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DENVER, Colo, February let, 1927.
=..How about woman's suffrAgsP'
the OPTsc reader, who IL an American
citizen, alss q citizen Of Now Mexico,
aud who expects to remain 60, until
our fair Territory 10 admitted into the
union, might naturally inquire OF .
fellow c~itlEen, who has pasted through
two campaigns since Colorado has had
equal sufYrags-in the last OF which
more women voted than men.
Ny opinion may be biased ! have
always beCn in favor Of women voting
lin fact, I would be glad to turn the
whole business Of voting over 10 them
They cannot govern one another. and
theamen, much worse than we men
hAvs been governing ourselves and
them!
There are some men, who think
va men are too pure TO 60 into politics.
Argument will not reach such people,
nor will sobject Lessons" My opinion
OF 10 female sex Il that nothing will
drag them down, unless 1t be sssocia.
Ition with men, who have assumed to
rule the race. But woman has had
tho s.dead wood" on her partner, II
she had chosen to take advantage OF It
at any time since in Adams fall,
whom We sinned all.
4 prominent member Of one OF tho
influential women's~ clubs recently
resd an essay on the ssEvolution Of the
Fathsr!!!" This may bs . straw to
show the trend OF women's thought.
Her essay was highly spoken Of BY the
city papers.
Eugene ". Debs lectured At Turner'S
ball, Z few evenings since, on the gen.
sral situation in this country, and he
expressed himself strongly in favor Of
equal suffrage, remarking, BY way Of
argument, that "Every great man had
. great and noble mother lin fact. it
had boon said that . great man must
have = great mother, but any old thing
would do fora father!" He looked to
woman to purify politics, etc. II 10
~unnecessary to say that . Colorado
audience gives Dsbs . fne reception.
Some people In this state talk Of
female suffrage being = failure. These
are those who have been defeated or
are failures in politics. Ex.Gosernor
Waite has pronounced equal suffrage
failure. He ran for governor In the
recent campaign; but when the votes
were counted, he was Dol even At the
head Of the s.scattsring;" and ! will
venture the assertion that most Of the
votes cast for him came from the wo
men. Now, some would say: "This
10 . strong argument against female
suffrage"
The average populist has 1t In for
the women, blaming them with ere
deeming" the state, which to . repub-
ucan means. redeeming it from pop
uIist misruls. It Is true that whsr the
republicans came into power, two
years ago, the women took . prominent
part In the Qualification" which /
hsve written with q big ~" and
while tho men were taking something
stroager, the women took tea In their
parlors and club rooms. But the de-
fsated party people, some Of them, say
the women took their tea very strong,
or ven stronger!
Now, Mr.. Editor, don't you believe
. word Of this! You know the women
are uncertain, coy and hard to please,
etc., and ~ express . great deal Of
exuberance, over slight matter.
They do not need outside shnulants.
.bsyond the buoyancy Of their own
spirits, IS We men do, and this 10 why
they are m,nistering angels-to us-
and all that.
And it did an old female suffragist
good, the other day, in visiting the
oapitol.t to sec quitsa number of women
among the lawmakers. How much
more hopeful I would feel. that our
New Mexico legislature would do some
Thing for the Territory. il there were .
sprinxling OF women in the legislative
body, and New Mexico has, We know,
female talent. fully equal to some, if
not oil, who aspire to the highest posi-
ton in the gift Of the Territory, or
state, when she becomes one.
This il not written to boom any
woman for any Office, but, rather, to
assist in starting tho boom for the rex.
which will keep itself going, once
starteds and have it well underway.
when No knock At tho door OF Uncle
Sam for admission into the sistsrhood
Of states; and to bein line with our sister
states ia the west, We must have female
suffrage in u constituticn.
fully appreciate that there are not
near enough Offices to 70 around.
among the aspirAnts. and the mere
mention Of equal suffrage to both sexss,
whiuh Of course includes equsl oppor
tnpiN to hold Office, will increase the
list OF aspirants, and create Jealousy
among those already aspiring who are