Amador ledger., 1910-11-11
What Voting Women
Have Done.


where full and equal suffrage is a
fact. This investigation was the
work of an unprejudiced man who
paid as little attention as possible to
personal opinions, and depended as
much as he could upon facts as set
forth by statistics and statutes. The
result isn't creditable to the voting
women.
In the four states named, equal suff-
rage is no experiment. In Wyoming,
women have voted for torty-one
years; in Colorado, for 16 years; in
Utah for Is years, and in Wyoming
for ID years. The results of Mr.
Barry's investigation shows that they
have failed to keep the promises OF
the suffragettes; feminine influence in
politics would mean better wages and
better hours for working women,
great reform in child labor laws, de-
cided decrease in divorces, and posi-
tive regulation of the social evil.
The investigator found that Okla
homa, where the women do not vote,
has admittedly the best child labor
law, and that it was modelled after the
best features of similar laws for New
York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Wisconsin
and Nebraska, and that nothing was
borrowed from states where women
vote. While many states where men
do the voting have provided against
child labor during school hours, the
states of Utah and Wyoming make
restrictions of child labor apply only to
work in the mines. In Colorado, the
question of child labor has not even
been discussed by the women's poll
tical organizations.
The criers of equal suffrage have
pointed to Judge Ben Lindsey's Juve-
nj court in Denver as an achieve
ment of votes by women, but the
Investigator found that similar courts
in Boston and Chicago antedated the
Denver tribunal and that fifteen
states where men only vote, have
similar courts. 1t is also admitted in
Denver that juvenile crime is on the
increase, despite this court.
The laws regulating the hours that
woman shall work have failed of pas
sage in the equal suffrage states,
while several states where men do the
voting, have secured the passage Of
such laws.
AS to the elimination of the socia
evil, quotation from the president o.
the Florence Grittenton home for way
ward girls, indicates how it hasn't
been accomplished by the women. She
says: In all the seventy eight Florence
Grittenton homes in the United States,
| never saw such a collection Of
young, innocent girls of the better
class as there are in the Denver home
There are fifty eight girls there, mos
of them still in their teens. The
number of illegitimate births among
young girls is increasing at an alarm
ing rate. So-called free love- is aIsC
alarmingly on the increase. Denver
. and Salt Lake City are among the few
remaining large cities where an open
segregated district is given over to th'
public practice nf the social vice under
police protection.
, Divorces have shown a steady in
crease in the states where the woman
in politics was to make them few.
is as easy to obtain divorce in Colo
RADIO as in Nevada, with the exception
that year residence is required, in
stead of six months. There have beer
no marked improvement in the mar
riage laws, which was another advan
tage promised by the suffragettes
Other states, where the men do the
voting, have passed such laws, as wei
as laws tending to decrease the number
of divorces.
Higher wages for women. another Of
hne pledSduC PIOLhlSSni nave diSN ldlAeI
to materialize. there being the same
disparity of wages in the equal suffrage
states as in others.
Women may be better than men, bui
they do not seem to be in politics.
Mr. Barry was in Denver at the time Of
the recent election to determine
whether the city should be wet or dry.
He found that women workers were
purchased in as dissolute a manner as
any ward heeler of Tammany. Denver
went wet, and it is said there is nc
city in the country where women drink
more than in Denver. Mr. Barry also
learned in Denver that the women not