We stand before you as citizens of the United States, qualified, intelligent, taxpaying women, who demand for ourselves the same right to make the Government under which we live that has been given to men.
The Louisiana association asks for the ballot for educated and taxpaying women only and its officers believe that in this lies "the only permanent and honorable solution of the race question.
I think that taxpaying men are just as capable of taking care of my rights as of their own and I feel that I am justified in saying that the men can quite as well look after that which ought to be and is their business as I can.
The taxpaying Japanese becomes a voter at the age of twenty-five.
In Pennsylvania, a leader in local affairs cried out against a plan to remove the taxpaying limitation on the suffrage: "What does the delegate propose?
In carrying their theory into execution they placed taxpaying or property qualifications on the right to vote.
By vesting in the provincial councils the choice of a portion of the senators, who should be eligible regardless of taxpaying qualifications, it was hoped to impart to the Senate a more broadly representative character.
The most striking feature of the election of 1907 was the gains made by the Social Democrats and the Christian Socialists, to be explained largely by the extension of the franchise to the non-taxpaying and small taxpaying population.
This might appear strange, since under universal suffrage the non-taxpaying and non-landowning majority would be expected to dominate.
The millions of dollars which are thus given back to the churches do not come out of the air, but out of the pockets of the taxpaying citizens.
It has been mentioned before that under Augustus the taxation of the provinces was revised to correspond more closely to their taxpaying capacity.
Their place in the imperial provinces was taken by the procurator and his agents, in the senatorial at first by the proconsul assisted by the taxpaying communities themselves and later by imperial officials.
At the convention held at Saco in 1902 plans were made to ask the next session of the Legislature to grant Municipal suffrage to taxpaying women.
It had already secured a partial franchise for taxpaying women and its achievements in the following years made it an acknowledged power.
Several hundred personal letters were written to leading taxpaying women asking their opinion of the league's movement; only favorable replies were received and many friends of the cause developed among the influential women.
The total result was a law in 1901 giving to taxpaying women in the towns and villages a vote on propositions to raise money by special tax assessment, which was signed by Governor Benjamin F.
The gaining of partial suffrage for taxpaying women and this campaign are fully described in the Louisiana chapter in Volume IV of the History of Woman Suffrage.
She had organized several departments in the association and was in charge of the campaign to secure Municipal suffrage for taxpaying women.
Her greatest monument was the vote of taxpaying women on bond issues.
In 1897 Ignatius Donnelly secured the introduction of a bill to enfranchise taxpaying women.
She made a strong argument in the name of taxpaying women and of mothers but was told that the State constitution limited the suffrage to males.
All efforts were centered on the bill to give taxpaying women the right to vote on questions of taxation.
In 1899 a bill was presented asking "exemption from taxation for the taxpaying women of Maine," on the ground that "taxation without representation is tyranny.
Dodge was at the head of the eighteen women who came from the anti-suffrage society to protest against taxpaying women being granted a representation on questions of taxation.
She described also the efforts made to obtain suffrage for women in the new constitution of Louisiana the preceding year, which resulted in securing the franchise for taxpaying women on all matters submitted to taxpayers.
The majority report of the committee, however, contained only this clause: "All taxpaying women shall have the right to vote in person or by proxy on all questions of taxation.
Half of the time was spent in Columbia, assisting Mrs. Young and others in the effort to have an amendment giving suffrage to taxpaying women incorporated in the new constitution then being framed.
To secure to taxpaying women the right of Municipal Suffrage, has been the special line of legislative work for the State association.
In 1867 Samuel Young introduced into the Senate of West Virginia a bill to confer the suffrage on educated, taxpaying women, but it found no advocates except himself.
In presenting her Miss Anthony said: "The right of taxpaying women in Louisiana to vote upon questions of taxation is practically the first shred of suffrage which those of any Southern State have secured, and they have used it well.
The constitution conferred School Suffrage, which women already possessed under Territorial government, and gave to taxpaying women a vote on questions of taxation.
But a thing of greater consequence than any one of these specific improvements, a thing of vital import to every taxpaying citizen of the present and future City, is the making of comprehensive and accurate topographical maps.
In other cases, unless their cost is practically nothing, and there is no apparent probability of future taxpaying development, the City could hardly afford to purchase and maintain them.
Such a system makes it possible for the taxpaying class to control public utilities in their own interest and to the disadvantage of the general public.
This restricted form of municipal ownership is merely a slight concession on the part of the private monopolist to the taxpaying class.
When we consider that the state government, even under universal suffrage, is largely government by taxpayingproperty owners, we can understand why the progress toward municipal democracy has been so slow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taxpaying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
