itical equality with Protestants.

The next great movement was the elimination of the land
qualification and on this we find that history is practically
silent. In Connecticut and Rhode Island a small petition was
presented to the Assembly asking for its removal. In New York in
the constitutional convention of 1821 when some members advocated
its removal others asked, "Where is the demand? Who wants to vote
that has no land?" The answer was that there had been some
meetings in New York in behalf of removing this qualification. No
one of them had seen such a meeting but some members had heard
that a few had been held in the central districts of the State.
This constitutes the entire demand that has been made by the men
of our country for the vote.

In contrast we may ask what have women done? Again I may say that
New York is a fair example because it is the largest of the
States in population and has the second city in size in the world
and occupies perhaps the most important position in any land in
which a suffrage referendum has been taken. Women held during the
six months prior to the election in 1915, 10,300 meetings. They
printed and circulated 7,500,000 leaflets or three-and-a-half for
every voter. These leaflets weighed more than twenty tons. They
had 770 treasuries in the State among the different groups doing
suffrage work and every bookkeeper except two was a volunteer.
Women by the thousands contributed to the funds of that campaign,
in one group 12,000 public school teachers. On election day 6,330
women watched at the polls from 5:45 in the morning until after
the vote was counted. I was on duty myself from 5:30 until
midnight. There were 2,500 campaign officers in the State who
gave their time without pay. The publicity features were more
numerous and unique than any campaign of men or women had ever
had. They culminated in a parade in New York City which was
organized without any effort to secure women outside the city to
participate in it, yet 20,000 marched through Fifth Avenue to
give some idea of the size of their demand for the vote.

What was the result? If we take the last announcement from the
board of elections the suffrage amendment received 535,000
votes--2,000 more than the total vote of the nine States where
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