Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1887 — No Nonsense Now. [ARTICLE]

No Nonsense Now.

In lowa, under the name of lowa, there never has been a suffrage that had to pay tax to vote. When we were unfortunate enough to be a helpless part of Missouri, and after when we were a part of Michigan, suffrage was restricted to those who had paid territorial taxes. When, fifty years ago last July, we became a part of Wisconsin, “all free white male citizens” were entitled to vote, and the prerequisite of tax-paying omitted from the qualifications of voters. It is an interesting item of history that in no part of the Union, east of the west line of lowa, except in lowa and Minnesota; have the people always exercised the right of suffrage without prepayment of some sort of tax.— lowa State Register.