Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1892 — Woman Suffrage Growing. [ARTICLE]

Woman Suffrage Growing.

Is woman suffrage making any progress in the world? Yes, it ie steadily extending. Thirty of the States and Territories have given women some form of suffrage, generally in local and school matters. In Canada women vote for all elective officers except members ol the Legislature and Parliament. In Europe, as in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Prance, Sweden, Russia, Hungary, Italy, Finland, there are conditions where woman suffrage is allowed. In British Burmah, in the Madras and Bombay presidencies, women can vote at municipal elections. In all the lands and coloniee of Russian Asia women, heads of households, vote In municipal elections. In Iceland and in the Isle of Man full woman suffrage prevails. In Tasmania, Sicily. Sardinia and Corsica partial woman suffrage exists. The question is warmly agitated in all our States, and comes up in some form at every session of our Legislatures. The movement, too, is under way in Germany, Denmark, Greece and Switzerland. Woman suffrage is rapidly extending, or such agitation is going on as will result in Its extern sion at no distant day.