The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-12-21

Of his vide Acquaintance and great
popularity. has written the following
clean-cut rezfHrmation Of his views:
To say that female suffrage in Col
orsdo has proved failure is to ex-
press a half truth. and failure. after
all. is but negative term Failures
are ofteutfnes respectable: re can
tolerate failures In things and per
sons
But the exercise Of suffrage oy
women in Colorado is no longer toler-
able: IL is an unmiKed evil. horrible
trzyesty on the hopes and expectations
OF many OF US: a Frankenstein mon
ster we have raised which we must
slay or il slays US II is inturing our
homes. IL is ruinous to all that is be-
coming and admirable in many OF our
women
4 was one OF the theorizers VINO
voted for woman suffrage. imagined
her entrance into the political arena
would soften the combat and civilike
the combatants: that her participation
In politics would cleanse political
ways; that the beetle-browed ward
heeler. the saloon keeper with pull,
the purchaser OF fraudulent votes.
would pass as darkness when the
dayspriug arises. I believed that OF
course we should have a higher class
OF candidates for office. or that surely
only a higher class could succeed once
woman suffrage obtained
All these hopes are with the things
that were. Politics is the same old
dirty game; the candidates are OF the
same mixed calibre: the ward heeler
aourishes: the barkeep with pull
is not extinguished: the repeater has
still his innings.
What good has woman suffrage
done? Absolutely none And from
experience we find that II is incapa-
BILE OF good. II never can change the
result OF any election, for the daugh-
ter. mother or sister votes as her
father. husband or brother votes This
is the rule to which the exception is
rare
In large acquaintance land be-
lieve | know and speak to as many
people as any man in Denver), have |
met only few exceptions TO that rule |
In one case the woman voted from |
her family tradition; in the others the |
women voted against their husbands
ideas. believe, from natural per-
versity. And IL is well the rule works. |
Did 1t not. God help the divided homes
Il 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 wo-
man vote should tell. Yet the fact is
that the most of our saloons are open /
on Sunday; many are open all night |
And that abonimation, "the ladies' en-
trance" greets one everywhere In
Denver. Women suffer more than
men from the gambling evil. Yet
is open and seemingly sup
ported. or at least protected. by law
in Denver
There is in Denver. as in all large
cities. a red light" district. II the
painted women were confined there,
so much the better for morality. She
roams wide. however. and everywhere
is herded 10 the polls; the semi
drunken harlot votes beside the re-
spectacle 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 "Bry-
an" or Mckinley doubtless
both these gentlemen would be far
from desiring their names to appear
as an aegis for the woman in politics
female political orators, female po.
litical canvassing-God pity us: we
have known the burden and woe of