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state. Diet of the Crown . . Suffrage to the women of its capital city Prince of Krain Laibach. (Austria) India (Gaekwar of . . Women in his dominions vote in municipal Baroda) elections. Wurttemberg . . . . . Women engaged in agriculture vote for Kingdom of members of the chamber of agriculture; also eligible. New York. . . . . . . Women in all towns, villages and third-class cities vote on bonding propositions. 1911 California. . . . . . Full suffrage. Honduras. . . . . . . Municipal suffrage in capital city, Belize. Iceland . . . . . . . Parliamentary suffrage for women over 25 years. 1912 Oregon. . . . . . . . Full suffrage. Arizona . . . . . . . Do. Kansas. . . . . . . . Do. 1913 Alaska. . . . . . . . Do. Norway. . . . . . . . Do. Illinois. . . . . . . Suffrage for statutory officials (including presidential electors and municipal officers). 1914 Iceland . . . . . . . Full suffrage. In the United States the struggle for the franchise has entered national politics, a sure sign of its widening scope. The demand for equal suffrage was embodied in the platform of the Progressive Party in August, 1912. This marks an advance over Col. Roosevelt's earlier view, expressed in the _Outlook_ of February 3, 1912, when he said: "I believe in woman's suffrage wherever the women want it. Where they do not want it, the suffrage should not be forced upon them." When the new administration assumed office in March, 1913, the friends of suffrage worked to secure a constitutional amendment which should make votes for women universal in the United States. The inauguration ceremonies were marred by an attack of hoodlums on the suffrage contingent of the parade. Mr. Hobson in the House denounced the outrage and mentioned the case of a young lady, the daughter of one of his friends, who was insulted by a ruffian who climbed upon the float where she was. Mr. Mann, the Republican minority leader, remarked in reply that her daughter ought to have been at home. Commenting on this dialogue, _Collier's Weekly_ of April 5, 1913, recalled the boast inscribed by Rameses III of Egypt on his monuments, twelve hundred years before Christ:
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