In Tennessee an amendment may not be submitted a second time till after 6 years. and in Vermont not until 10 years shall have passed. Now. let us see how the women would go about amending the constitution of New Mexico. Here Is a State in which no educational test may be imposed. Here is a State in which the vote of the ignorant peon or tile illiterate immigrant counts for as much as the vote of the farmer. the miner. the business man. or man following a profession. Yet to pass the suffrlage amend. ment it would need to be carried through both houses of the legislature by a threefourths vote. That is not all.
Identified stereotypes
The speaker stereotypes immigrants as ignorant and equates their vote with that of a 'peon'.