, Ill. The Massachusetts Association publishes "The Remonstrance" the subscription price of which is twenty-five cents a year.

In addition to the above-mentioned periodicals there are a few published abroad which will be valuable as sources of up to date information to those making an exhaustive study of the subject. Among those issued by the advocates of Woman Suffrage are the Jus Suffragii, 92 Kruiskade, Rotterdam, Holland, organ of the International Suffrage Alliance, subscription price eighty-two cents a year; Votes for Women, 4 Clements Inn, The Strand, London, organ of the Women's Social and Political Union (the "militant” organization); The Common Cause, 2 Roberts Street, Adelphi, London, W. C., organ of the National Union of Woman Suffrage Societies; and The Vote, 1 Robert Street, Adelphi, London, W. C., organ of the Woman's Freedom League. On the other side of the question there is one important periodical, the Anti-Suffrage Review, published by the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage, 515 Caxton House, Tothill Street, Westminster, S. W. London, of which the subscription price is about thirty-eight cents a year.

A second fact that impresses the reader or student is the rapidity with which events come to pass in this movement for the enfranchisement for women. One must keep almost daily in touch with what is published on the question in order that his stock of information may always be reliable and up to date. Many of the latest facts and statistics could not be incorporated into the following discussions because they could not be secured in any but the most fragmentary form, and for this reason, it has been decided best to include them in this introductory article.

To the list of the gains for equal suffrage summarized, in the following article, to the close of 1911, may be added those already secured during 1912. These are, in brief, as follows: Full suffrage for women in China, on the same terms as men; the Parliamentary franchise for a limited number of women in Portugal; women made eligible as borough and district councellors in Ireland, and to almost all state offices in Norway; school suffrage restored in Kentucky. Other partial gains are the endorsement of equal suffrage by many national and affiliated trade, social, political and religious organizations, and its incorporation into the platforms of state and national political conventions, especially those of the Socialist, Prohibition and the newly-organized Progressive Parties.

That other gains for Woman Suffrage will be made before the close of 1912 seems probable, for the legislatures of Oregon, Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin and the constitutional convention of Ohio have already voted to submit amendments to their state constitutions allowing women to vote on the same terms as men. These amendments will be voted upon at the November elections in every state but Ohio where action is to be taken on the work of the constitutional convention, on the third of September. A similar amendment was passed by the last legislature of Nevada, but must pass the legislature a second time before going to the voters. The legislature of Louisiana has resolved to submit an amendment granting school suffrage to women and this will also be voted on in November, 1912. The state legisla