o women a voice in the enactment of laws pertaining to
divorce and the custody of children and division of property
would be merely recognizing an undeniable right.

IV. Municipal regulations in regard to houses of
prostitution, of gambling, of retail liquor traffic, and of
all other abominations of modern society, might be shaped
very differently and more perfectly were women allowed the
ballot.

V. If women had a voice in legislation, the momentous
question of peace and war, which may act with such fearful
intensity upon women, might be settled with less bloodshed.

VI. Finally, there is no condition, status in life, of rich
or poor; no question, moral or political; no interest,
present or future; no ties, foreign or domestic; no issues,
local or national; no phase of human life, in which the
mother is not equally interested with the father, the
daughter with the son, the sister with the brother.
Therefore the one should have equal voice with the other in
molding the destiny of this nation.

Believing these considerations to be so important as to
challenge the attention of all patriotic citizens, and that
the people have a right to be heard in the only
authoritative manner recognized by the constitution, we
report the accompanying resolution with a favorable
recommendation in order that the people, through the
legislatures of their respective States, may express their
views:

JOINT RESOLUTION _proposing an amendment to the Constitution
of the United States_:

_Resolved_ by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in congress assembled, (two-thirds
of each House concurring therein), That the following
article be proposed to the legislatures of the several
States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United
States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of the said
legislatures, shall be valid as part of said constitution,
namely:

SECTION 1. The right 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 sex.

SE