Show we OT A INFER E p 1 ence enoe 11 THE louisville courier journal commenting on the decision of jatie justice e harloff inthe in the kellar case bays hays clr gives comfort t to 0 the th advocates of af female suffrage 12 is was waa decided that a midor born thorn in a foreign a d h country be cemes an american Americ gu pi citizen if his alfens aliens mother marn marries carriea marr hes iea a naturalized citizen and aa fin alien female becomes an american citizen by marriage vitha witha with a naturalized citizen the courier journal to UM al bays Kel Rel bellars lars larb mother is a citizen i of the united state and the logical inference ouda from this is that she can vote andja and it is difficult to avoid the con can elusion that all women born in this country mare jare are also entitled to vote if keyarts arellar Ke parys a mother becomes a citizen merely by marrying a naturally natural zed ld citizen cit izen amative american amerlean woman must MMA certainly have equal privilege privileges f 11 tilli reasoning ia 19 on a par with thit papera ravings over the exor mor lt conro confounds olti citi ze nai nal wath the tha elective franchise the lawa lawo of the united litotes regu arid naturalization ehla tha tua different states and terri elective fran franchise chiese chirse A clai decision that keffala ken fars fara mother is a citizen doe does not confer upon her the right to vote nor does it follow by logical inference that sha eha had any m acro or a right to vote after than before the ruling there are millions of citizens of the united states that cannot vote A child born in the united states la is a citizen as soon as it utters its rbt cry bra ara U citizens just the same as an native born men allen alien women may by naturalization become citizens just the same earne ag as alien men and they havo have this advant advani advantage dge as plainly so set bet forth in the tho ruling of justice harlan that just as soon as an alien woman marries a native born cr naturalized 61 citizen she becomes naturalized herself without any oath certificate court proceedings ce or other formality than the marriage k I 1 but this does not give her the right to vote if she is under awen tyone ty one years of age she cannot vote in iii utah or wyoming and in the various states bhe she cannot vote who ihen ther native b born rn or naturalized naturalize dp if she is as old as aw aleh the suffrage is a privilege clint clift citizenship enship la Is a right there are certain conditions required of citizens before they can vote and those conditions vary in different parts of the union they are prescribed by the different le jle ala sin tures turea res reb and without them thom no izen S can exercise the elective franchise There therefore foie the courier journal is all abroad on this question quentio D as so I 1 16 t is on the c mormon question the kellar case give s no comfort to the advocates of woman suffrage 1 I they understood juht just j nat as well before the decision flie thereon reon as since that women are citizens if the courier journal did not and they understand perfectly well what that leading literary light of the south does dees not seem to comprehend that it takes tabes local law to endow cr or female with the voting privilege that is what whet they are working for on te be half of women citizens and their cause is just juit and rational 0 |