Show WOMEN ARE PERSONS at lost last it has baa been discovered that the agitation carri carried edon on for about forty years in order to obtain for women the right of franchise by an addition to the constitution is ia entirely uncalled for it to is now claimed that that wonderful instrument of human freedom gives that right to the gentler sex ex as an freely and unreservedly im aa to men wa W P harwood in the north american Amer ioan review takes this thin view of the matter and given hie ble reasons for it article XIV which has hai been in force since july 1868 reade read I 1 all pe persons boons burn born or naturalized in the united states and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the united states and of the state wherein they reside no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities muni ties of citizens ol of the united states nor shall any state deprive any person of life liberty or property without withof t d due us process of law nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws the author mentioned argues that this article clearly defines citizens ae 80 persons born or naturalized in the united states and accords to all such irrespective of sex bex equal political privileges the next swen amendment dment declared to be in force in 1870 reads reade the rights of citizens of the united states to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of race color or previous condition of servitude this amendment it to la pointed out our gives the women of the colored race the undoubted right to vote in the stated since it expressly specifies that citizens formerly in bondage are accorded this privilege and catl none ens are defined as impersonal persons I born or naturalized in the republic the only question is therefore whether the women are Per persons som 3 and according to the unanimous testimony of lext lexi cog raphers that fact cannot be denied it to is further pointed out that the question may be of great importance lu in the coming presidential election there are some states in which the women will cast their votes for presidential electors elector what will be done aone with the votes of these states will they be rejected in spite of the fact that they are under the fun ot dt the abe state lawt in ca case 1 ee t the h election should abound be very close these would be exceedingly interesting mr harwood concludes that the right to vote can be denied the women only by the adoption of a constitutional amendment declaring that male citizens alone have the privileges contemplated tem plated in the granting of american citizenship |