Woman Suffrage

WHEN or where the woman suffrage movement began is difficult to say. It is doubtless as old as the man suffrage movement, for in primitive society, in separated and distant parts of the world, tribes of unrelated races have had a simple form of democracy in which men and women each had an important, and in some cases an equal voice in tribal affairs. Platntc uciinlKr rrprlitprl with hpincr flip firci nrrmVipf of tll£^time to come when tneii and avomeu i&ouki unite, m forming" a government hasprl upon "ilie will of. the. neoole." Here and there, through the centuries intervening since that day, a solitary figure has arisen to repeat these views to a shocked and contemptuous world.In the struggle upward toward political freedom, men had to overcome the powerful influence of the universally believed " Divine Right of Kings" and Class to rule; women met the same opposition menTable of Contents A World Review of Woman Suffrage1587; PART II; Woman Suffrage in the United States1641; PART III;