But wanting to hide those votes began to seem eminently reasonable to reformers both in the United States and in Britain, where suffrage had also been expanding.
In 1907 there was an International Conference of Socialist Women in Stuttgart where suffrage was described as a tool of class struggle.
In the Council, where suffrage was reliant upon wage and property requirements, the ALP only held four seats out of twenty, and only five LCL members supported the nationalisation.
But this concerned the rural conservatives little, who hoped to retain their hold on power through the present system, which included a Legislative Council where suffrage was based on land ownership, resulting in a body dominated by the ruling class and the rural landholders, and a 16 4 LCL majority.
At the time the only nations not requiring a minimum level of income as a qualification for voting were France and Switzerland where universal suffrage was introduced only in 1848.
(And before you fire off your angry tweetmails, I'm well aware that February 15th is also Susan B. Anthony Day, when schoolkids learn about women's suffrage, except in Texas where they learn about America's proud heritage of uncirculated dollar coins).
In October 1906, after she had submitted a few articles for the Guardian, Sharp was asked by the Guardian to report on a suffrage rally in Tunbridge Wells where NUWSS leader Millicent Fawcett was speaking.
In addition to her writing and speaking, Stanton was also instrumental in promoting women's suffrage in various states, particularly New York, Missouri, Kansas, where it was included on the ballot in 1867, and Michigan, where it was put to a vote in 1874.
Despite these efforts, the nature and meaning of Roman citizenship were bound to change, as the citizen body became ever more diffuse and lived dispersed from Rome, the only place where the right of suffrage could be exercised.
This got them into some hot water, especially in the United States where the women's suffrage movement had an explicit streak of racism: some American suffragists even argued that giving white women the vote was essential to safeguard "white supremacy".
