The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-03
SAYS WOMEN TOOK
DOODLE MONEY
Richard Barry Makes Bad Report
On Denver and Other Cities That
Have Equal Suffrage

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. WHAT
women have actually cone in the states
ia which they vote has been the sub
Ject OF investigation by the Ladies
Home Journal It's editor, though op
posed 10 suffrage, wished TO learn and
publish the exact truth about the en-
iranchised woman and her work, what
ever II might be To this end Richard
Barry was sent ~est, and there now
appears an impartial statement OF
facts and the actual truth. This
Barry has summoned up in the words
OF political manager who stands high
In Denver's political circles:
Woman suffrage Ia this state. says
the politician lis a joke when IL Is
not shame Highminded men *
more the woman voter. 10 low minded
men she is-well the less said the
better"
This is in part what Barry says.
when | was in Denver one of the
lpapers undertook the expose OF re-
voting child labor condition near the
city. An election was in progress
Exery man in Office pooh poohed IT,
aud the voting women in Denver did
not even investigate TO see whether II
was true or not. In February, when
public, the women were engaged In
factiona fght-membcrs fought with
their fists, women who had false hair
lost Il, and one woman lost a handful
OF real hair.
Conditions Far From Ideal.
Il could not understand this lax con.
dition and / asked Ben Lindsey, who
IS outspokon In his theoretical BELIEF
In wopan suffrage. lie admitted that
conditions in Colorado were far from
what they ought 10 be- and admitted
that the women OF the state were as
much bound by political experience as
the men.
In 20 states where only men vote
laws have been passed limiting the
hours that woman may be employ
ed" says Barry. In not one or the
states where women vote IRE there
any laws restricting IN labor for ~o'
men employees.
"The chief OF police of Denver told
me that juvenile crime was alarming
ly on the increase In that city Judge
Lindsey SAYS that this is due To the
increased pressure Oh economic condi-
tions. The conclusion of my investi-
CATION OF the laws for children was
IHNI lnSiehQ Vi ntllik uNAANA PAOeNNNNN
or even as well protected in the states
wnere women vote, they were actually
less protected.
Mrs. Gait. international president
OF suffrage societies. told me hat
when women voteC IL would certainly
eliminate the social evil. Mrs. Kate
Waller Barrett, national president OF
tina Florence Crittenden home for
hayward girls. says:
I'm all the IS Florence Crittenden
homes in the United States ! never
saw such a collection OF young. nno-
cent girls OF the better class as there
are I'm the Denver home. There are
IS girls there. most of them still IN
their teens. Such cases are alarm
ingly on the increase. Denver ana
Salt Lake City are among the few
remaining large cities In this country
where vice Is segregated. In one OF
the principal streets OF Denver women
exhibit themselves I'm the doors and
windows: while two blocks away -
schoolhouse. and children daily pass
through this district on their way 10
school.
"Nor have the women stamped out
polygamy, on the statement Of the most
prominent Salt Lake City paper. the
Salt Lake Tribune. which on Aug.
published q list OF $50 men who had
contracted plural marriages recently.
AS for drinking among women. ! was
told and saw for myself, that few
cities in the country. not New YORK
or Chicago or San Francisco. are any
worse In this respect than the capital
of Colorado. Even some OF the drug
stores In Denver. according TO good
s authority. serve whisky and brandy 10
unescorted girls.
Divorce Evil Not Mitigated
Barry finds that woman suffrage has
not mitigated the divorce evil
THE newspapers OF Denver con
stantly carry advertisements OF 'di.
yorce attorneys. and one OF the FRI
day afternoon diversions is TO go TO
the county court and observe the d.
vorce mill. Ordinarily the average
time required TO grind out divorce
Is four minutes and a half"
AS for women purifying politics,
says Barry:
II was In Denver al the time OF
the last election and had, therefore
n hrst-hand opportunity TO study the
question OF womans honesty in poll
tics. saw scores Of women accept
money for the election held in Den.
yer on May II, 1910. An incalculable
amount OF money was spent on that
day. In my own very restricted
sphere | saw about $1,000 paid out
20 women In Ave. ten and tweuty-dol-
lar lots
THAT same day sat in the Office
OF the campaign manager Of the vets
and saw a stream Of political women
mass I'm and out Each woman took
with her a $40 bill and instructions
how 10 work I'm her precinct
"A pretty very smartly gowned
woman went from the vets 90 tbs
'drys. for, as she said The vets"
gave me $3.50 two DAYS ago. and !
was for them all right, but this morn.
ing | found they had given my sister
$40. and now | am for the "drys.