d legislators and distributed literature. In
this work she had the able assistance of Mrs. Ana Roque Duprey, the
first president of the San Juan Suffrage League, editor of the above
paper and later of _El Heraldo de la Mujer_--_The Woman's Herald_,
with Mrs. Froscher as the American editor.

In August, 1917, at the first session of the new Legislature, a bill
was introduced in the Lower House to give women the right to hold
office but without the right to vote and one to give them equal
rights. Later two more bills were introduced but none was passed. As
Porto Rico is an unincorporated Territory of the United States, its
women were not enfranchised by the Federal Suffrage Amendment in 1920.
At three consecutive sessions of the Legislative Assembly a petition
for woman suffrage has been presented.

FOOTNOTES:

[213] The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. Jeannette Drury
Clark, a graduate of the University of California, who with her
husband, John A. Clark, an attorney, has made her home in Fairbanks
for the past fifteen years.

[214] History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV, pages 325, 343, 346, 446.

CHAPTER LI.

PROGRESS OF THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

1900 - 1920.[215]

I consider it an honor to have been asked to take up the pen from the
date 1900, when my dear friend and colleague, the late Helen
Blackburn, laid it down after writing the chapter on Great Britain for
Volume IV of the History of Woman Suffrage. I am particularly
fortunate in that it falls to my lot to include the year 1918, when
Victory crowned our fifty years' struggle in these islands to obtain
the Parliamentary franchise for women.

Several circumstances entirely outside our power of control combined
to promote the rapid growth of the movement at the beginning of the
XXth Century. The chief of these were the South African war,
1899-1902, and the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. The war with the
Transvaal was caused by the refusal of President Kruger and his
advisers to recognize the principle that taxation and representation
should go together. The so-called Uitlanders, who formed a large
proportion of the population of the Transvaal and provided by taxation
a still larger proportion of its revenue, were practically excluded
from representation. This led to intense irritation and ultimately to
war. It was, therefore, inevitable that articles in the press and the
speeches of British statesmen dealing with