The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News and The Echo. UNKNOWN WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN AMERICA.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 30 May 1914, Page 4

The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News and The Echo.

UNKNOWN WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN AMERICA.

For fJm rw.i_.9i that lark* ns.sij>tamx<, Vnr the vyra-nq f.h/tr ncr-is rrwi."r. ario., For thr future. ..... the. distance. And the good that tee can. do.

M.Liliiiil >;ifl'r;__o c:ini;ia._'ti ~- i.iat .: !i;l----li.\,".| the altciition ~: i.-,,. public ~n us u.i n method.-, aiiij 1-,| tiie mat-- of men and women t . believe [.ha.t the whole .i_.l-t.ioii ha- : ii. an,) ;- !„:„_. ~.„. .liiclcl with v:.e!vii.-e. A- a mailer ol I.i. I. U'l-'aci :.s tl niy .- oiiur- in v. iii.-'i women Suf. ra-n-t - :i;i\. r—urle.l the ev.t rem,- unlit.in: -kM-iety. ! the Women's r-oci.-tl an-l Politic.! I mon, i.et.te.- .„!-, ,_nc _-,-. li;. ani-ii--, ncre Ih.iti a -oro of s'v-ietirs workiii. for p.-nl:.ir I- I'.nt-i;-.. .: j, v,,-|.; „-i,ie. reaccnj- evc-i _~ — „,„,. ami unexpected .. Lind .- ililjin. liter- v. scarcely a Ki.ropr.-in country ,i ; .,, hi... c, a pr.v ; i_■_ n.i._ . \ cpl i :- v ~;' : ~. „ ma ||er "iintricr. vh. :-,- i ,- t,_..,, '~.,_ | Jf .,-,, arcoly fon.-hi , , ~ •:.,-.,. ~ ~.,,,;_,- ~ ,„. -.. n.'ilr.c. l-'rajice. '~--.„,,;:.. , in ,l Kii.-ia. Cae prnpassin.l.i ... v i._.-.ro.i_ .-nono-h, bill | ' has lee,, mci to a ,ioierniirnv| .-.■.„ .■-? : ""' , ' "' ":'■'.' le 'ii I'-JI-e." ill | t al... -ili-rc : acre n.-i- :„ . ii .„,„ >, ;.... /r ,,i on tnc ratlu-i tmi I an.l i ,. W ra a i,.,,- j ma ny. ■\pa--l I'roni t!i -ci.-a-ii .ii;C ,!evp|op. menu- of militancy. ahi".ri are quite c.xiraner, ,- to Uie r e, i jssrje. the centre of intcrptM for Uie pa si three vca rs has bPPII the | ni ;el ,-, n; ,,- rath ,,. )h3 _ Britain, uhpre. between tr.e militani,-. and ihe l_i.vprnmp.nt there 1., somethhilike a de.a.,lk„ k. In America the position is thi.-: thp vote is h, in- won separalelv in one. --~te afle,- another in Moroni-.' ot .[hp -rate- i ...vrimi.-ii'.... hu: i'ne Sufl'ra;r>t* i.i uhi-e-v !,e ; „| _ r ,.._ Anni .-Ita.'.vi ar>- .oncent.ra: in-; hrir alien lion npo-i .-.ipdinn; t.he Ke.lP-al voir. •nd i'c-e : i, v lave s , ; ~- -~,- irj ,j, a poliio |,„i immovable .leni.-il. The s;r:i-_- h ..- ,-.c. n - .;nr. nn almrvt an Inn. I.i \ ttur ■.■.. a- oi Kn-1.i0,;, ami thorp war. a I,mo when the Am mean Hufiraj.-;,, e.crupied ihe |e.„ii n e- position. The.-,- vvpre :',.. stirring days of Susan P.. Ar'Jion;,. When the ' ..;:,-:,: u-j. lrl Was alte-ed after eie. .'-i.il War so a~i ... enf;-t|-,f'. ; i.,-e nejroei-, I mi tan* and feel-eipier- Mile, had _V)ll£|lt for t !lP , I'ninn. tap qupfdion of jrtvin;; women a vol-., i.ec.inie a. live .nip. and some public men .were. in fatvotir of "freeiner our white faster- heforp our hlaek hrn-hc.r*.." P-ni. .the only vipfinilp triumph uas i:i Wyo-ninj,. w'lerp vrom?n have voted ititi. - l-tif Th - cvam-plc of Wyomrn;:. ' Ip firM. pi .ro in the world ; o concr-le I 'no riti. wns very mtir.h in | paiou. Wry few Sta.T-es followed tile, pre-ceii-i-n:. iini.l .about. i ii roe years afro. wire', one r>: the JTPatPst -triumph.- was settiiTrd in < ilifornia. t-lnen ihen ,-pvrral ot'-i-er Mate:- li.xi-p followpd. irrin;rin' r ihe 'i.o;al rmm.wr in In le:i. Over t.hreo million Atneric-iP -women now vo'p in the Tre-siilemfial plpo.tinns. P.„! ,n '.'le'.r pre-a.t.ri-: objpr:. t:ip l'p-1 r-,-_.I vote, they senn to be in Ihe samp posiI inn a", they iver" forty five year.- u.j;o. They -avp alwayc- follnnvp.l Lie s.imei same lesull. ,-inco in ISfifl the N'al ional I Uv'nmpn .'siirTrace. Assoi-.a:ion of Anie.riea I f-r' '- first !.o the Capitol a*. Wain npt-n. pf t.?finninr; frrr an ' arnpn-dmpn: to :he <"onßtt..ut_on t.o af, -o tr.liKio vvomen tun-e'ino; e)<—toirsi F/StPTy then a. h'tnila' dele.ga.t.nrt us srit io jmiit ion-OnogT——, nn<i every yea - 4 he a n> ennTt—Ously -eeeiv/vl, and ci he;- pM.ii.ion, ..-ism-isse... N'i'..i;lv always : l *,« referred to a OrvniHalf a. '.o7pn time.- a. report has heoD made, .by- ihej-Ooirr_—it__ .r>-tif. .Tlcnihp, o__j-_< ih&-Jr*-ote. For

I the past r.in-t—'it years no report h._ ' tppeare.i. 'Tlio argumrm of \'.v Air.er.[..in An:i-SufTra-i.__. .r- that the fran.-hVo . j.- not a —tiller for ;'i- Kedt-ral (.overn- ! i men: to de.-i.lp. 'but for ..oh separa.;o ' , Sta..-. M ,-s .lane. Addams, .:\ ropiv. , . p.-.ii.- .nit that i: i- :.e: K.-d.'Tal llnwrtimen: -hi: :ia- alr-.a-i-.- --nfraj,e_ii_,ed lineolourpri :,opiil.i;.;.-m iii"!<t V.'c l A.I War. i'fs ar-umpiit '-i.it. never been fairly met. tliou-h nn- paper repk-s tli.i.t n.. eijnjrs iiaic 1.e.--.i made 1-. tic i.'onstilutiein T-x.-ept I"' tho t ivH War iinld ;- fortunale. .-ill.c the Uriti-h J-ulTrajri.-l-I f.iiiit 1 incitPinPiit 1., rebep.,n ,:. ;;,.. ! Americi. :i...v..er. r-v.-i Mrs I'.iiikliiir-: Jm.ii. oi>irained •:.. declnre •!,,,: nioilant [mc I ieo.l- .i -.ill not he eictai.!-. W'i'h. i o-i. I.i.s rt.i'eiiient. 'ii- Amen,-ni -utTra-j j li-t''ii In her for f.-.ir nf pri-jud.p.ns ! Stale I'lMiicic-.. for ivunv-'-n, they ha.\e I been miie-'u iiii' r-a:nc in Auu-rica a.- in j 1\,.» /.ciLuid and everywhere ,•',.,■ wh-ere j: 1 ...;, iu.e- -broii tried. There li.it. itceii uoihiii- to cat-tic -.he nio.-t . onsorvalli\e aeiiun- Mien and women, and lie fevie- of .n .ipproaiiiiti-; s"\ revolliuon ;.i- iicr.our, trilt-ion of ihe liniiv. AV,i----jt.n.-' pir'v in .my couatry. A ljr_r"i , Ttm.lv...i i-.f thetn voip under Ihe in--], 'cn.e .-.f ;',ieir husbands or fa.thers. who '_o nut more into the world than they i' ..-.tisplvcs do O'-ier women «ho -.ke> it sne.-;a! mrrrr—t in s.-,.-'il and political I forrr*. .-o far. they have noi eyrn : ilteicl -he balance •■: pirt.es- pr-eepp-i'.ibl.f. I.iei::_"i thpy have sweiled ' :ip i 'recent C-1-.K-: ioi_s in llHnoie*. t .c ,".ne i.--ue j iivhnh th.-y <li.-t;ne-rly uffpvle. was nuti ! :.,,,,.,;- Ipoisla-lion. A similar r-ult •'- j c uiTP'i ill Now Zealand, and we may .-.vi- | jcv-irp .lit*' a-f'er twenty-1 wo >-n r- of, women eiilTra.p ;hc I'niip-l Maii\s 'till . I