The herald., 1897-02-10
For Woman SUFFRAGE

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The Denver News, speaking from ex-
perience with equal suffrage in the state,
says, in part:
"As matter of fact. women will never
vote unanimously upon one side of any
question, any more than men will. They
will be divided in opinion, like any other
class OF citizens. They will be affected
by all the causes that affect the opinions
of any voter. They must secure their
information on economic and political
questions through the same sources, the
rostrum and the press. The marked
benefit of equal suffrage is that women
are melted to secure this information.
There is no political meeting in Colorado
in which at least half the audience, and
sometimes more, is not composed of
women. Women have discussed the is
sues of the past campaign with as much
intelligence as the Older voters. Some
great political leaders there are in Col
orado who have made the financial ques-
tion the study of a lifetime, who arc
better informed upon it than any others.
But considering the average voters, the
women will be found as well Informed as
the men. The same is true of local
questions. Women are as much inter-
ested in the Denver charter, and in every
species of beneficial legislation in the
state as the men-perhaps more SO on an
average. An increasing influence goes
out from the women in their clubs and
their homes, calling for good legislation
and good government. The increase in
the intelligence of the women of the state
in regard to all these subjects, since they
received the ballot, has been simply as
tonishing.
Suffrage IN Colorado has come 10
stay. The women of the state cast
fuller vote on last election day than oil
any previous one. There has never
been any question iii Colorado as 10 TIE
fact that the women voted in as large
proportion as the men and sometimes
larger. There doubtless are some women
who do not value the ballot, or use it.
just as there are some men. But the
Great body Of women in the state value
the right Of suffrage, and would resent
any attempt to take it away from them
sufficiently to warn unluclly politicians
frCm the experiment. There is no doubt
that some women have become discour-
aged in their attempts to secure reform,
and have said that equal suffrage could
achieve nothing. They did not realize
what they had attempted when they
began. That is common feeling ut
times with every one who engages in
reform work. There are not wanting
those who say THAT representative gov
ernment itself is a failure. And there
We're not wanting threats in New York
curing IIt ldSl CdlupalSlH ludl IL liIS
election went against the desire of that
section of the country, representative
government, as typified i'll that election,
would be overthrown. But there are no
arguments against equal suffrage which
do not obtain with equal force against
any suffrage at all
The Herald Salt Lake City, Utah,
says:
"The great objection to woman suf1-
Il, and nnth alCe n
half of the families of the land it is tie
wife who really administers the income
of the family and makes it go much
farther than the husband possibly could.
Few married men take any important
step without consulting their wives and
getting their opinion and judgment
Why shouldn't their opinion and judg-
ment be sought on public matters? 1t
would be absolutely impossible fer
women to follow political leaders more
blindly than men do Herein they will
perhaps always be the superiors of the
men,"
The Denver Republican considers the
large liberty given women as mark of
high civilizations:
"Follow the path which leads from
England toward the west, and it will
be found that it is an ascent toward
higher ideas of women and q larger lib
erty for them, both personally and in
respect to their property rights Thus
we see that in these particulars the
United States as a whole stands on
higher plane than Great Britain. But
the path does not cease to ascend when
it strikes the American shore. It's
course is still upward as we'll as wes5-
ward In the middle west there is, in
respect of property rights greater lib
erty for women than in the Atlantic
states In Colorado married woman
has absolute control of her own proper
ty, If not of her husbands also. Wo-
men can ask no more Of the law Of
Colorado than they have received, for
there is nothing more to give, If equality
is to be maintained"