WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1212, 22 August 1911, Page 5

WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

If— FAST TO RAISE FUNDS. til Teltcrapti-l'rL'a- A.-<ociati"n -i.'oDyrieht New York, August 20. Thousands of women Suffragists in New York Staia are p.a'nning to last Jor a wees, in order to raise funds for -a campaign. llie Suffragists of California, ara making similar arrangements. A vote on the question will bo taken at Sacramento in October. PROGRESS OF THE MOVEMENT. ;. Writing of tho progress of the woman suffrage movement' in America, tho Now i'urk "Independent" said a while back: "For* over iorty years Wyoming has. llad a regime of equality. From Wyomin" it spread to its border States on two sides; first to Utah, next to Colorado, then fa Idaho, and now it is adopted by Washington, adjoining Idaho on the west. The cause makes 'friends as it goes, for example is better than argument. The objections that are raised in advance to woman suffrage on theoretical ground?, and that are sometimes difficult to refute tin these grounds, van- ■ ish entirely when brought face to face with practical experience extending over a generation. ' "The experiment is being tried now on a sufficiently large scale to make the I results of value. The population of the ! five suffrage States is about three million and their combined area is greater 1 than that of all the Atlantic States, from ' Maine to Florida.' It is not surprising i Iliac the movement originated on the crest of t'ha Continent, for mountain i peoples are by nature democratic and liberty-loving; Hut freedom from its * mountain height will flow down into the lowlands, nt first towards the west, but' i iator, we believe, to the cast, even to 1 tlie coast. "There are only two influences which ' seem to us capable of checking the move- ' Mont': a general reaction against democracy and a determination to keep women ignorant and dependent. . . . Fioth these reactionary influences are uu- . rteniably at work, though how strong , they will prove t'o be remains to be seen. • Every Western State, however poor and I sparsely populated, offers a free college ; (o all of its women. Not all of the Eastern States do that, and in 1 some of them—New Jersey and Connecticut, for example—no woman can get a ' college education at any cost."