Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-14
PRESIDENT FAVORS
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Expresses Hope Senate Will Act
Favorably on Amendment
Resolution.
GETS LETTER FROM FRANCE
Memorial Asks Principles Enun-
ciated in War Message Be
Carried Out.
GETS LETTER FROM FRANCE

" ASfINbIoN, June l3.--frsSidenf
Wilson again has thrown the weight
of his influence into the balance for
the Federal woman suffrage amend
ment. He expressed to-day 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 indorse-
ment.
This expression came at o'clock to-
day. when he delivered to Mrs Carrie
Chapman Gait. president of the Ma
tional Woman Suffrage Association, a
letter In answer to one received by
him from the French Union for Woman
Suffrage.
The memorial which the President
was answering follows
I'm the historic message which an
nounces to the world the entry into
the struggle of American force and
thought. you declared unforEetablc
the formula upon which your grea,
republic awaits victory-,he right of
peoples to self-determination and Il
durable peace for generations TO come
SOFtfAGlSTS ASK RIGHT
OF SELF-DETERMINATI
The French sunragists and those OF
the allied countries have heard your
beautiful and strong words. and they
unite IN prayer to you for the accom-
p!ishment of the following resolution:
Considering that from this war
there has come new international
right founded upon the right Of peo-
Piles of elf-determination;
That nothing can be claimed to
speak authorItatively in the name Of
the people which excludes women from
the life of nations:
Considering. moreover. that wom-
en-. during the actual conflict. have
shown the value OF the social work
which they are capable of performing
Considering that the participation
Of wives and mothers in the suffrage
would be the greatest guarantee of the
peace TO come, the need that the bel
ligerent countries have OF their help
| in the present conflict. the sufferings
| moral as we'll as physical, which this
war has cost them. have given definite
proof that no longer. without inequity
and imprudence, can one refuse 10 give
them through their vote an influence
in the undertakings which decide peace
and war.
The women OF the allied countries
express the wish that President Will
son. in one OF his future messages, will
proclaim the principle OF woman suf-
frage one of the fundamental rights
of the future
PLEAD FOR MESSAGE
DIRECTED TO ALI. MEN
we have read with emotion. Mr.
President The very profound words
which you have spoken In response to
the delegation OF women from New
York. If we recite them here i; is
because they are the same words that
we would ask you to address to all
humanity In one Ct our declarations
Which resound throughout the world:
LIT is a struggle which goes deep
er and tcu :heS more of the founda-
tiop of the organized life OF men than
any struggle that has ever taken pl2c
before. and no settlement of the uucs.
tions that lie on the surface can satisfy
a situation which requires that the
questions which lie underneath and at
The foundation should also be settled.
ana settled right. | ain free to say
that | think the question of woman
suffrage is one Of these questions which
lie, at the foundation
81 beg you to accept. Mr.. President.
the expression of our great apDrccia-
ton OF or American sisters ard our
profound appreciation for the high
moral tone of tho declarations which
you have uttered in their name. Ii
is this which encourages us 10 ask
your aid. which will be Il powerful in
fuonce for woman suffrage in he en-
tire world"