Susan B. Anthony and condemn her under Federal
Law?[30]

Another decision of the Supreme Court said in relation to the
Fourteenth Amendment, that the negro, because of citizenship, was
made a voter in every State of the Union. The court went on to
say that it had a broader significance, that it included the
Chinese or any nationality that should become citizens. That
court has said we are citizens. If the Chinese would have the
right to vote if they were citizens, have not we the right to
vote because of citizenship?

A third decision was in the case of the United States vs. Kellar
in the State of Illinois. A man arrested for illegal voting was
brought before the court; he was born abroad and was the son of
an American woman. Justice Harlan held that because his mother
was a citizen, she had transmitted citizenship to her son,
therefore he had a right to vote. This right must have been
inherent in the mother, else she could not have transmitted it to
her son.

Mrs. Julia B. Nelson (Minn.), who had been for many years teaching the
freed negroes of the South, said:

What are the obligations of the Government to me, a widow,
because my husband gave his life for it? I have been forced to
think. As a law-abiding citizen and taxpayer and one who has
given all she could give to the support of this Government, I
have a right to be heard. I am teaching for it, teaching
citizens. I began teaching freedmen when it was so unpopular that
men could not have done it. The voting question met me in the
office of the mission, which sends out more women than men
because better work is done by them. A woman gets for this work
$15 per month; if capable of being a principal she has $20. A man
in this position receives $75 a month. There must be something
wrong, but I do not need to explain to you that an unrepresented
class must work at a disadvantage.

If it were granted to women to fill all positions for which they
are qualified, they would not be so largely compelled to rush
into those occupations where they are unfairly remunerated. As so
many people have faith that whatever is is right, the law as it
stands has great influence. If it puts woman down as an inferior,
she will surely be regarded as such by the people. If I am
capable of preparing cit