English VI.

Question: Resolved, That an amendment should be obtained to the National Constitution by which the right of suffrage shall be extended to women.

Brief for the Affirmative.

A. H. GORDON and E. L. HOUSE.

Best general references: Forum 11,315; Our Day, II, 41; George Pellew Woman and the Common wealth Pamphlets.

I. Woman suffrage is constitutional- (a)Women are citizens: Rev. Stat. Section Section 1992-1994.-(b) As citizens they are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of U. S. citizens: Justice Bradley, in live Stock Assn. vs. Crescent City, 1 Abbot, 396.

II. Women are qualified for suffrage.

(a)Physically: Pellew, Woman and the Common wealth, 13(b) Mentally, Ibid, 10.(c) Morally: Ibid, 20.

III. Justice demands woman suffrage,

(a)"Taxation without representation is tyranny" T. W. Higginson, Common Sense about Women, 199; Pamphlets. (b) For protection of civil rights: Wendell Phillips; Pamphlets; Charles Sumner's speech, March 7, 1866.(c)It will raise position of woman: Contemp. Rev. LVIII 830, (1890).(d)Women desire it: House Misc, Doc. 46 Cong. 2 Sess. Vol. II, No 1248.

IV. Woman Suffrage would be beneficial; Pamphlets.-(a)By purifying politics:

Woman and the Commonwealth, 22 (1) Lessening corruption.-(2) Raising standard of office holders,-(b) By improving legislation.(1) On temperance: J. D-Long. No Distinction of Sex in the Right to Vote.-(2)On education: ibid.

V. Woman Suffrage is practicable.-(a) Has been a success so far as tried.- (1) In Wyoming: pamphlets,- (2) In Kansas ibid.

VI. No argument can be made against woman suffrage that will not apply to male suffrage: Pamphlets.-(a)Temperament,_(b)Sphere.(c)Refinement. (d) Could not enforce decrees of suffrage. Brief for the Negative.

W. C. DOUGLASS and F. W. MOORE.

Best general references: Minority Re-port on Woman Suffrage, 50th Congress. 2nd Session Senate Reports, 1. no. 2543 J. J. Ingalls; The Sixteenth Amendment Forum IV. 1-13 (Sept, 1887). An Appeal. against Female Suffrage, in Nineteenth Century XXV, 781-785 (June 1889). Bushnell's Women's Suffrage. the Reform against Nature.

I The right to vote is not inherent. (a)Not necessarily one of the privileges of a citizen: Supreme Court Decision, Min or vs. Happersett, 21 Wallace 165-178

III Woman's appropriate and Sufficient place is in the home: Senate Report, supra, p. 15.(a)Physically and mentally unfitted for politics: Ibid, p. 11.

III. Women should have equality not identity of rights (a)Their obligations are not the same (1)Taxation: Sen. Rep. supra p. 14 (2) Enforcement of laws: Nineteenth Century, supra, P 781 (b) They are represented in the truest sense Sen. Rep. p. 24.

IV. The Conditions do not favor woman suffrage.-(a)Only a minority of women desire it: Sen. Rep. p. 24; Nineteenth Century, supra.-(b)It would involve-(1) An addition of ignorant and degraded voters: Forum II, 439.-(3)New scandals: Forum II, 447.

V. The experiment in Utah, Kansas, and elsewhere has proved a failure.-(a) The majority of the most intelligent women do not vote.-(b)Governments disorganized.- (c) Inoperative laws in creased.