Show wh white ite supremacy in in south not menaced by proposed federal suffrage measure by MRS OSCAR R HUNDLEY former president alabama equal suffrage association the southern thern women of today while venerating the traditions of the last century are alert and perceive the fact that the ultra conservatism of that time had to give place when the fire of progress was kindled at the dawn of the present century ce now when conditions potently demand a change so that they may male make easier the economic condition of a great mass of people southern women are rapidly rallying to the cause cause of woman suffrage which has for ita high purpose remedial action the alabama constitution as adopted in 1901 prescribes certain qualifications for voters which result in the comparative disfranchisement of the in the state despite this fact about three thousand negro nien men do actually vote being adjudged qualified by the election officers Offic eTs of the state and permitted to register as qualified voters the argument that giving the ballot to white women will give it indiscriminately monegro to negro women also is unsound in so far as it applies a to an amendment lo 10 the state constitution because the laws already in existence in alabama controlling the qualifications and registration of voters will necessarily apply to the control of woman voters in the same manner that t they apply and control the male voters f those who fear the effect eff ec t a federal amendment would have in relation to the enfranchisement of the negro women are reminded of the fifteenth amendment to tho the federal constitution which prohibits the states f from rom discriminate discriminating n against ii a man mail oh account accod 1 ni ol of race ta 2 ce or car color I 1 ye yet t in 14 t hl state vf of A out of q a af negro male population tiou of ohly pout three e tho thousand asana usana are bitted to lo to register gi ster and vote vore r this legal status as to the negro vote and the administration of the law governing it has been permit permitted tec I 1 by affirmative decisions of the united states supreme court in connection with this quonhon of winte white supremacy it is an interesting tact fact that in alabama as in every eadry other southern state except two mississippi and south carolina the number of white women greatly exceeds the number of negro women in ain the th a fifteen states south of the M mason ason and dixon li line ae there are twice as many white women as there are negro women woman suffrage sui Trago would not n ot only make inake sure white control now but white supremacy would grow yearly according to the official estimates of population for 1916 published by the bureau of the cen census sus which show an increase iacre aso of per cent in white w hite population in twelve southern states in those states is only 56 per cent chile the increase im tease of negro population |