The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-03-03

: ain ARGUMENT AGAINgT
: WOFlAN SUFFRAGE

{ munlties. Colorado by the census
e 1890 had less inhabitants in the who
state than the City of Baltimore;
the last estimate, made by its governo
: 1t had just about 5000 inhabitants mon
than Baltimore, which is not much c
a margin. Wyoming's total populatio
IS less than the foreign population @
Maryland, and Maryland is not a Ian
OF immigrants by any means. Tn
population of Idaho is far below tn
number of colored people in Maryland
Utah (where the admission of womel
to the suffrage can hardly be said, il
view of recent events, to have elevated
the character of the candidates. has
les1 population than there are negroe:
in Arkansas anG altogether the foul
states that have equal suffrage all put
together have fewer people in them
G0O'CC0 fewer) than Chicago, and not
half as many az New York City. Gen
tlemen, results from such states even
if they were conclusive and positive
would still be minority results.
! But even in those states the results
are negative. Colorado has no advance
in legislation to speak of, no purifica-
ton of politics, no Improvement of
municipal conditions, no raising of
working womens wages. no tokens of
the millennium dawn whatever. Utah
has sent Mr. Brigham Roberts here
but he has been returned with thanks,
through the efforts of the women with
out the ballot so that Utah's effort
to uplift the country goes for nothing
Wyoming has had equal suffrage for
thirty years, yet nothing important has
happened any more than in Idaho.
which has but just begun the expert
ment. Negative results such as these
speak powerfully against suffrage, to
our mind.
may be asked by what authority
[ speak for Colorado. I nave here let
tiers from Colorado men signed with |
their names and giving their opinion |
as to the negative or evil results of
suffrage in Colorado 1t may be said !
that you would prefer to hear from
the women, and l also have a Letter
from a Denver woman, who signs her
name to it and who shows up the same !
wis (Here the speaker read two let
-ers, one from an official of the Fire
and Police Board of Denver and one
rom Denver lawyer, which smoke
Of the failure of woman
suffrage to purify politics. advance the
auSe OF temperance, or remedy the
municipal corruption.) Both these let
ers particularly referred to the vote
the dlsreputable women as being the
My solid and result-producing wom-
vote in Denver politics. One of Y
nese letters was written by man /
no mad voted for woman's suffrage t
no still theoretically approved it. but t
'nSldered its practical working so far e
Sceedingly disastrous. The letter from, v
denver woman particularly empba-
Zed the extraordinary expense for y
irrlage hlre at recent Denver cleo u
ohs' amounting to $4,000 at a. recent s.
" election, and also said: He would q
bold man, indeed, who shouId ST
ann that the municipal affairs of the 81
" OF Denver are today in the hands IL
cleaner or more disinterested poIt- ="
'lans than before the days of woman III
ffrage" ma L as
IN conclusion, if you will excuse q -
rsonai detail, 1 wish to saw that ~ r.
woman in the United States moods al
vote L ought to be that woman. The -
l. S'slstS ask for the ballot in the az
me OF the self-suporting woman Id
10 must be bread-winner not on1v Id
herself, but often for others. tho, nc
1t Tor the property woman lie
o needs it on account of taxatior ye
mat she can save those nearest o,,5 le'
lrest TO her from the saloon: thew %
II Tor the club woman, because her. ni'
and interest in public sf- an
IS deserves it. And above ali tbe,, Wo
II LOT the poor downtrodden single
man, VINO has no one to look ont for 1t
OF take care of her interests wau TO
d freak OF coincidence, L hammer - IS
myseif single woman. cl,h car
ii'ii' temperance woman Though vIl'
prohibitionisD, a small pronert,, e
Ter ana seif-supporting woman tbes,
~ years. And yet, though 7 oneb+ 20
nave thus fivefold LONGING for .''o
rage have never yet been en- eit Jus
"a tnat could see where a vote 9 9ns
a heip me- If 1 felt that it would &C. g.
isht become a suffragist perbans 49,
do II IS L remain with the majority 1 1-.1
~ SEX and beg you to beliva tba. sd '
do not want tn yoto -, GIVE that and
AoilS' whose courage, whose devo- say
"liose intellect, whose determines -
lance we sincerely admire. is TRt
4 'neiess not backed by the women
, aI, but is leading a minority