Arizona republican., 1918-06-14
SUFFRAGE GIVEN AN EXTRAORDINARY AID
 FROM WHITE HOUSE
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

WASHINGTON, June 13.-President Wilson again has thrown the weight of bis influence into the balance for the federal woman suffragcI amend ment. He expressed today the hope that the senate would act faVorably at this session on the resolution for submission of the amendment to the states passed by the house last Jan uary after he had given his endorse ment.
 When a delegation. headed by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National Womans' Suffrage as soclation, and pr. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary president, called at the White House today, the president read to them reply he asked Mrs. Catt 10 transmit to a memorial pre- sented to him from the French Union for Woman Suffrage. The French sutfragists asked MT. Wilson to pro- claim the principle of woman suf- frage one of the fundamental rights of the future. His reply follows:
 Presidents Reply
 nave read your message with the deepest interest and l welcome the opportunity to say that 1 agree without reservation that the full and oAiANtiN OtiiiONIdtlC IeGO0SlIucllOn Oi the world for which we are striving. and which we arc determined to bring about at any cost, will not have been completely or adequately attained un- til women are admitted to the suf- frage, and that only by that action can the nations of the world realize the benefit of future generations the full initial force of opinion or | the humane forces of action
 Service in Great Crisis The services of women during this supreme crisis of the worlds his | tory have been of the most signal usefulness and distinction. The wal could not have been fought without them, or it's sacrifices endured. It is | high time that some part of the deft of gratitude 10 them should be ac- | knowledged and paid and the only acknowledgement they ask is their admission to the suffrage. Can we 1 justly refuse it? As for America, It is my earnest hope that the senate of the United States will give an unmistakable answer to this question | by passing the suffrage amendment to the federal constitution before the | end of this session.
 In their memorial the French suf- | fragists said:
 l Resolutions From France l The French suffragists and those | of the allied countries have heard your beautiful and strong words and they unite in prayer to you for the accomplishment of the following reso- lution:
 | Considering that from this wal there has come a new international right, founded upon the right of peo- pies of self f-determination.
 That none can be claimed to speak authoritatively in the name of tho people who excludes women from tho life of nations.
 | "COnSldrfng, moreover that WOmer during the actual conflict have showT the value of the social work whici they are capable of performing.
 Guarantee of Peace Considering that the participation of wives and mothers in the suffrag, would be the greatest guarantee O the peace to come, the need that tht belligerent countries have of thir hell | in the present conflict, the sufferings moral as well as physical, which this war has cost them, have given def mite proof that no longer, withou inequity and imprudence, can one re fuse to give them their vote, an in fluence in the undertakings whicl decide peace and war.
 The women of the allied countries express the wish: That President Will son in one of his future messages vii proclaim the principle of woman suf frage one of the fundamental right of the future"