Show iere FF There's Theres a u Will T T Thas has been assumed quite generally that when the federal Lcd fed I i. i eral suffrage amendment is js ratified by the thirty- thirty sixth sih i th state the way would at once be cleared for women e everywhere throughout tho the United States to vote o on equal l i terms with men But now comes Attorney Gen c cral al a Allen of ol Massachusetts with an opinion that even e a alter after tho the fed federal er I suffrage c amendment is so ratified the women of Massachusetts cannot Vote vole until the tho s state to constitution is is amended amended or until Congress passes a law c conferring fenn the suffrage on women T. T If Ji f the opinion of the Massachusetts attorney general gen gen- cral eral is upheld and carries ennies weight in other states where there re is the same sume provision in their constitutions there ma may be several millions of oC disappointed women in the nation when the voting time timo comes around Tn n many of the states the bill of rights rig sections of their ir constitutions defining qualifications for voters m ime the word ord male malo and anti heretofore the tho women of course were thereby inhibited from exercising the franchise but it was generally antic anticipated that that- the Ule l amendment would be bc supreme and immediately immediate immediate- ly Iy effective c without the ail aid of any congressional enact enact- Such may in ut reality he be the case yet et as ns one generals general's opinion doesn't make a condition that all will have ha to swallow but it raises a question which is disconcerting to the suffragists headquarters But where there is a will there is a way and it itis is probable the present Congress would not bo bo be long in passing an enabling act of or wide nation-wide application once the federal const is amended to authorize it Either that or get a new attorney general for Massa Mass Mass- a r |