Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-01-26 | Page 4 | A Notable Centennial

If A it Notable 11 Centennial I IT T TWENTY FIVE PI hI 1 states tates have havo now ratified the tho woman I suffrage amendment Only eleven elo more are needed in order to to place dace tho the amendment in in tho the fc federal and andew New ew Mexico are ex ex- expected tion An New Jersey Im to act on the proposal soon SOOIl The twenty five states slates which have ratified arc Arkansas California Colorado Illinois J Iowa owa Kansas Kentucky Maine Massachusetts s silt Michigan n Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska New Now Hampshire York fork North orth Dakota Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Dakota Texas Utah and 11 It has been urged that lint there would be a 3 peculiar propriety in concluding tho ratification process on or orby orby orby by the fifteenth of February which 1 will ill bo ho the tuc one of Susan B. B Anthony Anthon hundredth anniversary of tho the but while there is is' is isn n no longer longcr any serious doubt of ol utti- utti matt ratification by hy the tine necessary thirty six states possibly in time t to usher in uni universal suffrage c for women at the elections next fall it will not be possible to secure sufficient states tl in time to d dd tho time motel mooted honor to the great suffragist Susan ell 11 Anthony was a lifelong advocate of woman suffrage c. She hc was born at Adams Massa Massa- Massachusetts the daughter of a Quaker She was u a schoolteacher school schoolteacher teacher from frum 17 Ii to 3 32 years of age acre took a n prom 1 nt part in ill the temperance an and cry antislavery crusades crusade devoted devoted de dc- de- de voted herself ex exclusively ely after 1854 t to the cause cn of womans woman's rights and amid was wa the proprietor from front to 18 1570 O of a n. weekly paper called The Tho Revolution He which had for its motto The true republic republic men men their rights and nothing more women their rights and amid nothing less In IS 1872 she cast a 11 vote ote in the time Presidential election for which act she sho was arrested tried nn and ordered to pay a fine fino of Sh Sic She insisted that she ha had a right rig to to vote ote and never ne paid tho time fine Sho She lived hired until 1900 by hy which time the equal suffrage o movement had made muade a ag good d deal of progress prop and no doubt she retained to the thc last her confidence in its eventual e success The present federal suffrage amendment unofficially hears bears her n name having ing been originally intro introduced into Congress Cong on her initiative more than half a century ago o. The celebration of the consummation of or her years of effort nta have to he be postponed it is reasonably reasonably reason reason- ably ubly certain that that her her hundred and first birthday anniversary anniversary anni anni- will seo see the Susan B B. B Antimony Anthony amendment incorporated incorporated in in- into time tho constitution