The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-06-14
Equal Suffrage Committee
Recommends Passage of
Chamberlain Resolution
for Constitutional Change
Extending Ballot Rights
to the Fair Sex-"New
Class Fills All Conditions
ASHURST TO PUSH
TEST ON MEASURE
Report Asserts 1t Is Against
Principle of Free Govern
ment to Deny Privilege
to One-half of Citizens
Whose Aid Is Needed to
Save Liberty of Country

Especial Dispatch to The Cali
NGToN. June 1S.-That
women should not be denied voice
in the enactment and enforcement of
the laws and the concerns of the gov
ernment is the opinion of the majority
OF the senate woman suffrage commit
tee. as expressed in report on the pro-
posed constitutional amendment giving
women the franchise. which was sub
mItted at the senate today by Senator
Ashurst OF Arizona.
1T is or at least ought TO be an
axiom of American liberty that class
OF persons so ready and willing TO
obey the laws as are the women should
not he denied a voice" states the
opinion.
+ The proposed amendment to the COM
@xtitution is as follows:
The rights of citizens of the United
States 10 vote shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by
any state on account OF sex. Congress
shall have the power by appropriate
legislation to enforce the provisions of
this article.
"wOULD AID GOVERNMENT,
IN this republic" says the report.
"the people constitute the government.
They are it's creators and its main
tenance; they are the government
That the granting of the elective fran
clise to women would add to the eff
fciency. strength, justice and fairness
OF government we have not the slight
est doubt.
1T is anomalous and archaic in q
free republic, professedly made up of.
controlled by ard administered for all
the people to deny to one-half of its
citizens the right of exercising valu-
able function Of citizenship, to wit. the
elective franchise. thus barring that
one-half from the right and power to
say what law or polity shall be its
rule of conduct
And this anomaly becomes odious
and abhorrent when we reflect that the
particular half of citizenship thus ex-
EluU6u Is IuG lutluCHld1 OHS-Idll 1IOii
which springs so much wisdom. cheer,
courage, hope and good counsel.
WOMEN TO AID JUSTICE
I'VE are engaged in a struggle
against fraud and violence, avarice and
cupidity; struggle in behalf of liber-
" and justice and ii will promote the
success Of this struggle to add 10 the
!. present class of voters, another class
' the women) in whom the materialistic
IS generally submerged for the ideal
fstic; a class OF voters which looks to
laws and movements as to how such
laws and movements viii affect her
children, how such laws and conditions
will promote morals. human health and
human progress more especially than
ais to how this or that particular law
or poIity VIII develop or serve material
. or property interests.
"As has been said man looks after
the affairs OF life. but woman looks
after life itself
.woman's sphere. her ideals and her
duties make her the inescapabIe and
essential conservator OF human life.
charged as she is with the duty of
conserving the human race; and # is
in harmony with political and natural
justice to accord to her the right to
say what laws shall assist her In bring
ing about the betterment OF economic
conditions"
LIST OF MALEFACTIoNS
The report sets forth that the things
10 be considered in granting equal
franchise are whether women az class
VIII vote whenever fell opportunity
IS offered; attempt to comprehend the
questions upon which they vote; at
tempt to learn something Of the charac-
ter and fitness OF the person for whom
they vote; vote against dishonest per-
sons for office; oppose dishonest meas
ares: refuse. directly or indirectly, to
accept a bribe and refuse, directly or
fHdlrectly, to give bribe: place coun-
try above party: recognize the result
of the election as the will OF the peo-
pie. and therefore as the law, and con-
tinue to fight for righteous. although
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