The Glenwood post., 1909-10-30
NOTICE OF D1sCoNTINUANCE-
Saturday, October 80. 1909.
STEADY THERE, GIRLS

Female politicians and club women
are quite exercised over an attack on
woman suffrage, written by Denver
woman and appearing in the current
number of the Woman's Home Compan-
ion. Although the writer gives every
evidence of "speaking by the card, y
she does not sign the article and while
the article has created CONSERVATION IN
the ranks of the suffragettes, their prin
cipal efforts just now are toward dis
covering the identity of the writer.
Here is Just one of the roasts on the
female politician:
"When it comes to a real issue hi
man nature turns out to be pretty much
the same in women as in men, and the
woman political worker proves as re
sourceful, and, indeed, as interruptions
as her masculine fellow laborer.
"The woman precinct worker is often
employed to carry the male vote. She
is paid from So to $25 for her services
on election day-and she earns the
money. She is generally more enthusi-
astic and she gets better results than
a man. This especially true in the mat
ter of influencing the voters of the
'lower' wards. 1t is not an uncommon
mobile or hack in charge of woman
precinct worker loaded with white mcl
and black, en- route to a polling place
The worker has influenced them to for
sake their cards and beer in some low
groggery long enough to vote as she
dictates-at so much a vote
Now follows a talk with the Denver
"boss' of suffragettes, which the au-
thor prefaces by saying that the woman
is the brains of the democratic women
of the state of Colorado, that she is
known to very few politicians, that her
home life is quiet and unassuming and
that she does not see that equal suf
frage has purified politics in the least.
at was a decided mistake to give
women the right of the ballot. But
now that they have it, in my belief it
is as much the duty of a woman to ex'
ercise that right as it is for her to OBJ
serve her religious duties or to take
proper care of her home. The averag5
woman is better than the average man
At least that is my observation. Tho
average woman politician is as bad as
the average man politician-only she is
A. l. &c
would join in one concerted movemen;
to unseat both the professional man and
the professional woman politician, ther
the right of franchise vested in women
would prove a boon of inestimable val
ne. But the day will never come when
the women will take a united stand or
that proposition.
"Like many another woman, l enter
ed politics with the idea of purifying
the political atmosphere. Since then i;
has been a constant struggle on my
part to keep my skirts clean. 1t is
much the same thing as woman mar
rying a man to reform him."
The Post has no desire to mix in the
muddle which UP to the present time
seems to be confined to the ranks of
the fair sex but will simply say that ii
some of the methods of the female poll
tician and described in the article men
toned, and some other methods which
we have witnessed with our own eyes
in Denver and Glenwood are not enough
to disgust the true, noble and gentl5
woman with woman suffrage, that is the
effect upon the average man whose re
spect for women is so great that he
cannot enjoy seeing her degraded to
the level of the ordinary ward politi
clan. The Post has refrained from crit
ici~ing our state law on this subject
but we do not hesitate to say that the
time is soon coming when the champions
of suffrage mnst show some substantial
results along practical lines, and not at
the expense of these better and finer
and nobler virtues of womanhood, or
articles similar to that complained of
will be common.
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SOME THINGS MONEY WILL NOT
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