The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-03-14

OIduO 10 not want tie ballot. that the
majority of them have been negligent
and Indifferent to their civic duties
As an answer 10 that let me give Won
these figures: Forty-two per cent OF
the population of Colorado is female:
on an average 80 per cent of the to-
tai vote cast has been by women 4
some elections this has run "a nfss
as A per cent These figures Ara e
fetal and it would Strike me ttz-, o.
are tTife better as a o4sfs nnon
which TO found an opinion than 2 sna-
cal investigators ssssual visits to he
poIls- IL Woulc also seem like pretty
Soou etIoep -s-e that women OF oil class
Is 90 70 che polls,
an this talk about a woman be
CO. ing any hess womanly, any less
hOtherIy because she. casts a ballot is
all rot, A woman can go TO the polls
IN colorado with the same dignity.
ncdesty and comfort that sac can 20
tn butcher shop. She IS subjected
to none OF the jostiing, Tudehess and
indecency that she is forced TO under
go in New York's subway during most
hours of the day.
On election day my mother walks
around the corner to the poll and
votes With men, Both sac and | take
1t as matter of course
YES said the judge in answer to
q question, She votes as I do. And
m afraid that most women who have
husbands and fathers or sons FOLLOW
the political lead of their men folk.
speaking of my experience as 4 /
Judge in the county court reminds me |
ot-anOther thing that J should say IN /
Behalf OF women in politics. | have |
already said that, like men. they are |
willing to vote for the party. however |
Ubiquitous it may be, that buffers |
their bread: but | should add that in /
my eight years experience on the !
bench, during which time | have tried /
nearly all the election fraud cases in /
Denver, ballot box stUffing and OF |
lenses of that kind, / have rarely had 1
woman before me as the culprlt |
l used to say that wemen offenders |
in this variety of crime average about /
one in a hundred. Larger experience |
has made me decrease the average 20 |
one in a thousand.
Machines Corrupt.
4 shall also perhaps make a little |
2ddenda to what | said about the WO- |
men voters being willing TO stand for /
corruption. You see, the really have |
had no opportunity TO register their 1
disapproval Both machines are In /
the corrupt control Of the public-serv- |
are machine made, and there really /
isn't much choice for the voters On |
my way home I'm going % stop on At |
Albany and have a talk with Governor |
Hughes on the direct primary law ne /
is trying to push through in this |
state II Ee could have enacted in !
Colorado q law providing for direct |
nominations at the primaries and the /
Australian ballot law the voters would /
then have an opportunity TO express
their real sentiments.
What has been the total result ct
COlorade'S fourteen years of woman s
sUffrage?'
The result has not been impressive
Little, very little, has been accom-.
plfshed hat that little would nat h2Yo.
been accom- BlisHed without the Eom.
ems vote .,.s-.-. -.-.
DO you recommend it 20 the East?-
Il surely do. The east should ex-
tend the franchise to women as a mat
ter of justice, and the practice OF jug
tice is just as beneficial for a com
munitv as it is for an individual. Fur
thermore, it will help the women. But
don't let anyone believe that the
granting OF the outrage TO women will
help usher In The millennium the sore
suots in tie body polite will remain
just about as sore as they are today
/ like this talk of Judge Lindsey's. /
L is the kind that makes converts.
Plain statements based on common
sense and wide observation. Who
dreams that the millennium would como
with universal suffrage? Who SUI
poses that any class is perfect? II
they were another world would claim
them. and then-well. the Lord lsve
mercy on the poor nen.
Women are just what they are, bad,
good. better, best, and men are the
same.
Suffrage is not a gift TO the bad
Or the good. Neither IS it a gift Ut
al 1t is a born right When years
of discretion are reached il belongs
by right to you and 70 NE, |
We may forfeit this rig1t by erin
iral act, il is true, but no one :dn
forfeit it for us.
No one car deny it 10 Us.
To attempt to do so, is tyranny.
Taxation without representation =
a lingering remnant Of the dark ages.
Democracy is the voice OF the PEG
pie, all the people Crystallized - Il
government.
How long shall We ramein a half
democracy?
How long shall thoughtful. intelli-
gent studious. Iav-abidHg, tax-pav-
ine. patriotic citizens be classed with
babies. criminals, insane, idiots and
aliens?
Jungle Convenience.