The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-02-22

he right OF Citizens OF the United States
to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the
United States or by any State on account of
race color or previous condition of servitude."
(Article XIV, section l, Constitution of the
United States")
"All persons born or naturalized in the
United States. and subject to the jurisdiction
thereof, are citizens of the United States and
the State wherein they reside. No State shall
make or enforce any law which shall abridge
the privileges immunities OF citizens of the
United States" (Articlo XIV, section /, Con-
stitution.)
The United States Constitution does not pro-
hibit women voting. 1t leaves the matter en-
tirely to the decisions in The several States, but
insists that no State shall deny the vote on
account of race, color, Or previous condition of
servitude. Most States deny the privilege to
minors, idiots. criminals. lunatics, and women
either by actual clauses or by requiring that
voters shall be male citizens, 81 years of age"
and so oil. So the sutfragists now working
for changes in the several State Constitutions
aiming to strike out the word male. At the
same time they trying to induce Congress
to propose an amendment to the United States
Constitution that shall make it impossible for
State Constitutions to deny the vote on account
of sex.
"Woinan's Rights" is not the war cry now
it is Equal Suffrage" or " Enfranch isement."
1t was foaHd that when the phrase /" Woman's
Rights" WIS used, men slid out of the difficulty
by answering. 20. yes. we will grant you all
your rights; but to vote is not one of them"
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Let no man take away thy crown" was the
text for the Rev. Anna Shaw's sermon last Sun
day.
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Anna Shaw is an ordained minister in the
Methodist Church.
Enfranchising a woman is not a revolution,
but an evolution"
1.-THE way to the polls is an Arctic expedi.
ton"
"Let every woman when she pays her taxes
protest against taxation without representa-.
ton"
So
"The bronze Goddess of Liberty has long
played farcical part on the Capitol dome"
Susan B. Anthony has been lecturing for
40 years.
A photograph has been cotton up showing
woman and her political peers. The face of
Frances Willard shines out from the center !;
and around it are an open-monthed idiot con-
vict in his stripes, lunatic tricked out in silly
feathers. and an Indian.
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The dress reform, as it appeared at the Con-
vention has won so little favor that its owner
was obliged to give it up after the first day.
But her costume must have been ugly under
any circumstances; the materials were dingy
unbecoming, and clumsily put together, so per-
haps it was not fair test OF the value OF the re-
form. The costume consists of short jacket
and blouse and divided skirt, Turkish
trousers, fastened in at the shoe tops It Is
called the Boston Rational dress, or the Syrian
costume; there is really no difference between
the two apparent to the average eye.
The Syrian woman, Madame Hanna Korany,
said: zone of your society ladies asked me how
it was possible for modest woman to go with
the men to vote. / answered / may not know
right. am an Oriental, but it seems to me as
modest for a woman to 90 to the polls to VOTE
as for her to dance with and among strange
men,"
The Jolly Suffragist who for 10 years has
been rolling up evidence to prove that woman
originally and naturally had the position of
chief of the family, tells of rather amusing
aspect of this condition as it even now exists
among the Seneca Indians. "Among them the
squaw is the ruling spirit in the family, and
when the poor down-trodden Indian does not
bring in enough meat, or fails to keep the
apartments warm enough, or in any way dis