Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania, one of the first steps was to give all women full national suffrage.
In the countries of continental Europe the evolution of local women's organizations to State and National Unions had been the same as in the United States and in England. But the majority of these societies remained conservative in regard to woman suffrage. Germany since 1813 has had the "Vaterlaendische Frauenverein" (Patriotic Women's League), a union of wonderful helpers for suffering humanity, both in peace and in war. Since 1865 a "General Association of German Women" tried to secure new rights for women, both along political and economic lines. A "Society for Woman Suffrage" was not formed before 1902. But only two years later the "International Suffrage Alliance" was formed in
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Berlin, with Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, of New York, as president. The progressive movement in Germany took largely the form of educational and industrial training. And the women shared the national belief that education precedes every good, and that for their legal and political protection from injustice they might rely upon their male relatives.
In certain districts of Germany, Austria, Denmark, Hungary and Russia women who owned property, were per-
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