Our National Sin.

thether 9. government of men, by men,
over all worm n be the best possible govern—
;rrcn‘i ma}. treatable
guiL.‘..'..rr‘.l'r.atry‘; 1.. «,:;{,-:’:rily'

Claim, but so low},

in a land where
founded on such
; prc-f‘essedlv it gov-
:ounded on ‘n-ze right
«it half the
u. not be recs-gnizwl
. i from the region of de—
bate. w ;-: . ;'- conditions i: in Willi.
Olliﬁfril‘Cllf 1.3: 1;: (In iii'imeralit',
dyed with tyrn‘misy,and. it is the
duty of , low of truth to denounce
' Ci‘iv? wishes to
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may be r. c: .
otracy mitt; . .. ii ‘ ”very government it—
iieif be ;. hypocrite moral sense of the
people run}. he hopelessly confused. There-
llJTC, ‘3']:‘1'2/ 1123.31 2717’. oma'ﬁ evil") SLTIVCS If)
seen; e to now Lllel';ll‘lCl'll.SE:Cl half of the
people tl':.e 11‘... and privileges the‘Consti-
tution pl‘OfC‘ to cor-fer upon them is WOTK-
ing to draw the g‘nrernirient up to a higher
plane of morals. At present we behold a
right accorcetl is strongest terms by the
Constitution of Nation deliberately and
forcibly withheld by its Supreme Court; the
inheritance given to both the daughters and
the sons by the fathers, forcibly retained in
the sole possession of the sons.

Whether any worrien or all women want
their rightful. share in this inheritance, what
they would do with it if they had it, and
whether it might prove to be the best, or
the worst, possible thing for themselves, are
all side issues which under our present Con-
stitution it is unnecessary to consider. Be-
sides, there is but one scientific method of
settling such speculations and that is to ac-
cord women the political rights the Consti—
tution promises to all its citizens, and await
the results.

Butif we are to have a in e government
of the people, if half the people are to be
ruled not only without their consent but
Ht'fﬂl‘:".3l: their intelligent protest, why let us
at least, in the interests of. public morality,
bring our professions into harmonywith our
pﬁaciice. Our 'National sin 15 not in selling
pinchbeck but in loudly proclaiming to all
the earth that our miserable pinchbeck 15
pure gold—Elle” Battelle Dz'ez‘rz'c/c.

The night has a thousand eyes.
The day has one;

Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the setting sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,
The heart has one;

Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.

Federal Suffrage.

Members of the Committee for the
several States and Territories should
present the matter to every State organi-
zation of men and women; should, as far
as possible, urge auxiliaries and individ-
uals to push ll e work in their respective
localities, and see that at all rallies, as-
sembles, mass—meetings and picnics, the
matter is presented.

'l‘he work need not be conﬁned to
uonibers of the committee, but the
chairman earnestly requests he co-ope—
ration of every person who favors this
line of work. Send on individual or
collective memorials, or memorials of
organizations or meetings ofﬁcially
Slgilctl.

' The following is suggested as a form
of memorial.

To 27% Senate and flours of Ratvesentrz-
tar/(rs in Congress: Assemélm’:

WHEREAS, the right to vote for members
of the House of Representatives is, by the
Constitution of the United States, vested in
the people of the United States Without con-
dition, limitation or restriction, and women
are people: Therefore, we adult citizens of
the United States, earnestly request your
honorable bodies to pass a bill enabling
women citizens of the United States to vote
or members of the House of Representa-

(If signed by a meeting or organization
the following should be added:)

The (name of Association or meeting)
assembled on this—~day of——1892. ap-
proved the above, and directed their ofﬁcers
to certify this fact, (Signaturesﬁ)

Petitions and memorial should be sent to
Clara Bewick Colby, Chairman of Federal
Suffrage Committee, Washington, D. C.

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Will be presented “Incl! SliOlllQ nave 2i'.’.’1Cl<)tll:2'.!‘ll)ll-
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Lion.

Report of Federal Suffrage Committee.

Immediately after my appoiz'itment as
chairman of the Committee on Federal
Suffrage I published in the NOMAN’S Turn--
UNE, and afterwa’w-gis in the 1 “Yd/5min! dial/5-
z‘z‘rz, the argument of ,?r>incis Minor, which.
having been published in the Arena of De-
cember, 15.9], had engaged, public Listeniicn.

The bill as prepared by Mr. Minor was
sent to Hon. Clarence D. Clark, of ‘Nyc-
ming. and was by him presented in Con-
gress April 25th, and was referred to the
Judiciary Committee of the House. It
reads:

AN ACT

To protect the right of citizens of the United States
'to register and to vote for members of the House of
Representatives.

W/zercar. The right to choose members of the
House of Representatives is vested by the Constitu-
tion in the people of the several States, without dis-
tinction of sex; but for want of proper legislation has
hitherto been restricted to one half of the people; for
the purpose. therefore, of correcting this error, and
of giving effect to the Constitution:

Be, it enacted, by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Con-
gress assembled:

SECTION I. At all elections hereafter held in the
several States of this Union for members of the
House of Representatives, the right of citizens of the
United States of either sex, above the age of twenty-
one years, to register and to vote for such representa-

,tives, shall not be denied. or abridged, by the United j

States, or by any State, on account of sex.

I then sent a copy of Mr. Minor’s argu-
ment with the text of the act marked to
every member of the House; and toevery
member of the judiciary Committee, the
same enclosed in a personal letter, stating
that such a bill had been introduced, its
number, and that it was now in their hands
for consideration. I begged their early and
favorable consideration of the matter, but
no reply was received from any of them; so
I have no means of knowing whether they
deemed the privilege of voting for members
of their body worthy of being exercised by
women citizens or not.

The duty of securing members of the
Committee from the States being laid upon

line, I proceeded to write letters to secure
,the iiiLGlligxmt cooperation of one woumn
in each State who would agree to present
the suquct before every organized body of
me: and women in the State. I sent each
one a bulletin which explained the work,
gave the rirgun'ient on which it was based
and the form of meinoria to be used. 1 had
much difficulty in ﬁnding women who were
«.1 ﬁling to ever. promise to undertake s< ar-
duous a work, while at the same time I
could not give them even a postage stamp
t-f;1‘-.varci.~:iir: expense. After writing: mnnv
letttrs 1 obtained the followingmembers for
the. Coriimittec: Alabama, 0. l. l-lild cth;
f‘.r?«:ansas.l’2innie j. Chunn; California, Mary
M. Bowman; Connecticut, Isabella Beecher
l-i':.:cker; District of Columbia. Ella M. S.
Marble; Georgia, H. Augusta Howard; lili-
=rl,ois,Emma Smith Devoe; Indiana,l-lelen M.
Cougar; Iowa, Catherine M. Pierce; Kansas,
Elizabeth F. Hopkins; Kentucky, Josephine
K. Henry; Louisiana, Eliza C. Ferguson;
Maine, Ann H. Greeley: Maryland, Dr. N.
V. Mark; Massachusetts, Evaleen L. Ma-
son; Michigan, M, A. & M. E. Root; Mis-
souri, S. M. Ford; Montana. H. C. Worth-
ington; Nebraska, Helen M. Goff; New

ampshire, Marilla Marks Brewster; New
Mexico. Mamie E. Marble; New York, Isa-
bel Howland; North Dakota, Anna Giert-
sen; Ohio, Louisa Southworth; Oklahoma.
M. H. Switzer; Oregon Abigail Scott Dunl-
way: Pennsylvania, Matilda Hindman;
Rhode Island. Ellen Belles; South Carolina,
Virginia 1). Young; South Dakota, Eliza-
beth VVardull; Tennessee, Lido Meriwetlier;
Texas, Elizabeth Fry; Utah, Emmeline B.
‘Nells; Vermont, Laura Moore; Virginia,
Orra B. Langhorne; Washington, Mary l.
Chamberlain; W'est Virginia, M. M. Hol-

bert; Wisconsin, Rev. Olympia Brown;
W'yoming, Theresa A. Jenkins.

In addition to securing these persons to
have charge of the State work, I obtained
by personal solicitation the local assistance
of many persons who have sent in a goodly
number of the petitions received.

Petitions have been received from twenty
States as follows:

Georgia, 2—State W. S. A. and Atlanta Citizens.

Illinois, 4—Harvey Prohibition Club; E. S, A., 155
members; First Congressional District; State E. SA.

Indiana, 2—244 Citizens; Elkhart Federal Associa-
tion. 300 members.

Iowa, 2-Polk Co. W. S. A.; Newton E. S. 5., 40
members.

Kansas, s—Biblc Meeting of Salina Citizens: Beloit,
Attica, Clay Centre, and Wichita Suffrage Societies.
Kentucky. 2—Statc and Kenton Co. E. R. A.