Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-08-26
Amendment Holds Record Of
Being Before the Country
Longer Than Any Other
Successful Amendment.
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Washington, Aug. 25.-Ratifi2a-
ton of the suffrage amendment TO
the constitution ends a struggle
which began in this country before
the colonies declared their indie
pendence. 1t will eventually en-
franchise 25,000,O00 women.
Woman suffrage first raised its
voice in America in Maryland in
1647, when Mistress Margaret
Brent, heir of Lord calvert, de-
manded a place in the legislature OF
the colony as a property holder of
wide extent. And in the days Ct the
revolution Abigail Adams wrote her
husband, John Adams, at the con-
tinental congress which was franz
ing the laws of tho infant nation
that, "if-in the new iaws-partic-
ular care and attention was not
paid to the ladies, we are deter
mined to form a rebellion and will
not hold ourselves bound to obcN
any laws in which We have nc
Voice"
Organized Work Began in 1913.
Organized work for woman sui
frage began IN the United State
with the woman's rights convention
in Seneca Falls, N. y" IN 1S4S
which was called by Lucretla Mott
and Elizabeth Cady stanton, earl!
leaders of Massachusetts and New
York, in respcnse to the indignation
aroused by the refusal 10 PERM
women to take part in the anti
slavery convention of 1910. From
the date of that convention the SUI
frage movement IN the Unitct
States began the fight that LASTED
seventy years and ended with vic
tory. Another convention FOLLOWED
in 1852 at Syracuse, n. Y. at whicE
delegates from canada were pres
ent and it was there that susan d
Anthony assumed leadership or TN
cause to which she devoted mel
life.
In 1869 the National Woman
Suffrage association, with Miss An
thony and Miss Stanton as its head
was formed in New York and in th'
same year the American Woman
Suffrage association was organized
in Cleveland with Lucy Stone ant
Julia Ward Howe as its leaders. A
first differing widely in policy, th'
national association working u
put a suffrage amendment through
the federal congress and its sister
organization being its efforts t
convert the country state by state
the two associations later unitee
under the name of the Nationa
Woman Suffrage association. The
associations drive for the vote wa'
led in turn by Mrs. Stanton, Miss
Anthony, DR.. Anna Howard Sha"
and Mrs. carrie Chapman Gait, tht
latter of whom is now its presi
dent. ,o,-
The nineteenth amendment
which bears her name. was DRAFTED
nv Miss Anthony in 1875 and wa,
S,rst introduced in congress in 1870
hv SENATOR A. A. Sargent of Califor
nia and 1t is in the same Language
that the new principle of the law
| reads: - r,o rioh
.. citizens of the United states Il
vote shall not be denied or apriuse.
by the United states OF ny an!
state on account of sex.
"Section 2. Congress SHAH nav
mower. by appropriate leglslatioI'
to enforce the provisions OF 'his d.
ticle." oor,
The amendment holds the recor'
| of being before the country lonss
Than any other successful amehu
ment to the constitution. 1t was N
PRODUCED as the sixteenth amehu
| ment and has been successfully IN
seventeenth, eighteenth ana nine
lteenth and has been before ever
session of congress since its initia
appearance.
| During the first thirty-five year
after its introduction into congress
the amendment made practicall
no progress and until seven years ag
it had not been debated on tn
floor for thirty years. But tn
campaign for the movement wa
slowly but steadily gaining groun
in the states.
i Meanwhile Miss Anthony made
test of the right of women to cas-
the ballot by going to the polls an
voting. She was arrested and con
victed and. though she refused I
Ipsy her fins, was never iailst