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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