The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-08

polls. A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial divides these voters ioto three
classes, namely, those who never,vote, those
who always vote, and those who do or do
not vote just as they are solicited, and says
that the candidate must see to getting these
out sand carriage hire is awful" They
vote politically, with few exceptions, as
their father, brother or lover do, mud have
this advantage over males that they are al
lowed to vote whether legal voters or not,
because, as the Rocky Mountain NeDs
says "The first lady whose vote was chal-
4" lenged at Laramie dropped her ballot
" and INDUCED in good cry. whereupon
q" her escort sailed in and made 1t hot for
Z" her challenger. After few fights on
I" this subject challenging ladies was, by
" common consent, discontinued
Female suffrage could affect the admin
istration of justice in but three ways
namely by making her law maker, II law
expounder or placing her in the jury box.
We have already seen that no female has
been elected to the legslature-th law
making power--or to judicial office save
In one instance, and the experiment of
placing her in the jury box has, also, been
a failure. II was tried Tor a year or two
and 1t was, during that time, rare to see u
Jury, either grand or petit, without one or
more female members, when il was aban-
doneu with no prospect, as it is said, OF it's
ever being revived. The most enthusiastic
advocates of woman suffrage in Wyoming
freely admit that woman is untitled for the
Jury box, and one of them gives bis cx-
perience az follows He VAS one Of q
panel of jurors on which there we're five
females, two of whom became ''sick and
nervous" before the trial was ended. and
then the jury were locked up for seven
hours and the whole thing wass "horribly
inconvenient" that female jueurs ended
there. But conclusive argument il af-
forded nv the statement that mot more
90 than one criminal case in ten is fit for al
unmarried woman tn hearth propor.
tlOD 10 pINbdDiN -i'itN' w pt'i'i
and states, but the same class OF eases ex-
list everywhere, and if woman cannot prop
erly act as juror in all cases, she shonld
In none.
It's effect upon public morals generally
has not been noticeable. The newspaper
correspondent already referred TO says that
he visited Wyoming in 1868, before gov
ernment or society was organized, and
found it ''rough," that he visited all the
towns again In 1869, after the vigilance
committee had hanged the cut ihroais and
run off the thieves, and found IA toera-
"bly peaceable country" and that If there
has Teen any change for the better since
1870--tbe year of the advent of female
suffrage-he Is unable TO discover it, To
come down from general statement to an
item or two OF statistics, it appears that the
whole voting population Of the territory il
some sixteen thousand, about one-tenih of
whom are females. There are in the terri.
tory one hundred saloons. or one 10 every
one hundred and eighty of the population,
men, women and children and three hun
dred prostitutes. or one to every five female
voters and one to every sixty Of the popu-
lation, men, women and children. These
figures require no comment. They tell
whether or not female suffrage has resulted
in improving the public morals and has
tended 70 the moral elevation of woman.
As we have said we have only intended to
present facts not draw concusions-the
conclusions follow from the facts.