The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-24

was hoped. Here is what he says abont |
woman suffrage in Colorado:
Colorado is the significant state While |
males preponderate the preponderauor
Is comparatively small II has a large
commercial city; another a manufactur-
Ing center. while mining Is a large IN
dustry. II has n large population as
compared with the other suffrage States,
both actually and relatively To her area
There Is TO be found in at least two cities
the congestion OF population. which gives
rise To come Of tho most Troublesome
questions Of the day. 1t has led quito,
turbulent life. More than once has the
military been called out 10 preserve or
der. and many instances OF EVievous out
RACES have been recorded. Iutcmpernnce
and the social evil are abundant. what
under such circumstances has woman's
suffrage accomplished? This is ques-
tion more easily asked than answered,
Woman has not forced her way into poll
tics, though she has held some minor Of
fees and discharged their duties accept
ably. There is much talk Of sending ono
Of their leaders. cultivated and practical
woman, TO Congress at the next election
According 20 the best information l can
get her influence on political life has been
ing the nomination OF unworthy persons.
and demanding, as In the case OF Judge
yer. the election OF the best man. she
has not hesitated TO take her part in
school matters. and her inSistence mas
caused many imProyements In the ,,1i admin IN
formed everything, Intemperancc still
prevails and the social evil abounds. But
complIshed solely by legislation or in a
day. II tho tendency of her efforts Is
In the right direction Il IS all that can
he expected. To sum, It up. In word
The womans suffrage has not been hurt-
ful 1t has helped a little; perhaps more
than can easily be particularized'
After considering briefly the suffrage
movement in Europe, and the changed
position OF women before the law and
in society and business affairs, the
Justice concludes that female suffrage
will come, not fully and all at once,
but by varying steps, and he sees no
objection TO it, and no particular force
in the argument that ii will either de-
stroy or mar the American home. Con
tinung this discussion, the Justice
takes decidedly antagonistic position
against the large family idea so vo.
ciferously applauded by President
Roosevelt. lie thinks that
Woman. conscious OF her independence
and capacity to support herself, VIII de-
mand true manhood In her husband.
Children will come. However. the glory
OF the home Will not be in the number,
but I'm the quality OF the offspring. Race
suicide is not the worse ofenses Ihere
is wisdom in the fable of the hare and
the Iioness The former, boasting of her
litter, sneered at the latter for, her single
offspring. YES was the reply, put ne
is a lion" To load home with so many
children that the mother cannot give TO
each the full blessing OF n mothers care
and attention Is far worse than race sui
eide. Not crime, but mutual seli-denial
should and will. place reasonable limits
on the number OF the family group.
All of which must be admitted TO be
sound economies and frst-class social
ethics. Justice Brewer, in making tins
contribution to the current discussion
of this live question, has illuminated
the subject, and contributed what may
well be termed a fair judgment on
| the case