Women Suffrage

Most people believe women only received the right to vote because of the big god government's 19th Amendment. This is what most young people are taught in the government owned and operated school prisons.

What few people know is that Wyoming allowed women the right to vote in 1869, before the 19th Amendment. Before the 19th Amendment there were thirteen other states that allowed women full suffrage. Other states allowed partial suffrage, and only 9 states had no suffrage of any kind for women.

Try to imagine how the people lived in the past. The early founders were not even sure the republic would succeed. They also feared they would be hanged if they lost the revolution. They struggled with how to form the republic and how to administer it. Some advocated for a monarchy where the people could not vote.

After the republic became successful some women started to demand the right to vote. Polling places were in saloons, where ladies could not go.

Many women lived on farms, miles from the polling place. Most women had large families to care for. There were no fast food restaurants on the dirt roads to the polling places. Try to imagine a mother of small children and a baby getting up early in the morning, loading them into a wagon on a rainy cold day, to ride over bumpy roads to a polling place of drunken men, just to vote.

If women wanted the right to vote why did they not ask for the right 500 years earlier, before men asked for the right? If women could demand the right to vote then why did they wait so long? Did women take the right to vote or did men give them the right to vote? If they took the right to vote, then they could take the right to vote, so why did they wait so long to take the right to vote?

It is easy for us to judge people from the past. I wonder how future generations will judge us? Future generations will have artificial intelligence. They will live a life without fear and emotions. They will go to a zoo and look at some cloned humans of the 21st century and they will laugh at the irrationally of the 21st century humans, humans who enjoyed wars.

Charles Tolleson