The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-18
THE CAUSE OF WOMAN.
LIrTLE INHERENT SNOWY BY POLL.
rICfANs ~ SUFFRAGE

v,.,,v sor the Possible Rights and Wrongs
NJ Puerto Rico and Hawaii, Though
Even Congressmsn From Equal s"hrage
state. Lack Interest Roman Catholics
and the Question of Votes for Women.
How glibly and yet how uncons ciously the
,o,,jcisns and new spap crs nowadays are max
ing arguments for woman suffrage. The present
.tu,tipn. with It's demand for new intel pretations
ot IN. Constitution, new definitions OF citizens
tights, new adjustment OF political conditions,
has started airesh the streams oil rlpquence Since
the burning issues Of the Civil War were settled
,hsy have shown signs OF a drought, the arid ques
,ious Of Ltiii, finance and trusts not furnishing
IN. necessary stimulus for bursts OF genuine
or,tory But when matters OF human liberty.
slua.ity and fraternity come up Tor settlement,
then tho spell binders get In their strong work.
and every plea they make Tor man applies with
equal force to woman. although they do not intend
It. for there Is no man In all ChnStendom today
Who Is intentionally making a fight Tor the poliu'
cal freedom Of woman. II Is only In the Anglo
Saxon countries that she has even the slightest
recognition AZ a political factor or a part OF the
soyernmsn, Occasionally she receives some
small attention from the English Parliament,
but In the Congress Of the United States her very
existence Is ignored,
The Senators and Representatives rsnd tho
air. tear passion 10 atters, and wear out them
selves and everybody else In their efforts to lie.
fend the political nights Of the Southern negroes,
the Puerto Rican>, the Ilawaiians. the Filipinos
and the African Beers, but II would Ne an utter
inpossibility to secure in either house Of Congress
any consideration Of the political nights Of \mer'
lean women, Even the members from the four
States where women already possess these nights,
are afraid to introduce the subject lest by so doing
they leopardize some pet measure they may have
In hand And We, every argument in favor Of
the rights Of these different peoples applies with
greater force to the women Of the United States
Take, for instance. the proposed bill, framed
" protect the Southern negro in the exercise o!
tie Franchise, providing that Congressional repre-
-~entation shall Do based on the number OF voters
and not the number Of people Why is II that our
statesmen never have protested against the count
ing Of women In the basis Of representation when
they were no, permitted a vote, which has been
done since the beginning OF our Government?
In the recent kentucky Injunction eases argued
before Judge Taft in the United States Circuit
Court Of Appeals, e1 Gov Bradley quoted Justice
Harlan that a State may not disregard the NE,
liberty or property OF its ciurns lie then de-
fined liberty" as including the hight TO vote
ana 10 nave me NpN N'uH''u 'huse VI aNhri
# this provision included women, aud then, 10
quote from the report:
NJ Bradley admitted that while women had no,
N night to vote, Il was, n"v'l th"l"S. true that au-
,horl1ed electors are eurlle 10 proi"r tn w the Fed
ertI cuutS against any state agent which under
takes to nlliy that vut'.
lc says liberty Includes the rgh, n vote, .
hut women have not that right and hence are not
entitled 10 the protection II the Federal courts
IN is exercise. AMI III, fact that all the women
IN the State Of Kentucky are deprived II this
right does not in the least disturb eNGov.
Bradley or any Of the men So strenuously
qua rding their own liberties in this res pet
Senator Foraker. however, takes a diife rent
view. In a recent speech before the Senate on
the Puerto Ricans, he mai r = lcng hy argument
10 show that tho word citizen does not imply
the night Of a vote, but, in il, bald sense. itImplrs
nothing more than that a citizen owes allegiance
10 the government, which IN turn owes the 'clt-
zen protection" Mr. ForaAcr differs from the
Federal Constitution, which says in Amendment
Nv: The right OF Cu1rnS Of the tnitrd States
In vote shall not be denied or abrdged, &c If
T. ba q "ciukrn Of the United States carries with
e. no more than the protection Of the Government
~ une's person or business, then II means nothing
more desi ira bic than To he a citizen Of any other
county, lpI al kbNtInUf'US tNtul lIlS p1OrC
tim
Then in the case n cuba We are informed
that the leaders o' the national Ilrty all dene nd
universal s~uliraga; that zen. Wood IS heSoged
e. arrany, for universal suffrage aud that
Nus demand is supported by rn' peopl" of the
I nltat States DOES any one suppose for a
minlt' that this l. INT 'n!Ht To in'lude Cuban
rpn'n' Why 10 MT mon clam"r for male sui.
irE' lnst-e / of using the missioner universal"
u would not sound 60 grandloquent, but It would
mean what 4 SAYS.
CONSIDER fr q moment the bill Tor the govern
rnent Of Hawai-, which is now helor" Congress.
Its most important feature IS that relating to the
suffrage. ii@cau,r Il the het"rogene ,u~ popula-
a property qualification. hut, 50 strong was the
desire 10 enfranch'~" ~ many as possible, the
Senat" Of the | nlted States struck out the prop
erty clause, There is not = paper or an orator
who, in speaking upon his question, docs not
.av, AN PERSONS in iha Hawaiian Islands who
hut whom We ssk II this includes women. Wa lind
out quicklv that AL persons" lmsan "all men"
The most distinguished women in the United
States hay Tetuon"d, begged and prayed that
there shall no, he this discrimination against
the women Of this new territory They ara will.
ing that the most ngli rducA uonal ami pror-rty
that " non who cen comply with them may not
be hsrr'd out The members of Congress- will
Mt even listen b. ,h"r %ipp'olS Ih"re are in
those iSlanls many wealthy ana educated Anon
m an! English women. but al will be arhilra.
'lv shut out from any voice N the government
Will, tn, ballot vii b" pIt into thn hands Of ev"ry
AAl " lIA.H " '' - \ NNl T IfNF
and Malay who rar road " wrll' a few words Il
English. Every effort Is beng mnda hv the
Legislators IN Congress 10 grant the vi lest nussi-
bic franchise H. AL ~ those men. while not ona
voice is rniSad in hnhq'f ~ th' woman. and # ever
thav get the suffrage i, VIII have IN b.. nv rarmis
sion IT the mqlpntv II these men who are heing
PLACED N AUTHORITY oSar them by The Congress
~ N" 7 nitAi States
u Is In rnuarl 10 III" Philippines. however.
that the Decleraior 81 Tndep 'nd'nco tho con
%stitutinn, the Revolutionary fathers and many
other distinguished auihonti's ar most trani.
oalv appalled, to Tn" statesmen and the news
rap'rs Shn X loud and long Of tho inquiry Of GOV
"rrlnc without the consent Of the governed"
e taxation without Pr 's"ntation, as II these
'lnGs he'd not been done in tha case - women
~ , since We hay" had y government, with M
r-ftr~t from tlther N" statesmen 81 IN" news
parnts They seem uttsrly Obliyinus to tho bitter
sa,lt' - the whole performance. 1t is only when
this INJUSTICE Affects men that they drn able TO
EEL any indignation. So far as any wrong TO
w. absolutely dead. The rights 81 th'sn ignorant
naked, heathrulsh. half savage Filipinos ara
infinitely NOR saCr in th""N - Of NOR American
mn thsn arr ihoS' OF American women, which
haze been withheld for moe thnn 4 century.
Even row. whin theSr Il'iplnO men ar SUI shoot
IN DOWN our solo r., q IL rg" coming ant Of u III
'iriau, and nsWSpap"tS in the INIT II States
ar shouting from tn houS.iops that they must
ne allowed 10 govern themselves event II We have
70 kptp a standing army ont then IN protect them
In ihst night. But n women ssN ~ these same
r"iIlraus and nepFVAp' -, viii You protect
uS also IN our night to q share IN our government
hoy answer, 40, you haven / any such rght
On" cannot pick Up n daily nrw' pap r without
having his attention called ~ VA value which
core With when thy guatli IN fnr themselves and
fUt 9th mrn EuIIN a. Conspicuous il IA "