It is true, in a sense, in most countries of the world.

But in European countries not _woman_ suffrage, but _universal_ suffrage is being struggled for.
I had this explained to me in Russia, in the course of a conversation with Alexis Aladyn, the brilliant leader of the Social Democratic party.
I said to him that I had been informed that the conservative reformers, as well as the radicals, included woman suffrage in their programs.
Aladyn looked puzzled for a moment, and then he replied: "All parties desire universal suffrage.

Naturally that includes women." Finland at that time, 1906, had recently won its independence from the autocracy and was preparing for its first general election.

Talking with one of the nineteen women returned to Parliament a few months later, I asked: "How did you Finnish women persuade the makers of the new constitution to give you the franchise ?" "Persuade ?" she repeated; "we did not have to persuade them.

There was simply no opposition.