The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-10
WOMAN SUFFRAGE LIMITED.
= Proposal DESIGNED TO Adj ami Not Inn-
petle the Cause.

To THE EDITOR OF TEE SCS- Sir: Woman
suffrage has been agitated Ia this STAG
since about Iss. The abstract demand that
! suffrage should not be limited TO men Q
10 reasonable that its advocates expected
J it, triumph long ago. but In spite OF menv
| legal concessions to womens rights thu
main question 10 likely to remain unsettled
another hal. century unless its advocate,
/ change their tactics
Nearly everybody agrees that sor~
women are qualified TO vote, no matter now
! 10 may he with women as a body. The qu---
tion then recurs 20 10 the method under
which qualified women NAV be admitted
and those opposed TO suffrage or unht ic'
: IL lcft on, until they are qualified. should
, that ever happen.
Most Of the States have Constitution, that
will need amendment before women can
vote New York is one OF them Section "
| Article II limits suffrage TO male citlz-ns'
and prescribes their qualifications in o long
section which would he awkward without
the word male ita absence would slsr
he construed a. comforting suffrage on al
women. witch - not desirahi. and cou1
not he carried But an amendment wordsh
some hing like the paragraph below and
added 20 the section would limit -uIrscs
and accomplish the object az follows
But this section shall rot be construed A. ',r.
, bidding the Legislature to grant full suffrage 70
women taxpayers nor such other women ~
| full age may petition town boards tn towns
and registration boards la cities for IL. and csn
prove good character and ntncss By al least 81
we'll snovn maI- Indorsers their petltca, 'a.n
10 be ras>-i u.on by the legal voters =, Ia rru
election in the town or wari in whlca they res!.s
after 'ni-'y days public notice OF sppiIc,tos.
system like this could limit woman
suffrage. first. to taxpayers. Who nught .
hav" i, anyhow second. to women ssSiaE
ffSl i Who ~ould prov. Their d'n"-- md
third, they would he admitted or rs'",.-i
nv The ptsr- "f the tonnage y hi. 'h"-s
Who '''h not "an' 70 need not have "
" l'i" his ~ ~, would not in.ugur t.In-
Ser-al wot,i ~ suffrage. would n u fnw =.
~ Ten or fifteen. "arrv y quite - t,r "a
ssould 10 -afr he women admitted ~.
work At once ar,ong the unfran"hi-n@ =.
loon "a he new system could he pointed -
MIN sp rHrs re- r snnn, . 90 would 100. .
loc,i unpopuiar.ty they could try ast.n 't
e.'h reGnLrins :,ection Ihe genrt,, ,n,-
s,nsli-d; and would gain br 'hs di-r I--''n
MnSh 81 -. Sppo.,,ion = blind rre'rd ,- :
"a-on,ng con-"rvatisn Which orr"-"t
cry thing new IN sO"lal life and l'r.- 10
VIE l. ID merely because II l. old
" women agrafors vii drop their daui,rf
for universal woman -urr,r~ end Inv -
a. SGaR->tsd above. all of her numher So IN
tion- sill bs admitted thrty or FORT . r.
-oOucl than u ~. present dcnigpd b. ,,r.
Timed fn,rerstl suffrage hs- gone ~
enough, ana nothing j. 10 be- gIu.i Hr
conI"rriNg v On women whose np;ogf ~,
iRnor nee. or infamous live IN the ,l.-s y
some. unf' them for Ne exercise
" may he added that This plan IN 49,.
sfsn'" Wa submitted 80 leading M ,ge
women iU-t twenty Ave wears ago Hri
published ~ one 81 their paper. .,,orr.
panied by to prcdi, ion that withOI' COME.
Ihtng IKE u women would cont nue. 10 .
excluded nUv years or more II So.
promptly -ne"rrd A. 10, tai and riiI. Er...i
On he ground ihsf suffrage Va ncpr
hand nd they would soon have TIc Wnos
'h'n2 Well. tven,v-nye vcIr- pt -
nify hav" passed and so FAR a. ~. u'i"'
Sil'c- ~" conc erned the oppo-iti~r ..
stronger han ever. Before there ~. nn.
= oe-u'ory opposition nov II - organ ~
ahd L. hs Id~d b. some ~ he nIO-t IN ''up'f' .
women IN 'hc St1fe But thpy cannot "f' '.
uaIy oirp-e y system vhi'h doc no. trs ' -
Nom IN ~ OpeTsl Ion. and ~ Thu o, fI
WIZ -" 1i-aTned of their mo y ,.Ts r.s
weapon PUUtP SNi'r.
P"r.HNEFrsIr. November