The Labor enquirer., 1888-03-31
WOMAN'S COLUMN.
ra,sea b. nrs. 4. Z. w.sn..-,.

been going forward for severa
weeks and the petitions from ever,
town and neighborhood have beer
sent to the national woman suffrage
convention soon to convene q,
Washington, d. c. In circulating
the petition at Loveland I wa.
much surprised and grati6ed tc
see the advance in public opinion
here during the past ten years.
procured I6o names and canvassed
only about half the town as the
time was too short, and the peti.
tons having to be returned March
1. About eight people in ten
signed the petition when invited
to do so, the number of mems
names about equaling those Of the
women. Their motives for signing
we're various, ranging all the way
from good-natured indifference to
intelligent enthusiasm. One man,
prominent and good citizen here,
who years ago was bitterly op-
posed to the women's voting. when
approached with the paper signed
his name without word and in
duced another man standing near
to do the same. Another business
man, an old settler said with alac-
rity Certainly; My wife is just as
good as ! am and ought to vote il
she wants to-" But she didn't
want to and refused to sign. Two
women declined because If they
should vote they would vote just
as their husbands did anyhow"
while another said, while writing
her name, that she always aehsd
to vote on election days as her
husband was a rank republican
and she was rank democrat and
she wanted TO kill his vote"
The pleasant, just-sprouting-a-
moustache young man, who assists
in the depot, declined adding his
autograph saying. I'VE don't dare
to let the ladies vote" "Ah! my
child" replied, you and ! and
all Of us could not stop it il we
wished-it is bound to come"
Several women who. when the Pc
tition was offered, declared they
didn't want to vote and never
would, and believed we had enough
to do without, etc, etc, .,(you all
know that line of talk ended by
signing their own full names and
inducing others in the same house
to sign theirs.
There are few women, | find,
who. no matter how much they
imagine themselves opposed at
first, are not amenable to reason
and are astonished to discover in
themselves, on consideration. a
decided inclination to vote on the
liquor Question. the school govern
ment or the matter of looking
after the money collected of them
in the way Of taxes; and earnest
men are becoming more and more
convinced that the general demor-
alization of governmental and So
eiety affairs can never be perma-
nently improved without the bal
lotseof women.
-
wonder il the late reservoir
convention held in Denver has
convinced people that the state
should control the water for the
benefit OF the people1
wonder il the real estate ex-
change "fellars" and their worthy
colleagues" would not like to "un-
load" lot OF Improbable ditch
property out of which the bottom
tell soon after the anti-royalty
decisionp
| wonder il corporations and
land jobbers and English ditch"
men will not now become enthusi-
astie for state ownership Of bitches
and see a possibility of selling out
to save themselves from the con-
sequences OF their own overeach-
lng greed'
! wonder il congress, while
looking up the governmental
telegraphy business, will not dis
cover that there are few cor
potations, syndicates, ETC., who
will not sell cheap() and who arc
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