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a construction at all strict will be
very questionable.
Whether anyone will take the
trouble to contest the constitutionality
of the law is an undecided question.
But if the suffragists want to make
their status beyond dispute, the first
use of their new votes should be to
put the constitutional amendment
through the legislature and get 1t rat
flied by the people.
The Illinois Mi::Yo.
Boston Herald: 1t will be interest
ing to see how Illinois experiment in
woman suffrage works. Women may
there vote for president, but not for
members of congress or of the state
legislature They may vote for may
CTS and other municipal officers. but
not for governors and others on the
state ticket. All, this is very lopsided,
illogical and even fantastic.
Perhaps participation in the ballot
will be so small that these privileges
will gradually suffer atrophy. But if
really exercised and the preside ntial
Lallot would seemingly suffice to en-
LIST interest, the state is not likely to-
continue so ope-sided system. Il
cannot remain half suffrage and half
anti-suffrage.
Suffrage Crosses the mississippi.
Washington Times: What is once
gained for the cause OF woman suf-
frage is never thereafter lost TO it.
Give half the population the ballot,
and the. chance of taking it away with
the consent of that half is decidedly
unimportant.
What they once gain, therefore, the
women hold Their latest victory is
in Illinois, where the legislature has
passed the law to grant women the
vote on all statutory offices. That is,
they may vote for ali places provided
for under the laws rather than the
Illinois cities are organ
lied under charters granted by law;
so the women may vote in municipal
though they may not vote
for governor Likewise, the selection
of presidential electors is provided for
by law of the state; therefore the
women will have the vote for presi- |
dent.
A Fabian Victory.
Detroit News: The Illinois women,
in getting the right to vote for presi-
lent and other specific Offices through |
the act OF the legislature, are congrat- |
Mating themselves that they sdo not |
have to appeal to $4,000 voters who |
10 not speak English in order to win /
he suffrage at the polls. Which is
me way of extending the ballot. And /
al n cd hop D
alive Lee Neil Browne of Lorimer
scandal fame. was the spokesman of
he ants. Well, well, how the world
Hovesi
Repeal improbable.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: The fight /
or woman's suffrage in Ohio last year
vas fought on constitutional grounds
md the suffragists lost. Illinois be-
.omes a semi-suffrage State and the
state constitution has not been touch
d. That is, in Illinois women be-
ONE eligible to vote for all statutory
not recognized specifi
ally by organic law.
Their victory is important from eV-
ry standpoint The suffragists, in the
ace of so much gained, will not re-
me aDSSduSc lHSS nave LHISSSu SCI
ing full and complete rights at the
oils.
Illinois has no referendum law, the
resent session of the Assembly hay-
lg consistently refused to enact one.
he only attack possible against the
uffrage law, therefore, is either in
lie courts or in the legislature itself.
is wholly improbable that the act
i'll be repealed; what some court
lay do is, of course, beyond conjee-
IRE.