Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-05-03
PERTINENT SUFFRAGE
ARGUMENTS
PRESENTED BY MRS. ALBERT ROBIN

will still fall in love with each
other, get married and live hap
PLY together; daughters and sons
will be raised in the same homes
and love each other tenderly.
The Feminist movement or the
Suffrage movement is rather an
evolutionary process in line with
the whole democratic movement.
While the savage peoples in
Darkest Africa are creeping into
civilization, and the semi-civiliz-
ed people are following on the
footsteps of civilization, the high
ly civilized people are agitating
forms of democracy; slowly the
various monarchial forms of gov
eminent are being shaken off by
men for the simpler forms of de-
mocracy, and here in the United
States the country that boasts of
the highest form of democracy,
the issue of woman suffrage is
going on. 1t is not so much an
issue for agitation but one for
education.
When our men are sufficiently
educated to understand woman's
place in this country, and our
women become fully conscious of
their place in this highly develop
ed home of theirs, suffrage will be
a long forgotten issue. From be-
ing a mere joke, as it is with a
good many people today, it will
become an inconceivable thing of
the past that woman once had to
fight for responsibility that, as |
hope to prove, will almost entirely
devolve upon her in the future.
Does, then, the hand that rocks
the cradle rule the world? Not in
Europe, or there would be no war.
Not in the United States or our
educational system would be the
most efficient. Education and
community sanitation are pro-
blems of the highest civilized
communities. Now, who but a
mother is most concerned about
issues Of this kind?
If she is concerned with these
/ problems, she must have the pow
err to enact laws that will enable
her to solve them.
The constitution of the United
States is a document that gave
citizenship to its constituents.
We have passed the stage when
the very eXistance of soul in
women was contested by bishops
Of the church; we have passed
the stage when it was contested
that our brains lacked the same
capacities as those Of men; we
have not passed, however, the
stage with the exception of the
Suffrage states in this country
when our capacity for citizen.
ship is not contested"
According to the famous Four.
teenth amendment to the Consti.
tuition Of the United States, Sec
ton l, "All persons born OF
naturalized in the United States
and subject to the jurisdiction
thereof, are citizens of the United
States and Of the states wherein
they reside. No state shall make
or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immuni
ties of citizens of the United
States; nor shall any state de
prive any person of life, liberty
or property without due process!
of law; nor deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equa
protection of the laws.
In this case tradition got tn,
better of our forefathers, whel
in the second section to this abov,
Fourteenth Amendment, the wore
male was used.
And yet, in the preamble of GU,
constitution we read, 1--WE, tn,
people of the U. S.*##|tdo ordail
and establish this constitutio,
for the L. S. Of A." According
to the constitution of the U. S.
e then, the people do not includ
the women And that is wha
one branch of the suffrage move
ment is working fora sixteenth