The correct answer is: A. Women’s suffrage is a positive development.
Indeed, this cartoon was created by artist Henry Mayer in 1915. It is easy to examine it just visually. A female lady liberty is walking towards the eastern part of the USA and pointing her hand towards what seems to be masses of women drowning in a black pool (of despair). She is walking from the western part of the country which is white towards the eastern part which is black. The color of her dress (yellow) is not only a color that is used to signal that someone is in danger, it is also the color of the masses of women who seems to be struggling not to drown which inevitably links her to them.
All the light colors are on the western part of the cartoon which inevitably depicts women’s suffrage as positive. The fact that the cartoon is very binary (opposition between bright colors and dark ones) dismisses the idea that the issue was complicated, notice that there are no gray areas anywhere on it. The poor masses of women in the eastern states seem to be struggling to stay alive which means that voting rights were critical for them.
Now the historical context was that before universal voting rights were acknowledged by the federal government, only western states had them. Only women from western states were allowed to vote and have a say in who represented them as citizens. The most progressive states in that respect were the western states.