Rights, Privileges and CapacitiesBy Catherine Waugh McCulloch(American contemporary. Former President Illinois Woman Suffrage Association, and practicing attorney. The following is from a pamphlet, “Illinois Laws Concerning Women,” issued by the I. W. S. A.)
By Catherine Waugh McCulloch
(American contemporary. Former President Illinois Woman Suffrage Association, and practicing attorney. The following is from a pamphlet, “Illinois Laws Concerning Women,” issued by the I. W. S. A.)
We read that no person shall be denied any political rights, privileges, or powers on account of religion. The word sex should have been added. People may change their religion, but never their sex. Rights, privileges and capacities ought never to depend on color of eyes or hair, cast of features, sex or any other accident for which a person is not to be blamed and which a person can never overcome. Any other qualification demanded of a voter may be acquired by one’s own exertion, or the lapse of time. Property may be earned, minority out-grown,education secured, sanity regained, alienage removed, imprisonment outlived. But no industry, no age, no brilliancy, no morality, can change sex. Sex should be made less a disgrace instead of more of a disgrace than poverty, minority, alienage, insanity and criminality.