The Glenwood post., 1910-12-31
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
IS A FAILURE
So Says Mrs. Goddard, a Not
ed Colorado Club Woman
in ladies' Home Journal
SPEAKS FROM EXPERIENCE

Is woman suffrage failure in Colo
rado? Far be it from man, mere man,
to answer the question but no less
parsonage than Mrs. Francis w. God
dard, noted club woman of Colorado
Springs and president of the Colonial
Danes of Colorado, has declared in
positive terms that so far as woman
suffrage in Colorado is concerned it is
failure and farce.
Mrs. Goddard does not mince words
but over her own signature in the Jan
uary number of the Ladies' Home
Journal she states that the experiment
of giving the ballot to woman has
meant no good to either the state or
the gentle sex whose self appointed re-
presentatives once went about over the
state and glowingly prophesied the
wonderful reforms that would be ac
complshed-the great moral uplift that
would be brought about by woman if
she were but given the ballot.
The men took her at her word and
extended the franchise to woman and
in this Mrs. Goddard intimates that
the men made serious mistake and
that the experiment has been anything
but satisfactory In justice to the men
who by their ballots are responsible
for the present condition it must be
admitted that the men who voted for
equal suffrage did so under the mis-
taken belief that women-the great
majority of women actually eraved the
ballot whereas they have since learn
ed that great many and perhaps the
majority of the best women in Colorado
do not appreciate this wonderful boon
that has been so chivalrously given
them, that they do not now and never
did want to vote, that Since the law
has been passed they vote as IA duty
and not as a privilege, that the great
good that was promised and the ''pur
flying influence that we heard so
much about has not materialized not
so you can notice it, and that the wo-
men that they know and love, love too
much to want to make ward heelerS
of them, if they had their way would
Join with Mrs. Goddard in her efforts
to take the equal suffrage law off of
the Colorado statutes.
But here is part of Mrs. Goddard
story as told in the Home Journal:
I have voted since 1898: l have been
a delegate to the city and state con
ventions, and member of the Repub-
lican state committee from my county:
l have been a deputy sheriff and
watcher at the polls: for twenty three
years / have been in the midst of the
woman suffrage movement in Colorado.
For years / believed in woman suffrage
and have worked day in and day out
for it-I now see my mistake AMI
would abolish it tomorrow if l could.
No law has been put on the statute
book of Colorado for the benefit of
women and children that has been put
there by the women. The child labor
law went through independently of the
woman's vote. The hours of working
women have not been shortened; the
wages of school teachers have not been
raised: the type of men that got into
office has not improved a bit.
As for the effect of the vote on
women personally, l have known scores
of women who worked for the republi-
can party one year and worked for the
democratic party next year. telling me
frankly that GO the democrats gave us
more money!
Frankly, the experiment is failure.
1t has done Colorado no good: it has
done woman no good. The best thing
for both would be if tomorrow the bal
lot for women could be abolished.
MRS. FRANCIS w. GODDARD,
President of the Colonial Danes of
Colorado.