Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-07-06
TERRY DAILY AGAIN
MAKING PICTURES
HlMORIST Is ENTERTAINING CHI.
CAGO WRITER'S WITH HIS
ORIGINAL. WIT.
"Turn the Crank. Johnny" Feature
OF His For Magazine Articles
Are Read With Interest.

Hot Springs, July 9.-Tcrry Daily
who some time ago, and until he suf-
/ fcred Il temporary break down in
health. was publishing magazine
here, is now on the Chicago Record
Herald, where he has a column on
the editorial page under the title OF
The Moving Picture Man. Ii Will
be remembered here that his Turn
the Crank, Johnny" preface was tho
signal for the Introduction of some OF
his genuine and original wit. and his
success in his new field Will be OBJ
served here with much interest.
DAILY has also become an authority
on the question Of woman's suffrage
as is shown in the following copy
righted article:
WHY DON'T WOMEN VOTE?
BY Terry DAILY
According to American law, the
/ Right of Suffrage is a political fran
chise which is granted by the state
to its citizens permitting them to OK
ercise their natural right Of self
government. 1t is the legal privilege
of voting.
Webster's Dictionary says that Suf-
frage means Assisting by vote. A
Suffragant is one who assists in gov
eminent All American citizens arc
suffragants according TO the {Declar-
alton of Independence, for this i'm
mortal document affrms that our
government derives its just powers
from the consent of the governed.
The ballot is the only legal means
for expressing the personal consent OF
the governed.
Suffrage is the exercise OF sell-goV-
eminent through the ballot.
1t would be absurd to say that our
Creator endowed us with natural
right to f-government; but did not
endow us with natural right to eX-
ercise it. 1t is equally absurd to say
American citizens have not natural
right to the political franchise OF SUI
frage. All citizens who are deprived
of suffrage are deprived of their nat
ural right to elf-government II this
deprivation comes through their own
act. they can have no grievance. But
if the state deprives women citizens
of their natural right to self-govern-
ment without their consent, the state
does an unconstitutional act and Wo-
men citizens are grievously wronged
in their sacred rights.
Equal suffrage is not question or
logic, it is a question of conscience
All American women are citizens:
"All persons born or naturalibed IN
the United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens OF
the United States and OF the state
wherein thew reside."-14th Amend
ment.
The legal right to exercise sell
government must be clearly dlstlh-
guished from the natural right. Inc
state gives us the legal right, but our
Creator gave us the natural right.
If a state wishes to deprive it's wo-
men citizens of their natural right 10
self-government, the state must 40 SO
by clear, positive and definite law.
Rut no state has done so.
American women citizens, in many
states, are deprived of their natural
right of government without due
process of law. Why? Because there
is no law declaring that:
l. Women citizens have been de-
prived of their natural right to self
government.
2. Women citizens shall not vote.
3. Only male citizens shall exercise
government.
4. It would be injurious to the gen.
eral welfare to permit women citl'
zens to exercise suffrage.
5. Masculinity is a general qualifl-
cation 70 rsuffrage.
- The state cannot compel it's cltl-
zens to do impossibilities. Masculin-
ity could not be a general qualifica-
ton for voting, because that would
impose a condition upon one-half our
citizens which is impossible of fulfill
ment.
No state has just power to decree
by law that women citizen shall not
vote because they are women, for this
would constitute class legislatin. For
the same reason, no state has just
power to decree that only male citi-
zens shall vote.
A statute defining an Elector which
declares the voting qualifications OF
male persons" applies to male per-
sons only. 1t does not affect the nat