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sess a republican form of government Our correspondent says : " Tlie
women of Wyoming have no suffrage in the Senate of the United
StateSb " We would ask him whether the women of Wyoming would have
suffrage in the Senate , provided they, voting an entirely separate ticket
fix>m the men, should elect a majority of the State Senate and Legislature,,
and they in their capacity should elect a woman as senator, and she should
sit in the Senate Chamber and vote with other senators? Such a con-
tingency would be possible under the present equal enjoyment of rights
and privileges in the State of Wyoming ; and when viewed regardless
of the influences of precedents of custom, fully and forever establishes
the fact that all the citizens of all States are entitled to equal exercise
of rights with the citizens of Wyoming, under that provision of the
Constitution which provides ** That no State shall, without its consent,
be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate."

" Children are citizens and not necessarily voters. Women are citi-
zens and not necessarily voters." Is all this quite true? Are women,
as citizens, denied the right of voting for the same reasons that children
are? Children, until they arrive at what is made lawful age, do not
possess the common rights of adults outside of voting. At certain
ages they are not held responsible as citizens for the result of their ac-
tion — their parents stand responsibla They cannot hold nor convey
property in their own right — their guardians must do it for them. 