Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1904 — American Orange For Womans Equality. [ARTICLE]

American Orange For Womans Equality.

The American Grange Bulletin and Scientific Farmer, the official representative of the National Grange, in a recent issue published “The Grange Declaration of Purposes,” and in announcing its “Ideal of Womanhood” said: — "The Grange was the first of fraternal organizations to reconize woman’s equality with man —a fact that is of lasting honor to the Founders of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. It is worthy of particular note that the right of woman to an equal voice and vote in Grange meetings was not formerly announced but simply taken for granted. There was no struggle for rights; there was no demand for privileges; but as man and woman have equal responsibilitiesin the home, it was naturally and proplery assumed that they should stand on a common level in an organization made up of the home-keeping people of the country.” The position of the Grange, representing as it does the great body of American farmers, is the strongest possible assurance of the eventval establishment of woman suffrage. “My constituency,” said General Jackson, “begins with the first cross-road out of town.” With the Grange and the Federation of Labor on the side of woman suffrage, success is only a question of time.