The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-03

.utsonshy grant sSs6aaSbSs;B ksS dsssaion I
had Just Seen sendsesd ~, eBe- Supreme
Court sustaining the validity 0s ME sohool
suffrage, which had BSsn. thus conferred
upon women. and exercised by them since |
1887. and this als6 covsred tho dli suffrage.
The act under which Territories are .or- |
ganized permits their ISSislstdrcs to con-
fer the suffrage and under II tise women OF |
Utah and Wyoming voted seventeen and |
twenty-on years respectively without chal- |
lenge. Gov. Brodie had not the smallest |
peg on which to hang his veto.
There are thousands Of men and women
in the United States who would repudiate |
with horror any affilIation with the eie- |
ments mentioned above. but. certainly do |
stand with them and support them in their |
opposition to woman suffrage. There are |
thousands also who conscisntiously doubt |
that 1t would tend to promote temperance |
and morality or that It has improved con-
ditions where 1t does exist. II It does not |
have this effect, why Is It that its most |
bitter enemies are those classes which have
just defeated 1t in Arizona2 1t rs their
power alone which has killed every bill
and every amendment for It, no matter In
what State presented. They comprise the
shrewdest Of politicians and the strongest
OF organizations, II they did not regard
woman suffrage as O menace to their insti-
tutions and did not consider It's effects
injurious to them In the States where 1t
exists, would they be everywhere and at
all times it's most implacable foe? There
can be but one logical answer to this
question
nnl IN n
reform she employs no half-hearted methods.
Although abe does not follow the shot
gun and bowie-kpife policy so popular
with the masculine portion Of her State,
she shows herself to be not lacking in
fighting qualities Mrs. Katherine VOL
sey. Kentuckan. who recently wrote
book to show that women had more rights
under a monarchy than under q republic,
has now withdrawn her membership
from the Daughters OF the American Revo-
luton because the forefathers founded
strictly male oligarchy and It shows want
| OF self-respect to honor the fathers who
| repudiated and disinherited women"
Mrs. Wolsey should not be 80 hard on
| her ancestors, who, although they were not
great enough to give equal rights 70 women.
| yet had the highest conception OF equality
which had been made manifest up TO thelr
time. She should place her withdrawal
! from this organization on the substantial
basis that the daughters OF these revolu-
| tionary sires. after a century and quar-
! ter OF progress, have not reached a plane
where they themselves demand equal
rights for their own sex. II the descend
ants Of these heroic fathers, after four
generations Of education and opportunity,
have not the spirit to claim for themselves
every prerogative Of American citizenship,
do not condemn their ancestors, Surely
they set the highest example that was
! ,,-.tl kni marked
only the dawn of universal freedom.
lication by Mrs. Charles y. Fairbanks:
president of the D. A. r. she announced
fears of few women that disaster was
impending over our country from the neg.
lect Of the principles OF Its founders
She also stated that -one OF the objects
attention is the education Of foreigners
who are constantly becoming part OF our
citizenship; and they are endeavoring TO
fit them for this in New York, Boston.
Chicago. Buffalo Minneapolis and many
The contemplation OF this, spectacle
forget their dignity. Imagine this little
to California. undertaking to AT for citizen
ship" the more than half a million immi-
granite who yearly land upon our our Shore tsne.:
and neaaEhtie not h ,sSk,nS m n foq 1s ne
miliions Of native-born woharE It lie. to
laugh. And If our newly arrived friends
in the steerage have any sense OF hurhor
they the idea e Of Being prepared for the elective
franchise by the Dau ghters Of the American
Revolution, to whom this Government,
in it's infinite wisdom, has denied this very
privilege! '''
/ The New York Tribune. commenting on
| exp resident Cleveand's speech at the
recent Tuskegee Institute meeting, says
We should have been glad II Mr.. Cleveland.
%ts ,hs nd sS
aeT hSeps to Rsd Mth saa
OF equal right and privilege as citizens. re.
gar diesf Of race for al those whose character
duties OF good citizens.
Yes, it is a pity that he could not have
forgotten politics and made the above
declaration, but 1t is still more 20 be re-
GREETED that the Tribune. while taking 20
broad view Of the franchise. should still
he opposed to its extension to women.
Il ia, indeed, remarkable that it should he
willing to sweep away all race distinctions
against this great principle OF equal right
and privilege a. citizens. ana yet should
| maintain the barrier Of sex. II 1t Is char
acter and achievement that At citizen
for the exercise Of the franchise, then BY
what logic Is 1t refused to women who
possess the quauncations!
The Amaigamated Association OF Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers, at their recent
national convention in CclHmhus, Ohio ,,,
, elective franchise should be- extended to
, womsn citinens,' but they opened every
session by singing this among other stanzas
Our homes we must defend.
, And to this noble end
, We must an aim
SIMON and Liberty. -. ., %,
Protection full and free.
/, In labors name. =
, Is II in order respectfully to In quire how
much union. liberty. protection and M , de;
the franchise? And II 1t is a necessity. a
: ine qua non, for workingmen. why not FOL
r working women7 Have they no homes ,te
, defend. and are they not. equally WIFE
. The advantages following nationa