The courier., 1902-05-03
A Rash Jvdgs

about the woman vote OF Colorado
that the facts and figures I'm the case
do not warrant Judge Haliett said
that the women of Denver had incurred
the enmity of a large class OF poiiti-
clans. True: but IL patriots were ever
loved for the enemies they have made.
then the women OF Denver deserve our
affection. The Denver correlevant Of
Bath-house John who. with his assist
ants has made the municipal corrup-
ton OF Denver notorious. says that
woman suffrage Is failure in Colo
RADIO. He says II should be abolished.
that women are only loosely attached
to party and temperamentaliy opposed
to "a boss and that they scratch tickets
inexcusably. Scratching In the worst
form OF heresy In n boss's eyes. Per-
sisted In II ruins discipline and party
organization. The testimony of the
men who make their living by electing
someone else to Office Is not good evil
dence. therefore. OF the benefits or evils
of woman suffrage In Colorado.
Judge Hallett announced that the ed
ucated women of Denver have ceased
to take any interest In municipal aues-
tions and no longer go to the polls. The
records show that the woman's vote In
the better portions of the city Is much
larger than In the poorer districts. In
the last city election $4,000 women and
A l.s.
$4,000 low-class and illiterate women In
Denver. Yet there must be. IL Judge
Hallett's reputation for veracity comes
out Of this encounter alive.
Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker Is of the
opinion, when consulted by a reporter
concerning what Judge Hallett had
said, that women did not want suf-
frage for what they were going to do
with 1t, but simply as a matter OF JUS
tice. As to his contention that suffrage
has not accomplished anything In Col
oradO. We could do enough IL there
were no men voters in Colorado. Give
US woman suffrage (exclusively) and
We would show him and all other skep-
tics what We could do.
All the prominent women whom the
reporter consulted intimated that
Judge Hallett's statement that the best
women of Denver did not vote was un-
qualifiedly false.
Judge Hallett's remarks resemble the
statement made at a recent meeting Of
the Round Table club of this city by
clergyman. Clergymen are In the habit
of occupying the whole pulpit and all
the attention of several hundred peo-
pie at once. They can say what they
like and no one dares to call them
down. They make statements with
out fear Of interruption that take your
breath away and that you know abso-
lutely can not be proven. On the
Round Table occasion the clergyman
said: There are a thousand statutes
that are a dead letter on the statute
books" One Of the members who has
no reverence for any human institu-
ton said: Let nine hundred and
ninety-nine dead-letter laws go. Can
you name one that is a dead letter."
OF course the clergyman, not being
used to impertinent Interruptions. and
never having been called upon before
in the presence Of twelve unconvinced
men to prove a statement, was ratified.
and could not remember one out of a
thousand statutes which was not en-
forced He said there were a thousand
but he could not remember one. Every
young clergyman ought to have a sea-
son in the Round Table as part of his
theological course The treatment to