Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-19

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he had gathered about suffrage and
j sulfragists In New York. His article
/ was marked by reckless inaccurncy.
He described Mrs. Matilda Josslyn
Gage as a determined spinster. He
4 said that Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch
put both her two daughters through
/ Cornell University. Ono took n course
in civil engineering. the other n course
in blacksmithing.' Mrs. Batch has
! only one daughter. He said TINT III.
! National Suffrage Association had
( moved its headquarters to New Horh
| City eighteen months before--hc
should have said five months--,nd had
/ made Mrs. Q. II. r. Belmont It's Hon
| orary President. The Association has
! no Honorary President. and AT the
time OF Mr.. Barry's writing. Mrs. Bel
mont held no office III II whatever. She
1 has since become n member of its Adj
I yisory Committee. These are only a
| few OF the migrant errors OF fact that
! Mr.. Barry committed"
In the same article we are assured
| that MIR. Barry had forfeited all right
| to be believed upon his bare word be-
fore bei'went West" and that when lls
was in Denver his utterances on the
suffrage question called out ridiculc
even from persons who were not ardent
suffrag ists. The Denver Post, so We ars
told devoted a page to rebuttins his
! remarks, and summed up its opinion
OF his statements by saying. This Is
the talk of a fool
How indifferent that writer Is to
fact Is set forth in the following:
Mr. Earry's inaccurracy shows IL
self at once to any experienced suftra-
gIst reading his article. Thus he says
that Colorado adopted woman suffrage
In 1891; Ii was In 1899. He says Utah
got it in 1895; Il was in 1896. He says.
The Juvenile court in Boston antedated
tile one in Denver. The act csthblish-
ing the Boston Juvcnile court was APP
proved June Is. 1906, and its first scs-
sion was held Sept. /. 1905. The Denver
Juvenile court had been established
years before"
One more illustration of his contempt
for truth may be quoted, In his article
IN the Ladies' Home Journal he says
that Judge Lindsey asked the last Colo
RADIO Legislature 10 pass seven bills re-
lating to the Juvenile court, one vital.
three others important and three of
small Importance. and that he got IL
| N'liuli 'al'i'ibNi " lht
lMrs. Alma V. Laiferty Of the House,
to Introduce them all. Only the unim-
portnnt bills got through and the others
were pigeonholcd, Mr.. Barry says, be-
cause they were not presented by some
sensible man. This on the authority OF
an old state Senator" What is the
truth? Mrs. Alma V. Lafforty writes to
80, t.,
"Will you allow me space to correct
the record, in part ut least. in the story
written by Mr.. Barry, as II appears in
q recent Ladies' Home Journal? Mr..
Barry, in pursuance of his contract to
discredit the women Of Colorado, has
consistently ignored the facts and rec
ord9 In formulating his statements.
many of which are absolutely false, as
shown by the records.
"Of the seven bills relating to the
Juvenile court. four only were intro
duced by MYSELF, viz. Nos. -. %. 96 and
81. House bill No a was. according to
Lindsey, the most important of all.
They were all passed In the house, and
"a, 50 and % passed the Senate. and are
now on the statute books Of the state.
House bill rs passed the House with Il
slight amendment, which was submit
ted to Lindsey and to which he con-
scntcd, saying it would not materially
ana wssSrtiefrSd tdsthS judiciary com
mittee, Of which Senator FULLY Scott
was chairman. 1t was never reported
out.
Il make 1t a rule not to notice per-
sonal attacks; but Mt this point | might
allude to the statement put in the
mouth of the 'old Senator that, IL
some sensible man had introduced these
bills. they would have passed, etc, and
remark, incidentally. that the woman
member has more bills to her credit.
enacted into law. than any other mem
bcr in either House or Senate. or the
three other bills comprising the seven
Lindsey paramounts.' House bill 165,
Regulating Dance Halls and For Pro-
lection of Young Girls,' and House bill
1856 10 Amend an Act Concerning De-
linquent Children, were introduced by
Mr.. Foley. were passed by the House.
AMI We're laid to rest along with No. 90
in Senator SCOTS committee
Mr. Foley Is to be commended for
his work In getting the two bills
through the House, and no blame can
attach to him for their death in the
Senate. House bill 3i3. which completes
the list. was introduced by Mr., Weiser,
passed both houses and became 81 law,
all of which Is shown by the records.
"'rhe verdict of high minded men
and women in this State on the attempt
of Mr.. Barry to dscredit and ridicuie
the women of Colorado will be. 1T is q
jokc!' and on the dcplorahlo fact that
any writer would 80 stultify himself
and prostitute his talents for revenue
only, 1T is shame!'
This is sufficient to discredit Mr.. Bar
| ry as q witness IN any case he may
| claim to have investigated. His anti
| mormon" articles are no more accur-