The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-12-21


spirit Vi the American people can onl!
be raised 10y making their prosperity
co II neAslraae witt thrir matnrul re-
sources AM national Development. Our
political progress would tlien he gagged
by national morality, not by dollars anu
cent, under tie control uf IA few.
YET, many men, claiming 10 be rep
resentatives OF American principles a.
defined in our National. Constitution,
are willing to hold Nonen distranrhiseu
citizens Just as ii existing conditions ii.
our national and political life d., MOI
effect their lliD7 liberty and pursuA Of
happiness. The good and pure
nood OF Tie nation, allied TO the good ana
pure manhood OF the nation, would be-
the strongest and most logical forct
against the impure of both factors, in
our political lille. There is AN old adag,
and "a true one, that rogues do o long
agree because their faith AMI morals are
bad, but true Au%tericanism has suttici-
ent faith and morality within itself t.
govern itself. Therefore voters OF Ne
yada, weigh the question OF equal politi-
cal rights for ~onlen i'll Columbius
s ale of justice, and you will emphasize
your A~mericanism with a sensorial Yes,
which according to Edison's theory OF
sound, will ever reecho the refrain OF
your sense OF justice, and that you, OF
your own national choice, are willing
that the word citizen should express the
same power III our State Constitution
that i~ttioes, beyond all doubt, Express
in our National Constitution.
Would man endure the condition he
so remorsely imposes upon women, by
making suffrage the political privilege OF
his sex, instead of the constitutional
right OF every citizen irrespective OF
sex? Certainly not, because oi the CON
sciausness of the fact that he is endowsti
by his Creator with the same inalien-
able rights common to woman, and thu
only means OF protecting these rights l.
through the unconditional exercise o.
the ballot, then in the name OF freedom,
equality and justice, what authority
human or divine, has maj Tor subject
ing woman to this political minority,
from which he holds himself exempt
according to the laws of nature and the
laws of nations? Man holds the right
OF denying oma the right OF the Tree
exercise OF the ballot, simply by usurpa-
ton, viz, by the introduction OF the
word ''male,' before the. word citizen
into the Suite Constitutions. Many OF
our ablest %jurists are agreed, 4'that had
it been attempted to deny to Woman
any rightI,declared in the National Con-
stitntlon, except the right to vote and
the right to be tried by Il jury Of het
peers, the answer would have been,
That the constitutional terms, .'tlA
people, 1.-the citizen, " ''every subject, =
OF course. beyond all doubt apply to
women as well as to men. Again, these
terms apply even in m%onarchies to NO
men, except where the Salic law is a
clause of written constitutions such as
in France\ women may become partici-
pants i'll the government, even succeed
To the throne itself. Ii the fnndament-
al principles involved any form OF cleo
toral government he studied from an
appropriated standpoint, there will be
found affirmation OF equality OF rights to
women to share in the government, un-
less she comes under the conditions OF
the unqualified class, because women
are an equal half of the people, of tbs
citizens or OF the subjects of any nation,
Reasoning as well from analogous
Judicial precedent, as from every scope
and nature OF government, it would
seem self-evident that the authority o
the United States to provide for the pro.
lection of federal electors in the exercis,
of the federal franchise is coevil, with
its origin, being an inherent attribute .
republican corporate life, because ever,
principle involves an affirmation of tn,
equality OF citizenship. The main rea
sou why this has not been understood
and given a place as part of the com.
mon law of thought and opinion, is
that women themselves did not, til
within the last fifty years awaken to the
fact that citizenship comes from tn,
States acting in their united capacity