The Falls City tribune., 1910-06-03
How Equal Suffrage Has Helped



they at onee banded together and
secured the following laws:
4 curfew bell at 900 p. IN. to
keep children under fourteen years
off the streets.
A law that women teachers in the
public schools shall receive equal pay
with men for equal work, when hold
ing certificates of the same grade.
4 law raising the age OF protec-
ton for girls 10 eighteen years.
4 law making it a misdemeanor
for any minor under eighteen years
to buy. accept, or have in his pos
session cigarettes. tobacco, opium
or amy other narcotics.
\ law providing for the protection
OF dependent. neglected or ill-treated
boys under fourteen and girls under
sixteen and for the punishent of
persons responsible for their care.
who neglect or i~ll-treat them.
The women Of Utah have been
active in securing laws relating to
municipal house cleaning and free
public libraries in cities and towns.
In the places of trust they are pune
tual and faithful. The caucuses and
primary meetings are conducted with
due regard to decorum, the conyen-
tions are more deliberative, and the
kindly consideration which the
American MAJ has always shown to
woman has induced even the rougher
type to consider that political gather
ings in which women take part must
be conducted in a decent and orderly
manner. Here women have proved
themselves a reserve moral power.
The women of Idaho being en-
franchised the same year as the
women of Utah began to be active
in laying restrictions on all the pre-
dominating vices.
One particular feature of their
early activity is worthy of mention,
that occurred in the city of Caldwell.
Immediately after the possession of
their rights the women Of Idaho Sc.
cured of their Legislature a stringent
law against gambling. 1t was one
thing to get a law passed, and quite
another thing 10 enforce il. The
men who prospered through the vie
Tins in their gambling hells sent
up a mighty wall that their bread
was being taken out of their mouth
by the u%nprincipled and shortsighted
band of women. The women in the
city of Caldwell, foreseeing such a
situation. had secured the election
of a mayor sound ON moral questions,
and one oma as a member of the
council.
An ordinance prohibiting gambling
within the city limits was duly passed
and published and through the vigil
lance of the good marshal the pro-
fessional gamblers were reduced to
sore straits, and up went their cry,
Our living is gone The women
and especially the mothers were an
xious to have the ordinance retained
and enforced.
A secret meeting was held by the
women making arrangements to
have representatives from each ward
in the city and interview the council
men in regard to their wishes. But
the saloon men had by no means
fallen asleep, they prepared a mon
strous petition, signed by promi-
nent professional and business men
and We're ready to present it at the
next meeting of the city board.
The women caught wind of this and
hurridly held another meeting and
prepared a remonstrance. Arrange
ments were made to secure the
signature of every m voter in
the city, Alsa having been informed
that the saloon men had planned to
fill, with their friends, every avail
able seat in the council room, the
women We're on hand in great num-
bers long before the appointed time
for the meeting and as the doors
We're opened they filed in and occu-
pied all the spectators chairs before
their opponents arrived. The gamb-
ling men and their friends upon ar
rival finding themselves outwitted
by the women were forced to crowd
about the entrance. lust before the
meeting opened, the proprietor of the
largest saloon in the city entered and
handed the petition to the city clerk.
1t was worded in due legal form,
ending with the clause and we will
ever pray At the close of its
reading the eouncilwoman handed to
the clerk the remonstrance. In clear
excessive terms it demanded that
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