ture of Arizona voted down an amendment for full suffrage this spring, whereupon its supporters filed an initiative petition calling for a referendum on the question at the November election, and action will be taken by the voters at that time. An examination of statistics for foreign countries shows similar movements on foot in many of them to remove the political disadvantages to which women are now subject. Action has already been taken by the Parliaments of Norway, Denmark and Iceland to give women the Parliamentary suffrage on the same terms which men now enjoy. and from Hungary now comes the semi-official report that the government intends soon to introduce a bill into Parliament for the enfranchisement of woman owners of property, proprietors of business and holders of the title of doctor. The limits of this volume make impossible any further description of present status of Woman Suffrage in England or other countries than our own more than is included in the following General Discussion. The bibliography provides many articles, however, for those wishing to read extensively on this phase of the question. August 28, 1912. GENERAL DISCUSSION Gains in Equal Suffrage. Alice S. Blackwell. Eighty years ago women could not vote anywhere, except to a very limited extent in Sweden, and in a few other places in the old world. Tasmania 1906 Finland 1907 Norway Full suffrage. Full suffrage. All offices except members of Parliament. Library trustees. School suffrage to tax-paying women. Women engaged in commerce can vote for judges of the Tax-paying suffrage. School suffrage. Full state suffrage. Tax-paying suffrage. villages of the state. Full state suffrage. Full state suffrage. Full state suffrage. Local taxation in all towns and Full suffrage. Eligible to all offices. Full Parliamentary suffrage to the 300,000 women who already had municipal suffrage. Eligible to municipal offices. Can vote for members of boards of public charities, and serve on such boards. Eligible as mayors, aldermen and county and town councillors. New state continued school suffrage for women. Women who are taxpayers, or wives of taxpayers, a vote Can vote for members of the Counseils des Prudhommes, Single women and widows paying taxes were given a vote. Parliamentary vote to women owning a certain amount of Suffrage to the women of its capital city, Laibach. Women engaged in agriculture vote for members of the Women in all towns, villages and third-class cities vote Full suffrage. Municipal suffrage in capital city. Belize. North American Review. 175: 800-10. December, 1902. Woman's Half-Century of Evolution. Susan B. Anthony. The status of woman in the United States fifty years ago, the progressive steps by which it has been improved, present conditions, future probabilities-in fact, a résumé of the great movement in which Elizabeth Cady Stanton has been the central figure through two generations-this is the sub ject assigned me to consider in the brief space of one magazine article! The title I claim for Mrs. Stanton is that of leader of women. Women do not enjoy one privilege to-day beyond those possessed by their foremothers, which was not demanded by her before the present generation was born. Her published speeches will verify this statement. In the light of the present, it seems natural that she should have made those first demands for women; but at the time it was done the act was far more revolutionary than was the Declaration of Independence by the colonial leaders. There had been other rebellions against the rule of kings and nobles; men from time immemorial had been accustomed to protest against injustice; but for women to take such action was without a precedent and the most daring innovation in all history. Men of old could emphasize their demands by the sword, and in the present century they have been able to do so by the ballot. While they might, indeed, put their lives in peril, they were always supported by a certain amount of sympathy from the public. Women could neither fight nor vote; they were not sustained even by those of their own sex; and, while they incurred no physical risk, they imperilled their reputation and subjected themselves to mental and spiritual crucifixion. Therefore I hold that the calling of that first Woman's Rights Convention in 1848 by Mrs. Stanton, Lucretia Mott and two or three other brave Quaker women, was one of the most courageous acts on record. It must be remembered that at this time a woman's convention never had been heard of, with the exception of the few which had been called, early in the anti-slavery movement, by the women who had been driven out of the men's meetings and had formed their own society; but even these were almost wholly managed by men. A few individual women had publicly advocated equality of rights-the number could be more than counted on one's fingers-but a convention for this purpose and an organized demand had been till then undreamed of. The vigor and scope of the declara Nineteenth Century. 64: 342-52. Ag. '08. Women's Anti-Suf frage Movement. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Reprinted in full in Living Age. 259: 3-11. October 3, 1908. Nineteenth Century. 64: 1018-24. D. '08. Representation of Women: A Consultative Chamber of Women. Caroline E. Stephen. Nineteenth Century. 64: 1025-9. D. '08. Representation of Women. Edward A. Goulding. Nineteenth Century. 66: 1051-7. D. '09. Then and Now. Ethel B. Harrison. Nineteenth Century. 68: 220-6. Ag. '10. Pageantry and Politics. Ethelberta Harrison. Nineteenth Century. 71: 599-608. Mr. '12. Woman Suffrage and the Liberal Party. Charles E. Mallet. North American Review. 178: 103-9. Ja. '04. Woman's Assumption of Sex Superiority. Annie N. Meyer. Her argument is that women have not shown the character necessary for success in political life. North American Review. 190: 158-69. Ag. '09. Impediments to Woman Suffrage. Mrs. Gilbert E. Jones. North American Review. 191: 549-58. Ap. '10. Woman's Relation to Government. Mrs. William F. Scott. Outlook. 75: 737-44. N. 28, '03. Woman's Suffrage in Colorado. Elizabeth McCracken. Outlook. 91: 784-8. Ap. 3, '09. Assault on Womanhood. Lyman Abbott. Outlook. 91: 836-40. Ap. 10, '09. Profession of Motherhood. Lyman Abbott. Outlook. 93: 868-74. D. 18, '09. Melancholia and the Silent Woman. Edwina S. Babcock. *Outlook. 97: 143-4. Ja. 28, '11. Woman Voters' Views on Woman's Suffrage. Outlook. 100: 302-4. F. 10, '12. Women's Rights. Lyman Abbott. Outlook. 101: 26-30. My. 4, '12. For the Twenty-Two Million; Why Most Women Do Not Want to Vote. Ann Watkins. Outlook. 101: 105-6. My. 18, '12. Right of the Silent Woman. |