The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-30
S What WomanH las Done W1iththe Ballot;
The testimony Of Experts Is Recited

pertS is NeClueQ1
or Women's clubs: "rhe women OF.
iEthis state have always voted since the
Territorial days, and 1t will be hard TO
find anything they have not had + y
4 hand In Y. We have not a good law
4 that The women have not WORKED ror.'S
8,l'o this last may add that ! was
i talking this summer TO clergyman
4 who had been recently In Wyoming.
A He was not suffragist-that is, he
1 said he did not want TO force II on
1.-THE women. But lie was enthusiastic
over Wyoming. wyoming. lie saiu,
i E"SVyoming IS wonderful! Such splendld
4 women--such fine. chivairous men. ~ y ::
4 worth going far to see" Il am glad"
A said L ITO hear such praise OF Wyomr
ling. | am especially interested, be-
a cause YOU know, 1t is a suffrage state.
sIiNvyoming women have had the fran
5chise for forty years. am glad IT
+. hasn't hurt them why, no. ne said,
gI3"Its true; it hasn't--but then, they're
such splendid women
Your Just and apprecintive editorial
hin citing women who nave done Things
ll,begins with the General Fedefatlon OF
4 Women's Clubs. The club women as
|tiycly engaged in or sympathizins With
s|thts movement for political liberty are
! far too numerous Tor any detailed
i mention. There is an army OF them.
4 Listen to one, late president or the
l.Colorado State Federation Of Women's
IClubs: ar nm to tell you what q
federation OF Womens Clubs had been
liable to do in a free state where BACK
10. Influence is the ballot The ballot
Iis like a.key. The Colorado clup mems
lber is a woman with Keys ut her slr-iF-i
die. and with these keys she gains en- en-
strancc to prisons and places where de-
Electives are kept, and carries a sweet.
mess and light~and q better admins
Itration OF Justice. Instead OF woman's
Influence being lessened, 1t Is Neat-
lily increased.p
Those who Wear Suffrage Pin.
4 You speak of the women In strictly
religious organizations There Is an
army OF these, too. Some OF the de-
voutest women In the land wear the
4 suffrage pin. You speak OF womnn's
work for the blind There is blind
girl who walks by faith, not slgh.,
and who appeals and appeals FOR the
blind-Helen Keller. She says: II wish
| to vote because it is my duty and my
right"
| & You sneak OF the Consumers !
. :
| League-an organization to which
lifelong. Listen to Florence Kelly, or
1.-THE Consumers League. Never before
Tin the history of the human race have
lgchildren and young women formed as
they do to-day an important part OF
1.-THE working force of great Industrial
communities. Now the health NOR
ais and intelligence of the rising gent
Grafton are peculiarly objects of solicl-5 81
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an equal share of power to determine i
the laws for these young workers Is Y
| to give truelly unequal power to sordid Il
employers. This Is illustrated by the !,
twelve years efforttof the Consumers
League OF New York to obtain effective
enforcement of the mercantile employees
law. Agitation. petition, white lists
have all been used. Yet the law pass
ed In 1896 had not in 1905 been made
effective. If the Legislatures who,sl
year by year. have failed to give the Il
State Commissioner of Labor power to il
enforce this law had been forced to de- q
pend for their political career upon
the votes of women this enforcing bill
could never have been keut Indefinite
{ly hanging. 1t Is hard to believe Il
that such weary effort would be need a
ed If the mothers and the teachers {.
were part OF the voting constituency Il
upon whom judges and legislators de-
pend for their political career. And
Mrs. Maud Nathan. OF the same organi-
cation: "In the States where women
vote there is far better enforcement OF
the laws which protect working
girls. ..I also wish to call your at
tention to the fact that Colorado places
the age of consent at eighteen years.
In that State a girl cannot consent to
her ruin at an earlier age than to her
marriage. Another matter OF vast 4
Importance to wage earners is the edu-
cation OF their children. The enormous
number Of illiteratc children in our
great Industrial States is appalling.
IN Wyoming, where women have
l.voted for nearly half century, there
+ are fewer iliterate children than in /
any other State
You speak of the fight for proper
1 sewerage in New Orleans and Balti- /
more. Miss Kate Gordon. who was
most prominent In the struggle at New
| Orleans, is a vice-president Of the Ma
4 tlonal American Woman Suffrage AS
ISOLATION. You speak OF woman's strug-
/, gle against disease. A great nurse died
the other day-t1orence Nightingale.
4 She was suffra gist. DR.. Elizabeth /
Blackwell, DIR. Emily Blackwell-they 4
were suffragists. The number OF
NURSES VINO dI . III ILLS 1l6 III 1OI tlc
franchise is very large. The. head of
the Red Cross is a sufrragist Maud
Darlington Booths a sufrragist And the
woman who, the other day, I saw call
ed "the greatest woman In America
Jane Adams. Is a suffragist. She has
this to say: 1T is difrtcultt to see what
military prOwess has to do with the
r,ultiform duties Which, In a modern
city, include the care Of parks and
libraries. superintendent OF markets,
sewers ana bridges, the inspection OF
j provisions and boilers and the proper
! disposal of garbage 1t has nothing
Ito do with the building department..
which the city maintains that 1t may
see to 1t that the easements are dry,
] that the bedrooms are large enough to
afford the required cubic feet OF air,
\ that the plumbing is sanitary. that the
4 gas pipes doEnot leak, that the tene-
ment house court is large enough to
afford light and ventilation, that the
starways are fireproor. The ability
i to carry arms has nothing to do with
the health department maintained by
1.-THE city, which provides that children
4 are vaccinated, that contagious dis