Page 8 - Issue 22

“Men may laugh and jeer and fume, as much as they please
about this matter of ‘woman’s rights;’ they cannot escape
the issue. As sure as the indomitable barons of England
wrung Magna Carta from King John at Runnymede, so will
the women of the 19th century extort from the ‘lords of
creation,’ (who have held them in servile dependency from
the beginning of the world) something like an equal share of
political and social rights. Whether the doctrine of ‘woman’s
rights is in the judgment of the present generation consonant
with the ‘eternal fitness of things’ or not, it is nevertheless
designed to gain ground, and ultimately to prevail.”

2. In 1893, Elizabeth Cady Stanton became the first
woman to campaign for federal office. Here’s what
she had to say:
“Woman suffrage means a complete revolution in our
government, religion, and social life; a revision of our
Constitution, an expurgated edition of our statute laws and
codes, civil and criminal. It means equal representation in the
halls of legislation and in the courts of justice; that woman
may be tried by her own peers, by judges and advocates of
her own choosing. It means light and sunshine, mercy and
peace in our dungeons, jails, and prisons; the barbarous idea
of punishment superseded by the divine idea of reformation.
It means police matrons in all our station-houses, that young
girls when arrested during the night, intoxicated and
otherwise helpless, may be under the watchful eye of
judicious women, and not left wholly to the mercy of a male
police.”

3. In terms of the Zionist Movement, by the Second
Zionist Congress held in Basle, Switzerland in 1898,
women were allowed to become members and vote.
This preceded universal suffrage in both the USA
(1920) and the UK (1928). In January 1926 in the