The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-04-30

tor understand housekeeping than
men. Do they? Have women solved
the Servant Question:" What is tho
proverbial boarding house like, and
generally kept by women?
II is the most hopeless and unsuc-
cessful institution known In civilized
city life, and usually stunned by the
many; the next step Is the hotel, and
Immediately the housekeeping is done
by q man. The cook also Is a man,
the head walters are men, etc. When
il comes to municipal housekeeping,
we find city departments with whole
staff of men, with scientific and dis
cipllned direction and order, all be-
yopd the management of a woman,
Woman can take part In some of the
easier clasSlhcatlonS OF work, but ono
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 Suffraglsts look
into this truth the better, even IL
their conceit received a bold shock.
The AntlSuffraglsts pride Is in tho
non-partisan influence they can eXer-
ClB6. u DC ~ COublAlltthl vi q pOitSi'
clan Immediately limits the person
asking for a reform. etc., and ono
party or the other will claim the votes
for his own. The woman without the
yoto goes TO tho 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-
complished i'll this way, and the wo-
mans vote In Colorado can show moth
ing better.
Women in Colorado have not made
laws that regulate equal pay for equal
work,-as they arc not TO be found
on the statute books OF that State.
Miss Summers book on Equal Suf-
frage" Is absolute Suffrage authority,
and the title page reads:
"eoUAL SUFFRAGE"
The Results of an investigation in
Colorado Made for the Collegiate
Equal Suffrage League Of
New York State.
Miss Sumner says: Though It is
almost universally asserted in Colo
RADIO that women receive the same pay
rs men in public employment it is
evident that this Is true only as be-
tween very minutely classified POSI-
lions. BY overstepping the bounds
of q reasonable classification it may
be said that women receive equal
pay for equal work but. taking pub
| lie employment as whole, women re-
ceiye considerably lower remunera-
tion than men.
THAT as teachers, also, women re-
coiye lower salaries on the average
than men is shown by table XIX.
But the conclusion is inevitable
that, on tho whole, men teachers are
better paid In Colorado than women
teachers.
THE economic effect of equal suf.
frage during the dozen years of it's
existence in Colorado has evidently
been slight. The only clearly demon.
strable results, indeed. appear TO have
been the opening up to women OF few
new avenues OF employment, such as
| political canva5sing and elective of.
fees, their employment In somewhat
greater number as clerks and stenog
raphers In public offices. and the equal.
i2ing 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 eXeTted over
the public employment of women. II
would be surprising il the enfranchise
ment colld be shown to haye 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 oi
demand and supply In the commercial
world"
] Will add only line about two o.
the Suffrage States.
A letter just received from Denver
tells its own story, and enlishtens uS
the ballot 10 women in Colorado ha!
mad It's effect:
Denver, Col, Feb. ., 1910.
Dear Madam
The records show that more thar
so per cent OF the registered voters o
Denver arc women. This being un
deDlably true, does It not seem NOR,
the part OF wisdom than yalor tha
bunch OF cheap politicians like Gov
ernor Shafroth, Justice Steele, Edito
Patterson, should rush yaliantly to the
|, protection OF this mass of voters
whenever the occasion offers?