which the Council had drawn up
favoring the right of married women to vote in municipal elections. Thus
supported, the resolution was presented to the authorized commission, but
here it was weakened by an amendment (granting the suffrage only to
married women _owning property_). The author of this amendment, a member
of the Toronto City Council, received his reward for this kindness to the
women in the form of a defeat at the next election.

Organizations favoring woman's suffrage have been founded throughout the
country (Halifax, Nova Scotia; St. John, New Brunswick). Woman's suffrage
advocates speak in mass meetings and in men's clubs, etc.[54]

A demand for woman's suffrage, made by the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, was answered evasively by the Prime Minister, Sir Wilfred
Laurier,--the provincial parliaments must take the matter up first, then
the Dominion Parliament can consider it. In the spring of 1909 the City
Council of Toronto sent a petition favoring woman's suffrage to the
Canadian Parliament, and at the same time 1000 woman's suffrage advocates
called on the Prime Minister. The 1909 Congress of the International
Woman's Suffrage Alliance will undoubtedly help the Canadian woman's
suffrage movement.

SOUTH AFRICA

_Natal and Cape Colony_[55]
Total population: 1,830,063.
_Transvaal_
Total population: 1,354,200.

Woman's Suffrage Association for all three countries.

In South Africa, Natal was the leader in the woman's rights movement. In
1902, through the work of Mr. and Mrs. Ancketill, the Woman's Equal
Suffrage League was organized, which endeavored primarily to interest and
educate its members. Later, in 1904, public propaganda was begun. In June
a petition was presented to the Lower House by Mr. Ancketill. When he
presented the matter in the form of a motion, it was not put to a vote,
owing to the newness of the subject. The agricultural population opposes
woman's suffrage; the urban population favors it. The woman's rights
movement is made difficult in South Africa by the following circumstances:
An enervating climate "that makes people languidly content with things as
they are." The lack of educated and independent women (women teachers are
state employees); the lack of a numerous class of workingwomen; difficult
housekeeping, owing to the untrustworthiness of the natives as domestic
servants; the peculiar position of men as taxpayers (men only pay a poll
tax) and as ar