The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-30


 men. Do they? Have women solved the Servant Question:" What is the proverbta1 boarding house like, and generally kept by women?
 It is the most hopeless and unsuc- cessful institution known in civilized city life, and usually summed by the many: the next step is the hotel, and immediately the housekeeping is done by a man. The cook also is man, the head walters are men, etc. When it comes to municipal housekeeping, we find city departments with whole staff of men, with scientific and dis cip1ined direction and order, all be- yond the management of 8 woman. Woman can take part in some of the easier c1assifcations of work, but one in fifty thousand is not equal to men in all the larger and more complicated routine life of city government. The sooner some of the Sunragtsts look into this truth the better, even if their conceit received a bold shock. The Antf-Suffragist's pride is in the non-partisan influence they can exer- else. To be a constituent of poIiti- clan immediately limits the person asking for reform, etc, and one for his own. The woman without the vote goes to the power-that-be for the cause itself, and promises to ask no favors or conditions. Nearly all of the reforms and good that women can claim they have done have been ac- comp1ished in this way, and the wo- mans vote in Colorado can show noth- ing better.
 Women in Colorado have not made laws that regulate equal pay for equal work,-as they are not to be found on the statute books of that State. Miss Summers book on "Equa1 Suf- frage'' is absolute Suffrage authority, and the title page reads:
 "EoUAL sUFFRAeE.v
 The Results of an Investigation Tn
 Colorado Made for the Collegiate
 Equal Suffrage League of
 New York State.
 Miss Sumner says: Though it is almost universally asserted in Colo rado that women receive the same pay as men in public employment, it is evident that this is true only as be- tween very minutely classified posi- tions. By overstepping the bounds of a reasonable classification it may be said that women receive equal pay for equal work but, taking pulp lie employment as a whole, women re- ceive considerably lower remunera- ton than men.
 That as teachers, also, women re- ceive lower salaries on the average than men is shown by table XIX
 fBut the conclusion is inevitable that, on the whole, men teachers are better paid in Colorado than women teachers.
 "The economic effect of equal suf- nage during the dozen years of it's existence in Colorado has evidently been slight. The only clearly demon strabIe results, indeed, appear to have been the opening up to women of 8 few new avenues of employment, such as political canvass1ng and elective of f7enQ ff1aiTs m ao+ greater number as clerks and stenog- raphers in public offices, and the equal fzing in most public positions of their salaries with those of men doing the same work. But the positions are graded, the men are given the best paid places. The average wages, even of women teachers, are still decidedly lower than those of men teachers.
 Considering the slight influence which equal suffrage can be clearly demonstrated to have exerted over the public employment of women. 1t would be surprising if the enfranchise- ment could be shown to have had any marked effect on their employment in private industry. As one woman said, in answer to the question in regard to the effect of equal suffrage on the wages and conditions of employment of women, Tt is the same old story of demand and supply in the commercial world"
 will add only line about two of the Suffrage States.
 A letter just received from Denver , tells it's own story, and en1ightens us in the East as to how the granting of the ballot to women in Colorado has had it's effect:
 Denver, Col, Feb. g, 1910. Dear Madam :-
 The records show that more than 50 per cent of the registered voters of Denver are women. This being, un- deniab1y true, does it not seem more the part of wisdom than vaIor that a bunch of cheap politicians like Gov ernor Shafroth, Justice Steele, Editor Patterson, should rush valiantly to the protection of this mass of voters whenever the occasion offers? YeIon tha golltY and rfenmatic trn11-