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Show AN IMPORTANT POINT- The qucHtioo aa to the limitation of tha fourteenth tmeu'lmeot to the fedora! fed-ora! oDQfltitutioD havioK been argued before the United StatcH supreme court, a d:cLiioD thereon ia daily looked for. Tho case in point is the suit of Mra. Myra Brad well, of ChieojiO, aainnt the State of Illinoia, fur riil'ua-iDg riil'ua-iDg to allow her to practice law, a he claiming, under the amendment, to be a bona fide citizen, the amendment declaring de-claring "ail persona born or naturalized in tho United States, and subject to tho jurindiction thereof, ' to be citizens. citi-zens. This involves a more important matter mat-ter than the simple one of a lady being permitted or refused the ritfht to practice prac-tice law. Should the decision of the supreme bench of the country be in Mrs. Bradwell'a favor, then there will be inntaotly added to the voting population popu-lation probably five millions of voters, for woman suffrage will be an accomplished accom-plished fact ; and it will then be a criminal to refuao a woman's ballot as it now is to refuse tho ballot of a negro. General Butler, general Farnsworth.and other eminent lawyers, members of congress, hold that the right to vote iaconferrcd upon women by thin amendment; and it was on tho strength of tliid legal opinion that several advocates of woman's rights placed themselves within tho powor of tho law, as now enforced, by voting at tho laat November elections, olaiming that they had tho right, constitutionally, constitution-ally, to do so. If it bo decided that women aro citizens, within tho meaning mean-ing of this constitutional amendment, then tho woman's rights agitation will oease, for every political right now enjoyed en-joyed by men will bo enjoyed by women; wo-men; aad a woman will bo us elegible for tho Presidential chair, or for a seat in either brunch of congress, as a mao. But should tho decision bo adverse ad-verse to tho womau-womcn, it is understood that tho agitation will be oontinued with renewed onergy, to Bcouro, at tho earliest possible day, tho passage of a sixteenth amendment to tho oonHtitutioD, acknowledging woman's rights. |