Women’s Suffrage

A post to capture clippings on women’s suffrage as discovered:

Los Angeles Herald, 19 May 1911
CHICAGO WOMAN REFUSES
TO PAY TAX UNTIL GIVEN VOTE

CHICAGO, May 18.—Miss Belle Squire, member of the No Vote, No Tax league, who last year caused something of a sensation by refusing to pay taxes unless given the right to vote, yesterday indicated she would assume the same position this year.
Miss Squire filed a blank personal property tax schedule with the board of assessors with the following notation:
“As a rational being, I protest against the double insult of being classed among the criminals, idiots, insane, the incompetents and minors of the state by the government under which I was born and live, and then being forced by law to help support by my labor the government that so humiliates me. For this reason I absolutely refuse to fill in the schedule herein provided.”

 

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