The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-20

rial world. find their hanfis more than full
IA learning - eluip themselves for the
new careers OPENED to them IN the las,
fifty yeas
The exigenciss Of the time demand a
division ~ labor. and in the political
field women know that men in the main
have been Wiling To protect women's
interests. II ~ among the social and
wag. earning women that the bulwark
q Indifference MAJ be said 20 be- strong.
~'-t- Il - also among tho thousand homo
keeping women of the state whose busy
lives are hilei with daily service and
pleasure that complete Indifference. even
shrinking from political burdens - found
-Jnul th" sunragists have touched
- hat may be- termed she heart oI the
commonwealth the suffrage cause will
not b" won The suHraRists strength
can b- known by their exact numbers.
but the ant --ufTragist-' strength cannot
be-. measured until many thousands and
rhou-tndS - women can ha made to TAX.
-on" interest. even the slightest. IA the
matter
Voting - not natural right II 10
very singular that Womsn have not found
thi- out by themselves a. IL - not an
spti--'iHrdgist decision hut a fact that
Ne ali must recognize.
Citizenship IN a granted night. not a
natural one derived and regulated nv
each country or State according to ia
ideas 81 government. The argument
81 IN. Eun Tagist that a voter and a cit.
zen should 30 one and the same II moor
rect Citizens can be and have been dis
irsnChIsed. but can still remain citizens
and have all - citizens privileges
chief Justic" Waite of tho United
States supreme Court decided that c,iti-
l.nship earned With IL no voting power
nor right and the same decision has
be-H handed down 10y many courts in
dispOsIng u other test cases.
a citizen ~ the District ~ Columbia
has al the privileges Of citizenship but
h. cannot vote. az that ~ a state right and
the District Of Columbia 10 not a State
-C.tIz"nship merely does not entitIe
a man to vote Government grants that
privilege and enr"lls IN - lists ~ voters
those who must he made hattie for the
states safety and stability Government
does not let a man vote Just TO express his
v.ewpO,nts by dropping a bit Of paper
IN the ballot box. but II demands the ser
wees aud allegiance 81 voter 90 the
polnt - giving life. so 90 men did
during the civil war.
Men and women could not en- 10y our
T present civilization u government had
not that hacking In time Of peace
citizens must have a guarantee for life
and property; IL IL just this force - the
male voter that can be called upon when
needed This - a part % our strong
constitutional. democratic government
And has woman really suffered from
icing without the BALLOT In no other
country and in no other time has the world
-een such material progress such social
and moral advancement. a. in our Own
land during the last 10 years; and in
vestigaton shows that wOman's DroRreAa
has be.n no le~- marked than that Of
population. wealth and industry
We find in the general advancement of
woman. IN tho Improvement ~ her eco
uomic position. in her social and civic tn
fiuence and In her opportunity for crll-
ture that the story 81 her present oondi-
ton II without parallel in the history Of
the world And we anti-sufraei-ts can
say with pride that all this has besn ac-
cornphrh@d without granting women tho
hssllot
our league. though very young and
newly established. has already resolved
Ia promote the usiFSrs oG al wOm~n and