Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-12-08
IS WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN
COLORADO A FAILURE?
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Father W. o. Ryan pastor OF ST.
Leo's church. Denver Colo whose rec
cent excavations %, woman suffrage
have created sensation u tha West
because of his wide acquaintance and
great popularity bias written for the
New York Herald ha foI.oWiug clean
cut reafIrmlt.1u of h.s Views.
TO say hlt female suffrage 100 COLI
orado has proved o. failure Is TO express
half TRUTH and failure. after all iH
but negative term Failures are of-
tentImes respectable Wt can tolerate
failures To things and persons.
Bot ths exercise of suffrage hy Woe
men Iu Colorado is np longer to.erahIe
it is an WmiNed cyil q horrlb,. ;ray-
esty on tha houes and expectations of
many of as; a Fmnkenstcin monster
we have raised which $50 must Stay Ur
&c Stays us. 10 is uiur.ug our homes
Il is ruln0gs 20 al that is becoming and
admirable iu many of our women
was one of .hs tha0rIzers who voted
for woman suffrage I imagined hnr
entrance into the political arena would
soften the combat and ciyilize the come
batauts that her participation in pole
ties would cleanse political ways that
the beetle-broUel ward heller. the sac
loon Keeper with q pull the purchaser
of fraudulent votes would pass away ds
darkness when the dayaprlng arises
believed that of course we should have
q higher class OF candidates for office.
or that surely only "a higher class could
succeed once woman suffrage obtained.
An these hopes are with the things
that were Politics Is the same ola
dirty game the candidates are OF the
same mixed caIibro. the ward heller
n0urshes the barkeeper with a pull is
not eXtinguIshed the repeater has SIN
his innings
What good has woman suffrage done2
Absolutely none And from experience
we find that Ii is Incapable OF good II
never can change the result OF any
election, for the daughter mother or
sister votes az her father, husband or
brother votes This Is the rule TO which
the exception is rare
In a large acquaintance, and believe
I know and speak 10 as many people
as any man In Denver | have met only
few exceptions 10 that rule. In one
case the woman voted from her family
tradition In the other the woman voted
against her husbands ideas be-
lieve, from natural perversity. And Il
Is well the rule works; did II not, God
help the divided homes.
see no good result from our eight
years OF woman suffrage. we have a
Sunday closing and midnight closing
law for saloons Surely here the woman
vote should tell Yet the fact IS that
most OF our saloons are open on Sum
day many are open all night. And
that abomlnaton the ladies' entrance
greets one everywhere IN Denver. WO-
men suffer more than men from the
gambling evil. Yet gambling Is open
and seemingly supported or at least
protected, by law In Denver
There 10 IN Denver, as In all large
cities, q "red light district. II the
painted woman were confined there. so
much the better for morality She
roams wide however, and everywhere
Is herded to the polls; the semi-drunk-
en- harlot votes beside the respectable
mother and sister
And the evil Of woman suffrage For
a month past hundreds OF women have
neglected their homes because Of their
interest in politics. Women's political
clubs under the name Bryan" or NC
Kinley"-and doubtless both these gem
temen would be far from desiring their
names to appear as an aegl5 for the
woman in polltics-female political
orators female political canvassng-
God pity U.S. we have known the bur
den and woe Of them all II Is our
experience that whore women have
Joined fortunes with a political party.
because OF their finer, more emotional
nature they have become the blindest
partisans, and by their emotions are
made absolutely destitute OF principle
IN things political.
Think OF II, q woman buying other
women 20 personate voters who had
moved. Two such authentic cases came
under my observation, and these wo-
men were otherwise reputed decent.
Al present things are bad enough,
but there is a deeper depth, when gem
orally women will enter into politics.
when the female canyasser and female
orator and female place-seeker win be
multiplied ! think we shall be saved
that lowest depth. My personal view IS
that men and women are shocked by
the exercise OF female suffrage, that
Colorado Is recovering the good sense
that distinguished her before the era
OF Waite and Populism, which brought
US, among other insanities, woman suf-
frage
With many, believe our women
should vote az school elections. that the
charities and correctional institutions
OF the State should be divorced from