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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     Woman Suffrage HISTORY ARGUMENTS RESULTS
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     LIBRARY CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT SUBJECT Section VII Woman Suffrage Campaign NO. 37
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     “THE BLUE BOOK” WOMAN SUFFRAGE HISTORY ARGUMENTS AND RESULTS EDITED BY FRANCES M. BJöRKMAN AND ANNIE G. PORRITT National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc. 171 Madison Avenue, New York Revised Edition, May, 1917 154
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     The Spirit of Democracy “Democracy is not merely a form of government; it is a great spiritual force emanating from the heart of the Infinite, permeating, the universe and transforming the lives of men and women until the day comes when it shall take possession of them and shall govern their lives. Then will men be fitted to lift their faces to the source...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     CONTENTS History and Results PAGE Early History 5 Where Women Vote: (1) In the United States 24 (2) In other Countries 73 Arguments Why Women Should Vote 110 Do You Know? 130 Objections Answered 144 The Sentiment for Woman Suffrage 194 The Woman's Protest 227 Twelve Reasons Why Women Should Vote 231 Have We a Democracy? 233 Suffrage School Course (Index) 238
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     ADDENDA 1917 See page 72 for gains made early in 1917. In September the Woman Suffrage Committee of the House of Representatives was created by a vote of 181 to 107. In Ohio, a petition to refer the Presidential Bill to the people was circulated chiefly by the wet interests, and in spite of the fact that in 4 out of 6 counties examined,...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     In England in June, 1917, the Representation of the People Bill passed its third reading in the British House of Commons. This bill, which is a government measure and is expected to pass the House of Lords, will extend the vote to about six million women 30 years of age and over. In Canada in September, 1917, a Bill was passed giving Parliamentary vote...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     5 THE UNITED STATES History of the Movement In the United States, as in Great Britain, there were sporadic movements for women's rights, and even demands for votes for women, long before there was an organized Movement for woman suffrage. Mistress Margaret Brent of Maryland, heir of Lord Calvert, demanded place and voice in the Legislature of Maryland in 1647, and her petition was...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     6 particular care and attention are not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound to obey any laws in which we have no voice or representation.” The only state which gave the right to vote to women after the Revolution was New Jersey. As a colony, Massachusetts permitted property-holding women to vote from 1691...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     7 and Ernestine L. Rose, a polish woman who came to this country in 1836. Both these women claimed equal rights for women, and in 1836-37 Ernestine Rose circulated a petition in Albany, N. Y., in favor of a married women's property law. She could obtain only five signatures, but she presented the petition to the Legislature, where thirteen years later was passed the...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     8 Among the women who were active in this movement were Lydia Maria Child, Abby Kelly, Pauline Wright Davis, Lucretia Mott and Maria Weston Child. The question of allowing women the right to speak and vote in the meetings of the Anti-Slavery Association was so keenly opposed that it not only caused a division in the American movement but greatly disturbed the World's Anti-Slavery...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     9 Seneca Falls, N. Y., on July 19th, 1848 and partly through interest and partly through curiosity it was well attended. Although it had been planned that only women should be present, a number of men had been attracted, and this first woman's convention was presided over and officered by men. A declaration of sentiments, modeled on the Declaration of Independence, had been drawn...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     10 are given to the most ignorant and degraded men—both natives and foreigners. “Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides. “He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead. “He has taken from her all right...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     11 government which recognizes her only when her property can be made profitable to it. “He has monopolized nearly all the profitable employments, and from those she is permitted to follow she receives but a scanty remuneration. He closes against her all the avenues to wealth and distinction which he consider most honorable to himself. As a teacher of theology, medicine or law, she...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     12 make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life. “Now in view of this entire disfranchisement of one-half the people of this country, their social and religious degradation—in view of the unjust laws above mentioned and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     13 Most of the legal and social injustices and restrictions, enumerated in the Declaration, have been swept away in the nearly seventy years since the Seneca Falls Convention. But for most American women there still remains the primal injustice of government without representation. Property rights, the rights, the right to education, to entry into the professions, and to fuller opportunities in life could be...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     14 Changes Since Seneca Falls Convention. The Seneca Falls Convention was so successful that it was adjourned to meet in Rochester. Although as yet there was no permanent organization of women working either for women's rights or woman suffrage, the suffrage movement can be definitely dated from the convention held at Seneca Falls on July 19 and 20, 1848. Four years later, in 1852,...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     15 signed by nearly 8,000 men and women, calling attention to the unjust laws concerning married women and asking “not only the right of suffrage, but all the political and legal rights that are guaranteed to men.” Another woman's rights convention was held in Akron, Ohio, in 1851, and in 1852 the first state suffrage association was formed at Massilon, Ohio. This organization held...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     16 of Indiana had been revised the previous year, and the new constitution gave to women more liberal rights than they had yet possessed in any state. This liberality was largely due to the influence of Robert Dale Owen, who was chairman of the Revision Committee. The changes were widely discussed and as a result a permanent woman's rights society was formed in Indiana...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     17 Preference for the Negro. At the end of the war, the suffrage leaders again took up work for women. But they found that even their friends were not willing to do anything for the women which would embarrass them in regard to their work for the negroes. When the XIV Amendment to the Constitution was drawn up, Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton were...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     18 Previous to 1869 there had been an Equal Rights Association which had for its object to promote the interests of both negroes and women. The XIII, XIV, and XV Amendments safeguarded the rights of the negroes, and it became necessary to form associations which had as their sole purpose to obtain the suffrage for women. The National Woman Suffrage Association was formed at...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     19 years it was the sole region in which women were given equal political rights with men. Enfranchisement by Amendment to United States Constitution. For several years after 1869 some of the leading suffragists were convinced that women were enfranchised under the XIV Amendment-under the provision that “no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     20 her attention to securing the passage of a new amendment—one that should do for women what the XV Amendment had done for the Negroes. In 1875 she drew up a Federal Constitutional Amendment which reads as follows: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     21 state-by-state method alone offered any good prospects of success, and only since women have been enfranchised in twelve states has hope revived of the passage of the Federal Constitutional amendment. Federal Constitutional Amendment. The first introduction of the amendment in Congress was in the Senate on January 10, 1878, by Senator Sargent. In 1878 it was reported adversely to the Senate from committee;...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     22 year and again in 1914 and 1916, it went to the Senate with a favorable majority report. In the House, after 1883, it did not again obtain a favorable majority report until 1890, and these two reports represent the only favorable majorities in the judiciary committee. There were favorable minority reports in 1884 and 1886; an adverse majority in 1894, and the amendment...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     23 vice-president. Miss Anthony remained at the head until 1900, when she was succeeded by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. Four years later, Mrs. Catt was succeeded by Dr. Shaw, who remained in the presidency until 1915, when Mrs. Catt returned to the helm. It was not until 1900 that the Association had regular headquarters in New York City. During its earlier years its business...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     24 Where Women Vote By Frances M. Bjorkman and Annie G. Porritt. The first modern recognition of the right of women to vote was in Kentucky, in 1838, when a very limited school suffrage was conferred on women. Since then about half of the states have granted some form of school suffrage to women and at the present time women can vote in Iowa...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     25 which was passed in Michigan in 1893, had been pronounced unconstitutional. In addition to these small measures of voting power, a number of towns and boroughs have given the franchise to women by means of charters. Among the recent additions to these are East Cleveland, Ohio, and Fellsmere, Cocoa, Clearwater and Delray, Florida; Milford and Newark, Delaware; Annapolis, Md., and Wrightsville, N. C.,...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     26 Suffrage on taxation or bonds: Montana 1887 Iowa 1894 Louisiana 1898 New York 1901 Kansas 1903 Michigan 1908 Municipal suffrage: Kansas 1887 Illinois 1913 North Dakota 1917 Indiana 1917 Vermont 1917 Nebraska 1917 Presidential suffrage: Illinois 1913 Ohio 1917 North Dakota 1917 Indiana 1917 Rhode Island 1917 Michigan 1917 Nebraska 1917 Primary suffrage: Arkansas 1917 Full suffrage: Wyoming 1869 Colorado 1893 Utah 1896...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     27 WYOMING * * “Wyoming—the Pioneer,” by Lewis Edwin Theiss, in the Pictorial Review for Oct., 1913. Full suffrage granted 1869 Population (1910) Total 145,965 Males over 21 63,201 Females over 21 28,840 Percentage of men to women 219.1 Total vote for President in 1912 42,296 Total vote for President in 1916 51,840 No election was ever held in this State at which women...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     28 unquestioned in their own State. At the time statehood was applied for, a determined opposition was made in Congress to the admission of a territory with a woman suffrage clause in its Constitution. So violent was the feeling, that the territorial delegate in Congress, Joseph M. Carey, now Governor of the State, telegraphed the Legislature that he feared statehood would not be granted...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     29 States Weather Bureau, the Mayor of Cheyenne, and a long list of editors, ministers, lawyers, physicians, bankers, and the most prominent women of the State. In 1893, and again in 1899, the House of Representatives adopted resolutions declaring that woman suffrage had been an unmixed advantage to the State. In 1901 the Legislature as a whole unanimously adopted similar resolutions and added an...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     30 of the total number of ballots polled, women forming a minority of the population. In an interview, Hon. Joseph M. Carey, Governor of the State, said that “from eighty to ninety per cent of the women vote.” Though eligible to all offices, Wyoming women have not been office holders to the same extent as women in some of the other suffrage States. Until...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     31 secure the following important measures: Making gambling illegal. Giving women absolute rights over their own property. Making exactly equal inheritance by husband and wife, father and mother; giving band the mother equal rights with the father over The children; limiting the hours of labor of women to ten a day. Providing that men and women teachers shall receive equal pay for equal work....
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     32 COLORADO Full suffrage granted 1893 Population (1910) Total 799,024 Males over 21 271,648 Females over 21 213,425 Percentage of men to women 127.3 Total vote for President in 1892, men only 93,843 Total vote for President in 1896, men and women 189,141 Total vote for President in 1912,. 288,827 Total vote of President in 1916 293,966 History. The first effort to obtain woman...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     33 even that it has failed to effect improvements. Owing to the fact that conditions are more like those in the typical American commonwealth than conditions in any of the other States that have enfranchised women—with the exception of Washington and California, in which the measure is much more recent—Colorado has been chosen for most of the investigations that have been made into the...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     34 In 1899 the Colorado Legislature passed, by a vote of 45 to 3 in the House and 30 to 1 in the Senate, a resolution declaring that during time that equal suffrage had been in operation women had used the vote as generally as men, with the result that better candidates had been selected for office, election methods had been purified, the character...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     35 no way representing the real spirit of Colorado, have circulated statements defamatory to the credit of the State and its womanhood, we believe the times has become when all such silly and slanderous stories should be repudiated by the intelligent and public spirit men of the State of Colorado. “The demand for Colorado bond is far greater than the supply. In per capita...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     36 The number of women voting varies with the importance of the election or with the special interest to women in the issues involved. Helen L. Sumner, in her book, “Equal Suffrage,” * gives a careful summary of all the information available on this point in the years 1906 and 1907 when she made her investigation; and she concludes that a much larger proportion...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     37 L. Riddle, who had sat in the Assembly for several terms, was in that year elected State Senator. Since the adoption of equal suffrage, the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction has always gone to a woman, most of the incumbents serving more than one term. Mrs. Helen. L. Grenfell was twice re-elected, and was the appointed as one of the three...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     38 Effect Upon Legislation. One striking effect of woman been the provision of clean, well-lighted and well-warmed places for polling booths, usually in private houses, churches, fire stations, guild halls or stores—never in saloons. The statutes of Colorado present a most imposing array of laws affecting the welfare of women, children and the home. A large number of these must unquestionably be attributed to...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     39 Establishing a juvenile court; making parents responsible for the offenses of delinquent children, when they have by neglect or any other cause contributed to such delinquency. Forbidding the employment of children in certain industries. Making the wife the head of the family in cases where she provides the principal support. Providing for supervision of lying-in hospitals and maternity homes conducted by private individuals....
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     40 Establishing a State industrial home for girls, three of the five members of the board to be women. Requiring one woman physician on the board of the insane asylum. Providing for the care of the feeble-minded. Making father and mother joint heirs of a deceased child. Establishing a State travelling library commission, to consist of five women from the Colorado Federation of Women's...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     41 Providing for the initiative, referendum, recall, and for direct primaries. At the election of November, 1914, Statewide prohibition was adopted, and in the Session of 1915 a red light injunction and abatement law on the model of the Iowa law was passed. In the same session Colorado adopted a comprehensive workman's compensation act and an industrial disputes act. Before the franchise was granted...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     42 measure adopting equal suffrage, and for seventeen years women voted at all elections and acted as delegates to political conventions and members of territorial and county committees, but they were not eligible to office. In 1887 Congress passed a bill taking away the rights granted by the territorial Legislature, and during the remaining nine years of the territorial period Utah women were without...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     43 Raising the age of protection for young girls to 18. Establishing free public libraries in cities and towns. Requiring in all schools and educational institutions supported wholly or partly by public funds, systematic instruction in physiology and hygiene, including the effects of stimulants and narcotics. Providing for a course of free lectures every year at the capital on sanitary science, hygiene and nursing....
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    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     44 more than nine hours a day or fifty-four hours a week. Providing for medical examination of school children. Authorizing boards of health to take certain steps to protect the public against venereal disease. Providing for sanitary inspection of slaughter houses and other places where foodstuffs are prepared. Creating a juvenile court commission. Establishing a minimum wage for women. Requiring that seats shall be...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     45 Total vote for President in 1912 119,252 Total vote for President in 1916 134,615 No comparison with vote of men only is possible. History. In 1895, immediately after the admission of Idaho as a State, the Idaho Legislature voted Unanimously in the Senate and 33 to 2 in the House, to submit a woman suffrage amendment to the State Constitution, and in 1896...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     46 women themselves. It is not customary for women to serve, however, except in special cases. Effect Upon Legislation. In the first session of the Legislature after they got the vote, women aided materially in getting through a measure of the utmost importance to the young State, namely, an anti-gambling law. In the nine sessions since then they have helped to secure the following...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     47 Providing for the commission form of government. Providing anti-trust regulations. Prohibiting persons of lewd lives, both men and women, from voting. Establishing a nine-hour law for women. Creating mothers’ pensions. Making mothers equal guardians with the father of their children. Giving married women control of their property and earnings. Prohibiting traffic in women. Giving cities and village the power to regulate and suppress...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     48 History. In 1883 the territorial Legislature passed a bill adopting equal suffrage, and for four years the women of Washington voted in as large, or larger, numbers than the men—to such good effect as to call forth glowing encomiums from the State press. In 1886 some question of constitutionality having arisen, the Legislature strengthened the act. Nevertheless, in 1887, certain vicious elements, that...
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     49 for the third time, and won by a majority of 20,000—two to one in every election district. The granting of the vote to women in Washington was generally regarded as the most important victory in the suffrage movement up to that time; for the reason that the feminine population is larger, the general population denser, the cities larger and more numerous, and the...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     50 defeated—again by women's votes. In 1914, secure of Mr. Gill's defeat, the interest put in the field a man whose election they particularly desired. Mayor Gill, in his manifesto, acknowledged his conversion, promised a clean government and was elected by the help of the women's vote. After election he adhered strictly to his promises. Women are also credited with having brought about the...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     51 they gave special support, the following were successful: Creating an eight hour law for women. Establishing an industrial welfare commission to fix hours of employment, standard conditions of labor and minimum wage for women. Providing for workmen's compensation. Creating a teachers’ retirement fund. Creating mothers’ pensions. Providing that a man who refuses to provide for his family shall work in a county stockade...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     52 CALIFORNIA Full suffrage granted 1911 Population (1910) Total 2,377,549 Males over 21 920,397 Females over 21 671,386 Percentage of men to women 137.1 Total vote for Governor, 1910, men only 325,652 Total vote for Governor, 1914, men and women 1,004,902 Total vote for President in 1912, men and women 776,094 Total vote for President in 1916, men and women 1,045,858 History. In 1896...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     53 Extent of Woman Vote. Never in the history of American politics has there been such a registration of voters as that immediately following the enfranchisement of the California women. In Los Angeles, where the first city election was held, practically all women of voting age hastened to place their names upon the rolls, and from 95 per cent. to 99 per cent. of...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     54 while it was probably not designed, except incidentally, to demonstrate the fact that they know how to use their political power, actually did serve that end most admirably. The list of laws passed in this session and in that of 1915 is as follows: The Mothers’ Pension Law, granting aid to needy parents in order to keep the children at home rather than...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     55 The State Training School for Girls, providing a separate institution for girls, with the most approved correctional methods and thorough vocational training. The Teachers’ Pension Law, granting pensions of $500 a year to all teachers who have been in service thirty years. The Net Container Law, specifying that packages shall show the amount of net contents. The Weights and Measures Law, providing for...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     56 The White Slave Law, prohibiting traffic in women between counties. The Tuberculosis Law, providing for the reporting of all such cases. The creation of a commission to investigate the question of old-age pensions. The Workman's Compensation Law, requiring compulsory compensation for injuries, and establishing a system of State industrial insurance. The Water Conservation Law, establishing a Water Commission with authority over all water...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     57 The provision of a public defender for poor persons in criminal cases. The provision of home teachers to work among immigrant families, to instruct children and adults concerning school attendance; in the English language; in sanitation; in household economics; and in American citizenship. The Married Women's Property Law, giving married women complete control of their own property. The extension of the power of...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     58 given in this country to the principle of political rights for women, except for a small measure of school suffrage granted to widows with children of school age in Kentucky in 1838. In 1887, municipal suffrage was granted. In 1894, a constitutional amendment to give women full suffrage was submitted to the voters, but defeated. In 1903, the right to vote on the...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     59 to women. The first Constitution, adopted in 1859, provided that “the legislature shall provide for the protection of the rights of women in acquiring and possessing property, real, personal or mixed, separate and apart from the husband, and shall also provide for their equal rights in the possession of their children.” In 1868, women were given full control of their property and their...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     60 means of support, due to intoxication of husband or father. Giving to wife, child or employer right to damages for injury due to intoxication against owner of place where liquor was sold. Providing that prisoners’ earnings shall be paid to wife and children. Establishing an Industrial Welfare Commission with power to fix minimum rates of wages, maximum hours of work and standard conditions...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     61 1912, it won by a vote of 61,265 to 57,104, a majority of 4,161. School suffrage was granted in 1878. Effect Upon Legislation. During the legislative session of 1913, Oregon papers frequently commented upon the ease with which certain bills, which had previously met with violent opposition, passed through their various stages and became laws. Among them were the following measures: Providing for...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     62 Requiring a medical certificate for men for marriage. Creating Live Stock Sanitary Board. Regulating the sale of dairy products. Providing against the spread of tuberculosis. In 1915 the women's programme included seven measures which became law. They were: An Act creating Juvenile Courts. An Act providing pensions for mothers. An Act permitting schoolhouses to be used as civic centers, and authorizing the use...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     63 History. For nearly fifteen years Arizona women worked without avail to get their Territorial Legislature to exercise its right to confer full suffrage upon them without the referendum to the voters necessary in a State, although they secured school suffrage in 1887. Nor were they successful in their efforts to get a woman suffrage clause included in the Constitution when Arizona was admitted...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     64 which they had that right, was much larger than the percentage of men, who availed themselves at that election and also those held in the past.” Effect Upon Legislation. In the session of 1913 the Legislature elected before the women had the right to vote passed an eight-hour law for women in certain industries; and a law granting pensions to mothers, which was...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     65 Effect Upon Legislature. The mere fact that women were to be on a basis of political equality with men, caused the Legislature to place them on a basis of perfect equality in every other way as far as this lay within its power. Section 495 of the Compiled Laws of Alaska reads: “All laws which impose or recognize civil disability in a wife...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     66 large measure of suffrage which the Legislature, under the Constitution, had the power to extend. In this they were successful in the summer of 1913. The enactment of this law gives them the right to vote for Presidential Electors, for State Board of Equalization, clerk of the appellate court, county collector, county surveyor, board of assessors, board of review, sanitary district trustees, and...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     67 election of November 7, 1916, 289,444 women voted in Chicago alone, as against 154,750 in the primaries of 1915. Effect of Legislation. Immediately after the passage of the measure, a commission to provide for the installation of a municipal garbage reduction plant—for which women had fought for years—was appointed, and the women who had been most active in the movement placed at its...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     68 when the women's vote closed the saloons in the great city of Springfield. In Chicago the influence of the women voters caused the appointment of forty policewomen, and the creation of a court for boys too old for the juvenile court. MONTANA Full suffrage granted 1914 Population (1910) Total 376,053 Males over 21 155,017 Females over 21 81,741 Percentage of men to women...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     69 An Act making both father and mother liable for necessaries for the family. Prohibition by constitutional amendment. In the election of November, 1916, Miss Jeannette Rankin was elected to Congress. Two women were elected to the State Assembly and for the first time in the history of the State a woman, Miss Mary Trumper, was elected Superintendent of Public Instruction. NEVADA Full suffrage...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     70 The Legislature in 1915 greatly displeased the women by passing a bill shortening the time of residence necessary for obtaining a divorce, and the race track bill legalizing gambling. Nevertheless some good measures were passed, including: An Act giving mothers equal rights with fathers over their children. An Act providing for mothers’ pensions. An Act providing for pensions for retired teachers. An Act...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     71 in States where the women have not yet the full franchise. These are: Iowa, 1916; Massachusetts, 1915; Michigan, 1874, 1912, 1913; Missouri, 1914; Nebraska, 1871, 1882, 1914; New Hampshire, 1903; New Jersey, 1915; New York, 1915; North Dakota, 1914; Ohio, 1912, 1914; Oklahoma, 1910; Pennsylvania, 1915; Rhode Island, 1887; South Dakota, 1890, 1894, 1898, 1910, 1914, 1916; West Virginia, 1916, and Wisconsin, 1912....
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     72 campaign against President Wilson on the ground that he and his party had blocked the passage of the Federal Amendment. The Woman's Party, which was organized in Chicago in June, 1916, is an outgrowth of the Congressional Union which since 1913 has devoted its entire attention to the passage of the Amendment to the United States Constitution first introduced by Miss Anthony. A...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     73 EUROPE The northern countries of Europe have always shown themselves more favorable to women than the southern countries. In France, while women take a large share in business and social life, they have as yet been given no political rights. In Germany the sphere of woman has been severely limited, and in the countries bordering on the Mediterranean the woman's rights movement has...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     74 Full franchise granted tax-paying women 1907 Municipal franchise extended to all women 1910 Full Parliamentary franchise extended to all women 1913 Approximate number of women having the full franchise 380,000 Percentage of women eligible who vote 70 Population Total 2,391,782 Men 1,155,773 Women 1,236,009 History. Norway was the first wholly free and independent nation to give full suffrage to even a part of...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     75 This manifestation of public spirit produced a profound impression upon the men of the country, and in 1907 the Storthing entertained two different measures for extending full political rights—one to all women, and the other to those women who already possessed the municipal franchise. The Conservatives, who were interested in keeping the balance of power in the hands of the propertied classes, defeated...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     76 election, Consul General Ravn of New York reported that of the 380,000 women voters about 70 per cent. cast their votes. Office Holding. Women are eligible to Parliament and to all other elective offices. In each municipal election since women have been eligible, a number have been elected to city and county councils. In 1907 twenty women were elected members of municipal councils,...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     77 to the welfare of women and children. Various posts, formerly closed, have been opened to women, and a number of the worst inequalities and injustices in the legal position of women have been removed. A number of the measures introduced into the present Parliament clearly show the influence of a female electorate. Both political parties have shown themselves particularly active in efforts to...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     78 was granted by the Russian Czar, and the full Parliamentary suffrage for women was granted by the first Diet that convened thereafter. Office Holding. Since women became eligible, there has not been an election in which a number have not been elected to the Diet, the fewest being 16 and the highest 25. There were 21 in the Diet, chosen in the elections...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     79 decidedly believe that the work of legislation derives great benefit from the presence in the House of women members.” Effect Upon Legislation. Vera Hjelt makes an abstract from the legislation of the years 1907-1911 of the questions dealt with in the bills introduced by the women members of the Diet. They are: * * “Woman Suffrage in Practice,” p. 60. The raising of...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     80 vice; the appointment of women health inspectors; the intervention of the commune in labor disputes; the establishment of a central social bureau; the construction of new railways; the acceleration of the reform of the laws concerning the treatment of Jews; compulsory education; total prohibition of the sale of alcohol; State reformatories for inebriates; the transformation of the department of justice in the Senate...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     81 Estimated percentage of women eligible who vote 50 to 80 Population Total 85,188 Women 41,083 Men 44,105 History. As was the case in Finland and Norway, public sentiment in Iceland was rendered particularly favorable to granting suffrage to women because of the active part taken by women in a general movement for national independence. In 1874, the struggle of the Icelandic people to...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     82 women of forty years, to ge gradually decreased until it is the same as that of men. Extent of Woman Vote. In the first elections after the women got the full municipal vote, for the town council of Reykjavik in 1908, women cast 1,220 of the total 2,850 votes recorded—an extraordinarily high percentage. In the election of 1912 for town council of Reykjavik...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     83 SWEDEN Municipal franchise granted tax-paying widows and spinsters 1862 Municipal franchise granted all women on the same terms as men 1909 Approximate number of women having the Municipal franchise 1,400,000 Percentage of women eligible who vote 15.2 to 32.9 Population Total 5,521,939 Men 2,698,975 Women 2,822,968 History. Sweden was the first country in the world to extend to women any measure of suffrage...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     84 the conservative element. In 1911 the women made a special effort to secure the election of members of the Liberal and Socialist parties, both of which had included woman suffrage in their platforms. The Conservatives were driven out of power, a strong majority of members pledged to woman suffrage elected to both Houses, and a Liberal Ministry installed. At the opening of Parliament...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     85 restrictions from the vote of men and gave women the communal franchise on the same terms as men, the women had apparently placed little value on their small measure of suffrage as very few took the trouble to go to the polls and record their votes. After 1909, however, the woman vote increased steadily, rising from 15.2 per cent, in 1908 to 32.9...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     86 DENMARK Municipal franchise granted tax-paying women and wives of men who pay taxes 1908 Full suffrage extended to all women 1915 Percentage of women eligible who vote 38 to 70 Population Total 2,757,076 Men 1,337,900 Women 1,419,176 History. Denmark did not give the municipal vote until 1908. The preceding year, 1907, it took its first step by giving women the right to vote...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     87 was the vote of the country districts, where women cannot always leave home to get to the polls., that pulled down the average. In Copenhagen nearly 70 per cent. of the eligible women cast their ballots, and in the other cities the vote of the women ranged from 66 per cent. to 70 per cent., Whereas in some of the country districts it...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     88 also secured some concessions in the matter of property rights. The two large woman suffrage associations are carrying on a work of political education that is fitting the women of Denmark to make a very effective use of their Parliamentary franchise now they have won it. THE BRITISH EMPIRE In great Britain, as in the United States, there was a movement for women's...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     89 1852, it had been provided that “all words importing masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females, unless the contrary is expressely provided.” As there was no express provision limiting the right to men, 5,346 women applied for registration in Manchester, and a case was brought against the registrars for refusing them. The case was decided against the women, but the...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     90 NEW ZEALAND Municipal suffrage granted all women 1886 Full suffrage granted all women 1893 Approximate number of women eligible 300,000 Percentage of women eligible who vote 74 to 85 Population Total 1,008,468 Males 531,910 Females 476,558 History. New Zealand granted the school vote to women in 1877, the municipal vote in 1886, and the full Parliamentary vote in 1893. There are 50,000 Maoris...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     91 got the vote, it frequently fell below 60 per cent. Office Holding. Women are eligible to all elective offices, except membership in Parliament, but as yet, they have not, to any great extent, taken advantage of this right. Effect Upon Legislation. A striking tribute to the work of the New Zealand women was paid in 1914 in a publication issued by the Children's...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     92 testator's wife, husband, or family—a fair division, regardless of sex—and the maintenance of defective and invalid children; making compulsory the maintenance of wife and family upon men, and providing that wages be paid to prisoners for the support of wife and family; creating and regulating industrial and technical schools; providing state aid for expectant mothers; preventing a deserting husband or putative father of...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     93 AUSTRALIA State suffrage granted in South Australia 1895 State suffrage granted in West Australia 1900 State suffrage granted in New South Wales 1902 State suffrage granted in Tasmania 1903 State suffrage granted in Queensland 1905 State suffrage granted in Victoria 1908 National suffrage granted throughout Federated Australia 1902 Number of women having franchise in Federated Australia 1,100,000 Percentage of women eligible who vote...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     94 measure granting women the right to vote for members of the Federal Parliament went through at the first session. New South Wales immediately extended the state franchise, and Tasmania followed in the next year. Queensland put the measure through in 1905, and Victoria in 1908. Extent of Woman Vote. Official election figures show that the percentage of eligible women who actually cast their...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     95 and do not, therefore, appear in the returns. In the election of 1903, 53.09 of the men-electors voted as against 39.96 of the women. In 1910 the percentage had increased to 67.5 of the men and 56.17 of the women. In 1913 the figures were 78 per cent. of the men and 71 per cent. of the women. In the most recent election—that...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     96 helped secure measures providing for equal pay for equal work; equal naturalization laws; protection of juvenile immigrants; regulation of the food and milk supplies; protection of infant life; appointment of police matrons; provision for deserted wives, and maintenance of wives of prisoners out of prisoners’ earnings; establishment of juvenile courts; state support for free kindergartens and playgrounds; establishment of old age pensions and...
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     97 public affairs; (b) to give more prominence to social and domestic legislation. 3. That Australian experience convinces his House that to adopt woman suffrage is simply to apply to the political sphere that principle of government that secures the best results in the domestic sphere—the mutual co-operation of men and women for the individual and general welfare. BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA Municipal suffrage granted...
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    • Date: 1917

About this Item

Title
"The Blue book" : woman suffrage, history, arguments and results
Other Title
Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results
Contributor Names
Maule, Frances, 1879-1966, joint ed.
Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude), 1861-1932, joint ed.
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, former owner.
National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
New York : National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc., 1917.
Contents
1. Early history. -- 2. Where women vote / by F. Bjorkman and A. Porritt. (1) In the United States 24) (2). In other countries. -- 3. Why women should vote / by Jane Addams. -- 4. Do you know? -- 5. Objections answered / by A.S. Blackwell. -- 6. The sentiment for woman suffrage. -- 7. The woman's protest -- 8. Twelve reasons why women should vote. -- 9. Have we a democracy? -- 10. Suffrage school course.
Subject Headings
-  Women--Suffrage--United States
-  Women--Suffrage--History
Notes
-  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Medium
244 p. ; 16 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
JK1901 .M45 1917
JK1881 .N357 sec. VII, no. 37 Another copy. Bookplate inside front cover: library, Carrie Chapman Catt. Gift of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Nov. 1, 1938.
Digital Id
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbnawsa.n4862
Library of Congress Control Number
17024862
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Maule, Frances, Joint Ed, Annie G Porritt, Carrie Chapman Catt, and National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection. "The Blue book": woman suffrage, history, arguments and results. New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1917. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/17024862/.

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Maule, F., Porritt, A. G., Catt, C. C. & National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection. (1917) "The Blue book": woman suffrage, history, arguments and results. New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/17024862/.

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Maule, Frances, Joint Ed, et al. "The Blue book": woman suffrage, history, arguments and results. New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1917. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/17024862/>.

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