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Show The Ladies Protest. We ai- in receipt of a communication trom tlio tie.isur-r of (ho Nattrnal Vmerlean Woman S'ulIaiio tisanciation, In which attention Ik culled to a clause ui tl.e bill before Congress coucornliic" tlitv ndiii'R ion of (be Terrltorlea Into 'he Ui Ion. It ia one to which the Indies bject, and (hey desire (o have their lro(ea( malnn( it widely know u. The hill prupoaes to unite Oklahoma ami Indian Territorim lulu one statfe. under the name ot Oklahoma, and tr I'oinbine New Mexico and Arixouiv under un-der the inline of Arizona. It Iiiih passed ho llouau ami II n now before the donate coinniltleo on Territories. TTlie portion (o which opecial objuc.llou la made, leads "flint mill Stale shall neer enact any law leatiictinn or abndttfnu' Ihr rikilit ot sull'intfo un iii'connr i,t race, color, or previoua condijion nf tj(vi- tude, ot nti account of uny oth, r cim. ditiona or iiittllllci:iiiiic, ,ae and i-x-oept on iiccoiint ot Illiteracy, minority, aex, unuvletluii of felony, ni'iittil cnu-lithili, cnu-lithili, or twldenoe; pruyidcil, how -J H'er, (hut on v audi Iratilrtlnui hIuiII bo inadi! tiiilforiii mid applicable ti'iko to I all clti7.ua." I The hiillas justly b uinnd that thul woirf "wx" bo strlrkeii Irom thu p.iru- crtiph. Tlmy object li phiciiiK wuueja ill one cIhm with illiterate", iinuorf felona, anil hnuttlea. This i-t of coiirBeS very nfteit doiicin a apiin of Knllaiitrfjj when women criuiltniln are tre-i(ed uK lirtfOmiiKftiln leliii, outahlo (tic rcucm of law, but that is dillereiit. To Im finffij olllciully uiotheiM, witea, mid sisters Iff the el ma cri'iitel tiv I'.f i t.ji . M inalijj pur.minpli, hum ouii tkienuiina' wlujn both women and men may pin In piual leal. Whatever tin- u'tu" i ' in iy bsh on the iUcstiou ul 4ilrnirit', tho w"t"SS of the Miiiotiy Hli'Mibt not be doi-radetf I by an net of ('onuifHS The (ii.tcimeiit of such a law wouldSt' boiiles, be vory imprudent. .Sonio titn,fc thu now Mutes will, in nil probabilii Join tho progressive Ntatcj anil exteutllj tho frulicliifo to tliu wonieii, wfmu should (iinjj'ewj before hand proliiblPu llioiu from duini to'f The sucuestioSII ia very proprrly made, that all iMwjI estid in this matter witm to therlfi Hpeclivo VotlatolH or trf Hnnl...ISSjl r,yrMjiiiaiiV,tiiTwf'1iKO'Tlnl,tlTXr,-JJB Territorieai or in (lie icat ofthe couinnt-tee, couinnt-tee, nakiinr ein-li lo work for (he omia sion of tho woitl "sex" from tho paragraph? para-graph? quoted above, or tho omiaaion of thuentlru partiinph. Deaoret Now?. |