Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-19

| Which has stood the test thus tar OF ao-
vancing demand for extreme service, while
Chase ordered the open door. A fierce fight
ensued and efforts to reverse the decision
were made again and again. Nightcaps
were sent for months, with the contempt
uous epithet OF grandmother" attached
while vicious letters from idle camp fol-
lowers threatened DIRE vengeance on the
group. But out OF the revolution initiated
by this trio Of noble souls there comes to
our vast Industrial beehlves today the
conservation Of thousands Of women to
honorable and remunerative employment
In added and important divisions, for this
initial step set wide the gates ajar for
limitless expanse of Industrial opportun-
lty to woman. Like unto the great Corliss
engine at the Columbian exposition, with
the dynamic force of its concealed yet
mighty revolutionary swing of intricate
machinery, 1t awoke to life that vast en-
campment in pulsating throbs of illimitable
possibilities. Peace to their ashes. Sweet
memories to their souls.
Mans Moral Responsibility.
In the summing up Of the march of
civilization man has demonstrated that he
is not only a sharer with woman in moral
responsibility at home and abroad, but as
a composite unit in legislation is not a
weakling citizen or a vicious compound.
The preachment so continuously INDUCED
in by the moral reformer, of unerrlng good
ness in the feminine, while the masculine
Is unfaiingly plcketed as concentrated bad
ness. cannot but result in Antagonsms pro-
ductive of serious injury to the spiritual
and mental development Of the race.
A female Don Qulxote abroad alone, with
javelin and crossbow in regeneration of the
world, cuts as unsuccessful figure did
the doughty Spanish cavalier. who rode
iiercely to uncover the hidden Toe and found
but gathering windmill
The virtues do not descend in a straight
line to Mother Eve or the vices inhere in
unbroken lengths to Father Adam. Nature
Is an unerring accountant. She gives TO
the daughter the characteristics OF the
father and to the son the attributes of the
mother, while in final adjustment of the
balance she crossbreeds the good and the
evil, in like measure to both, while always
preserving the types.
In the general average there are just as
many good women as good men, and no
more; and by good" l point the scale OF
estimate by the great Master that tor a
good man one would dare to die"
A speaker before the National League OF
Civic Education of Women, in recent ses-
sion in New York, stated that Equal SUI
, frage results in the four states where it
exists indicate the ability of the corrupt
machine TO influence the female vote rather
e than any ability on the part of woman to
purify politics"
| WOmen's First Vote In Colorado.
I OF my own observation, ! can bear con-
z elusive testimony as 10 its truth, in one al
i least l was an eye witness of woman's
first vote in Colorado in 1894, arriving in
June, and remaining until after November
1 Through five months of hard experience,
= Travelled over the highways and byways
s taxing railway, stagecoach, private con
e veyance, and through little burro pathways
: in search OF the truth.
n a corrupt political machine was instl
n tuted by predatory wealth, both native and
= foreign, whose aim was the overthrow Of
e Governor Waite, the miners friend, ant
,, protector of the mineral lands of the PEG
L pie. Two Of the most conscenceless poll
o ticlans in the nation were placed in charge
O who called to their aid, to corral the WON
ans vote, a noted prohibition leader
lreputed next to Frances Willard in powe
q and pathos Of debate and speech Seldom
=, has there been such an open exhibition o
n graft and unlimited use of money.
IL Hundreds of thousands of dollars wer
g expended in flattery of woman on her veal
II points of social prestige and love of display
a while the wives of the laboring classe
II were cajoled in clubs organized Of extrava
. giant outlay, into the belief that the patron
d age OF the smelter owners wives compen
= stated for the vote which meant continue
10 yoke for the husband, or. IL rebellion wa
n shown, out of job for the man and GU
v In the streets for her family.
p Game of Social FIattery.
10 The Brown Palace hotel in Denver
ID huge hosiery with immense rotunda, wa
g dIaped in flags. flowers and bunting from
floor to dome, and here receptions wer
v, held. chaperoned by the feminine million
!" aire and the recreant prohibition leader
IN with all the accessories of music, refresh
in ments and sumptuous outlay, which com
1f pose the sum total Of societys gllttern
l. equipment, and hither the susceptible
L. woman was rushed to the sacrificial ALTA
of laying the flattering JUNCTION to her sol
* that she was on the top round of the soci5
of ladder.
IN 1t was estimated that sufficient none
s. was wasted in these OUTLAWS to have pre-
m vided the poor of the city with food, she
IN ter and clothing for one whole year. TIL
e, Broadway theater, another of the luxuriou
as and expensive buildings, was rented for tn
+ entire campaign and as extravaganuy deco
I'd rated for club professions and speeches
as Here the wives OF the laboring men wen
H. maj ched TO the front, gorgeous with sashe
d. golden-fringed badges and sllken banner
C. while in the boxes sat the wealthy patrons
he unctuous of manner, bewildering in jewe
he and laces, while over all the music an
c. speeches led the subjugated voter ava
ce from the issues at stake and bound her
in the chariot wheel Of the oppressor a liz
ed debasement of the ballot was perpetrate
all through the hills and valleys Of II
STATE which entered the union as the Gel
ea tennial star which marked the Tooth ann
n. versary of the birth of libery.
Ia AT the close of the campaign Governt
he Waite, a clean, high-mlnded, honest ar
H. incorruptible statesman who, with the eS
an of Lincoln, saw the needs of the haple
N and lowly, who had closed the gamblir
his dens and houses Of disrepute, compell'
er the saloons to obey the law, enfranchst
,Ht woman, and was steadily throwing II
20 aegis of protection In legislative enactme
,ss around both miner and mineral lands al
Or saving them from the grasp OF the invade