The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-15

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ice Stone. BIZ cllwell-o NEE
hes roposed statehood bill specci=
sex as a political disability ~
Be pfopert5 ranked With illiteracy,
lily, lunacyS and crime. THIS
sIiTectly INSULTING to the women Of
Arfzona; Oklahoma, Indian Territory
go ana lew eAico. and indirectly IN
a be women of the ma
nen ouId rotest:
Because it is fair and right that
iose VIII must obey the laws should
voice I'M making them. and
that hose who must pay taxes should
nave vote as to the size of the tax
and the shall be spent.
Because the moral, educational
and humane Legislation desired by
women would be got more easily il
women had votes. New York women
have worked in vain for years TO Sc
cure al legislative appropriation 10
found a@State Industrial School for
Colorado women worked in
vain forEone till they got the ballot;
then the Legislature promptly grant
edzit
Because laws unjust to women
would be amended more quickly. It
cost achusetts women 55 years
5sofs effort to secure the law making
mothers equal guardians of their chill
dren with the fathers. In Colorado,
after women were enfranchised, the
yerysnextSle legislature granted it. After
more than half a century of agitation
women for this reform, only IL
ont our q S States now give equal
to mothers
Because Acknowledgement helps
To Keep wages down. Hon. Carroll D.
1ational Commissioner of La
sBor said i'm an address delivered al
zSmtt College, on February %, 1902:
500 he lack of direct political influence
Cons titutes a powerful reason WIZ
women rs wages have been kept at a
mini unl.,'
54s4 Because equal suffrage would III
crease the proportion of educated
voters. The high schools of every
State in the Union are graduating
more girls than boys-often twice CT
three tines as many report of Com
missioner of Education).
Because it would increase the
proportion of native-born voters. In
the three years from June 80, 1900,
JuneSS0 Il 9O3, there landed in the
Efted States 1,S44,G22 foreign men.
s9onl SCI foreign women. (Report
ofS Commissioner General OF Immigra
Because it would increase the
moral and law-abfding vote very
#sn1uc Oh. While increasing the vicious
and criminal vote very little. The
Census of 1900" t%the figures
SSfr rom the@census of 1900 are not yet
tabulateD gives the statistics Of men
andsWomen in State prisons of the DIFF
ferent States. omitting fractions,
are$a as follows:
IN the District Columbia. women
constitute IL per cent. of the prison
ers in Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, ia per cent; in New York, IS;
louisiana; II; in Virginia, IL: in
New Jersey, 10; in Pennsylvania and
Maryland g.; in Connecticut, s.; in
Alabama. New Hampshire, Ohio and
q South Carolina, Z; in Florida, Maine,
ssf Mississippi, New Mexico and Tennes
see, in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana,
Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, North
Carolina and West Virginia, 5; in Ar
kansas and Delaware, 4; in Califor-
mia and Minnesota, North Dakota,
Texas, and Vermont. g. in Colorado,
iowa Montana. Nebraska and Utah.
- in Arizona, Kansas, Nevada and
South Dakota, i: in Washington. four
ffths Of one per cent; in Oregon ami
wisconsin, Two ffths of one per cent;
Ssi IN Wyoming and Idaho, none.
asS{2 81 Because it leads to fair treatment
Of women in the public service. In
3Massachus the average pay of q
female teacher is about one-third that
n Of a male teacher, and in almost all
the States it is unequal. In Wyoming
and Utah, the law provides that they
shall receive equal pay for equal
work: CRevised Statutes of Wyo,
ming, Section GA; Revised Statutes
VI of Utah, Section 1851
tTSaco,1Sa ieoic1ation for- tI1ca prn