Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-13

all saloons are prohibited outside OF IN
corporated cities. The license is $1,OOO.
which can be increased by the cities If
desired. There are no longer any road
side drinking places except where the Ii
cenSes have not expired, and. within the
next year. all will be wiped out and the
only drinking places in the state will be
found In the large settlements, where
they can beunder police supervision"
Proportion Of Voters.
What proportion of the women vote:
Just as large a percentage as the men,
and they take just as strong an interest
I'm politics. Instead OF discussing politi
cal questions around the saloons and
street corners men talk these matters
over In their own homes, and the nat
ural intuition OF women helps them out
greatly In arriving at correct concu-
sions. Women will jump at a thing
where men will reason and are sometimes
wrong,
II think 1t is absolutely useless to put
up man of questionable character
whose reputation for morality is not
good. We have had this illustrated hum
dreds OF times right in this city. Men
have been defeated for Office overwheim-
ingly by the women. The women do not
stick to party lines when ii comes 10 any
question of character or fitness for social
conditions. Ii Is great mistake not to
nave the women vote. because il they can
not vote more intelllgently than a lot of
the men who can hardly read and write
and who are little more inclined to So
ella istic conditions and so on, l cannot
understand the reason why.
women have large property holdings
ana they are naturally patriotic and come
as nearly getting to the true insight of
things as any other fact, and they are
always interested in matters that affect
the home or the child. and without grow
ing these children right we are never go
ing TO have sound country nation.
The women, with their influence, will
know better what is for the best inter-
ests or the child than men do and they
act up TO it. and particularly along all
social and educational lines"
States Greatest Need.
What does Wyoming need most?
What we need most is the farmers
or men who will build homes and turn up
the sod and grow crops, both under irri-
cation and by improved methods of sci
entific agriculture. better known as dry
farming. There is no question of the
soil; there is no question of the climate
there is no question of the market and
all the conditions for successful farming
exist And we have in this state such
wonderful resources OF coal and oil, iron
and copper and minerals: and all that
embraces to bring the farm and factory
together can come nearer being realized
in this state than in any spot on earth.
Resources Diversified.
There are more diversified resources
in Wyoming than in any other part of the
Union. and the farm adJoins the mine.
And there is no state that has such an
abundance of water power-water both for
power and irrigation purposes. We have
now 2,:OO.O0O acres of land for which irri-
CATION plants are being constructed, and,
estimating forty acres to the family, that
will furnish homes and farms for from
sixty to one hundred thousand families:
and we have water and land enough
for 100000 acres.
THE land under irrigation projects now
reaching completion is being sold at prices
angling from $50 to $50 per acre, ana
land is free and open to everybody