In response to a petition from the society, the legislature in the winter of 1885 passed a law, giving to the tax-paying women of the city the right to vote on school questions at the charter elections.
The society at once made a thorough canvass of the city, which resulted in the attendance of seventy tax-paying women at the school election in September, when the first woman's vote was cast in Manistee county.
For the past eight years a dozen tax-paying women of this town have availed themselves of the privilege granted them years ago, and voted at the school meetings; and two years ago a woman was elected member of the school-board.
Tax-paying women, a vote on all municipal questions.
In 1898 Minnesota gave women the right to vote for library trustees, Delaware gave school suffrage to tax-paying women, and Louisiana gave tax-paying women the right to vote upon all questions submitted to the tax-payers.
In 1901 New York gave tax-paying women in all towns and villages of the State the right to vote on questions of local taxation; and the Kansas Legislature voted down almost unanimously a proposal to repeal municipal suffrage.
No, they can not persuade me that it would be a right or even a politic thing to ask that only educated, tax-paying women be enfranchised.
A few weeks ago I attended a meeting of the tax-paying women of Rochester who met in the Mayor's office in that city, and there, like their revolutionary mothers, formed a league against taxation without representation.
Water is soon to be brought in from Hemlock Lake, and a dozen other projects are on foot, all of which require money, and towards all of which, the money of tax-paying women will be taken without their consent.
We are taxed to support this Government--this immense Capitol building is built largely from the industries of the tax-paying women of this country--and yet we are denied the slightest voice in distributing our taxes.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paying women" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
