Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-09-17

State and the correspondent does not as
sumo that the working OF the experiment
there furnishes 4 full test Of what the system
might produce, OF goOdOr evil, IN differently
constituted communities. Still, human ma
ture Is much the same everywhere and Il
becomes instructive and important, conse-
quently. to learn how woman suffrage has
operated where it has had several years OF
trial. The results are summed up BY this
correspondent, as follows
First-It has certainly had no particular
or permanent effect in regard TO oihce-
holding. When first adopted, one woman
was elected superintendent OF public IN
struction, and another appointed justice oil
the peace That ends the list No woman
bas been chosen or nominated for delegate,
councilman, representative, police Judge,
or to any clerical Office The Offices are held
by men Just as before. and, a. lar as can
learn. most women would rather vote i0T
men than women.
Second-ln the courts 1t made wonderful
change for year or - ; women served Oh
both grand and petit Jnrles, and We were
promised a renovation Of society IN eonse-
quence Of their fine moral sense and strict
pesS IN enforcing the law. Nobody has
ANYTHING to say about II now, but II seems
reasonable 10 conclude that, II the system
had worked well, II would not have been
abandoned IA a year or two and never re
vived One man only found who would talk
freely on this point lie Was an enthusiastic
epicenist tbeiiover Ia mo sex IN politics }
and served on one jury with five ladies
The testimony was OF q nature peculiarly
disagreeahie 10 ladies, and from long sit
ting TWO OF them goJ nervous and SICK
The Jury had To be locked up seven noGrs-
From natural causes this was very emnar-
RAISING the two ladies were very SICK uY
The time q verdict wa found, and the
whole matter Wa - horribly IncouyenIeni
that nv infOrmer declared ne would ny the
TERRITORY rather than sit on a l1ry with Wo-
men again he still believed IL woman
iur.e-. "hut Oniy Il certain cases where
women are on trial. and their jury all wo-
men think Dc would have been rlsnt u
try Mrs Fair before jury OF women, etc
Another cplcaulst. a gentleman Who has
had experience 10 selecting Jurors. explains
the failure e. get more woman jurors 10y
the tact thai there are - lie" eligible
The Territory contains only 1900 women old
enough. and OF these the following c.as-es
are exsmpt. from the nature OF the case
all nursing motler-, all pregnant women,
all with sex or very young children de-
handing there care. al delicate. ueivou~
or HvsterIos women. al 90 notoil1u-l5
bad character. and al wh0 woull ht eA-
eruut f0r the same reasons as men j. any
country this would exclude nineteen 90; ui
twenty IN fact. u leaves only the perfectly
healthy. unmarried woman, ana those
married who have no children 1r are old
enough - have family grown Up There D.
not one unmarried woman in % hundred ul
would sit on jury, i she could help i..an1.
IN tins country nos more than one cIimiua.
case IN ten is III for al unmarried woman
70 hear. Mv informant say there a-e les
than two hundred ladies IL all Wyoming
who are al once eligible and III for jury
iury. Tai-. vli1 many other reasons 90 a
delicate nature. has caused women Jurlt-
t1he silently Discontinued a. utterly imarae-
ticabIe m the preseu; state of society 10
an old country. where there are a. many
women a. men. very few of them bad. and
a large proportion Of them widow and
married iGdie- with grown ~ chi!c-eu,
II might work better F5r The present "
have probably heard the last Of man
iurieS IL Wyoming.
THRIFT has made - noticeable dlhsr
cnce ia public morals. though some insist
mat Il has Mrs. Pos, and Mr. Arnold
leading suffrage ladies IL Cheyenne. bota
insist there nas been marked improve
rueut IN direct consequence of woman sui
frare Others say not ] can only present
nv own observation wa here 10 loo-,
before society. government, or anything
else was organ -ci. and found D, rough
country. ] visited all the towns again. n
l-Ga. after the vi-ilant- had hanged the
cut-throats and ruu 0f al the thieve-, and
government wa ORGANIZED. and found u
q to.cratle peaceful country. Il there ha-
been anv noticeable Improvement since
$50 when the women began q vote. iall
T. SCI l.. but an willing 10 take Their Forl
for it.
Fourtb-At the polls il certainly has bad
one good efect-to produce. better order
The ladies usually come IN carriage.
making "a sort Of gala day OF Il, and pas
through the crowd, which treats them wiki
the utmost respect In fact. one simply sees
there what one sees everywhere IL America
wien ladies are present-a decent respect
10y them. There have been q few fights abJu,
.adie- being challenged The first young
ladv no was challenged az Laramie drop
ped her ballot and began T. cry, upon when
her escort w haled q ay az the man who
challenged her vote. and sent INN iLt9 the
ditch After this had occurred few tlme-
No more ladies votes were challenged. Rnc
IN that respect they have the advantage oil
men
Fitth-Anothcr marked effect ha- been 70
vastly increase the cost of running for Of
Tee. L. seems the ladies may be divided
ipt1 three casse--a small number OF the
rather reserved, who never vote under any
circumstance q large class who always
vote. and the great middle ciass who vote
or DO not vote. lust a. 1t happens. or Just
a. they may be solicited The candidates
must see q getting these out, and carriage
hire is awiu.. 10 fact. 50 great grew this evil
and 50 much wa Il becoming matter OF
money. that the ladies few weeks ago. N
ful. convention protested against Il, and de-
clarei that they would walk - the polls or
not 20 at all The ladies vote rather
irregulariy. voting al general elections and
neelectinr the local or special elections.
At the election. last year. for delegate. az
least three f0urths OF the women In the Ter
ritorv voted at the municipal election. IN
December. probably not one III ten.
Sixth-As to IT. effect upon the ladies
themsel yes. there are almost a. many opIn-
ions as there are people IN Wyoming
Most probably j, has had no effect at all,
a.. even did the Suffrage possess some mYs-
terlous. mate power OF Improvement, 1t mas
not been established here long enough -
produce noticeable effect The women who
come u the Territories, IN nInety-nlne cases
ont Of q hundred. have their character fixed
for good or evil. before they arrive they
are generally of decided characters and firm
convictions. and 1t does not seem probable
that welding 80 small a mite OF political
power could affect them either way. The
political power OF prostitutes, which some
have dreaded, does not seem - be an in
mediate TACT. They only constitute one
fifth of the voting women, a candidate
who should bid openly Tor their support
would certainly lose more than he would
gain Besides. women OF that Class are. a.
a rule, utterly wlthOu; any logical compre
hensiOn OF how political or municipal ques-
tons would affect then, and totally lack
ing IN the faculty Of organization S1clal
i probably les among them than
among any other class OF people; and thou--
and Of them thrown together IN convention
could 10: organize IN twenty-five year.
A a rule. they vote for or with their per
-DDh4 lIltDI>. j. 10 AluAlCI7 vi -'hA W.
men. and thus their vote + divided very
much a. that Of any other class. There l.
no law to license them here. but the same
result Is attained By filming them once e
month. it being understood that if they cause
no disorder. they are not to be troubled till
the next month.
Nor have there been those family distur
Dances which some anticipated At least
times out of a hundred. man
and wife are Of the some politics. IL l. IN
this as in any other thing low, brutal
man coerees his wife by violence high
toned and honorable man, who dIsdalns to
usurp authority over his wife, does. IN fact
govern her ten-iold more efectually by the
constraint Of affection. Every one must
have observed that the honorable and gen
srous man really governs ms wife (vira-
goes always expected) far more than the
domestic tyrant. for the former Is an en-
pire over the soul and the mind a. well a.
the body. A great fool as well as great
brute must be that man who cannot res
train wife far more efsctua.ly than by
using force. The abused wife may swlndle
her husband in the ballot, as in a hundred
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