Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-03-02
from an Exchanget

account of "a Tragedy the writer places women
who desire the right of suffrage in the same cate
cory with political tricksters, saloon-keepers and
drunkards; and adds ''if women had the right to
vote, in every whisky State would be found, some
of them at least, in the saloons veing with men in
the support of their party. Then when female
modesty and female home influence were gone, our
country would die for want of moral support. We
would join the Prohibitionists today if we did not
see they have connected great evil with great
good The writer is evidently ignorant of what
women have done where the right of suffrage has
been granted them, or he is so blinded by preiu-
dice that he will not believe the testimony of eve
witnesses. can ounce of experience is worth
ton of theory" For light on this subject we re-
fer our friend to Wyoming, where women have
been voting since 1869. We have only to read
the messages of the governors for the past eight
cen years to know how strongly they testify to the
good that has resulted since women have exercised
the privilege of suffrage. Gov. Hoyt said in his
message of 1882 that under the system of impair
tial suffrage 1--WE have better laws, better officers
better institutions, better morals and higher So
cial condition in general than could otherwise ex-
ist. Not one of the predicted evils-such as loss
of delicacy, and disturbance of home relations.
has followed in its train Other governors ex-
press themselves in the same happy vein. We
value the testimony of these governors, because it
is impartial. They are not dependent upon the
vote of the women, as they are appointed by the
president; and furthermore, some of these GOV
ernors, if not all of them, were opposed to woman
suffrage. But let us hear also the testimony of
some of the ministers. DR.. B. f. Crazy, presid-
ing elder of the M. E. churches of Northern Col
orado and Wyoming says: "The statement has
been made and widely circulated, that at the late
election in the Territory no women voted except
the baser sort | know that all such statements
are utterly without foundation. The very best
ladies of the Territory vote; and, as they general
ly vote on the right side of all questions the lies
told to their detriment originate with men of the
baser Sort with defeated demagogues and disap-
pointed strikers and the meanest kind of pelti-
clans, who hate the majority of the women because
of their pure lives and Independent ballots" Rev.
W. G. Harvey, of the Baptist church, says: II
came to Laramie prejudiced against woman suf-
frage, but have been thoroughly converted 1t
has had no bad results, and it's good results have
been incaculable." Now let's travel little
further on and see how it works in Washington
Territory. The women voted for the first time in
1884, The newspapers of the Territory, even
those which opposed woman suffrage spoke favor
ably of the results. 1t is said of one of the viest
towns in the Territory "that the uproarious thea
ters, dance houses, square brothels and Sunday
fights are things of the past" And what brought
about the change? The ballots cast by the women.
And instead of polling places being dangerous and
unfit for ladies, it is said that in many places they
wnrn Adorned with shruhs and Howare Rnt tbie
is not to be wondered att it is part of womans
mission to make the world more attractive. Hear
what Chief Justice Greene, of Washington Terri
tory, says in his charge to the grand jury in 1884:
"The opponents of woman suffrage in this Terri
tory are found allied with a solid phaanx of gam
bers, prostitutes and drunkard makers" At an
other time he said to the grand jury ''Twelye
terms of court, ladies and gentlemen, have now
held, in which women have served as grand and
petite jurors, and it is certainly fact beyond dis