The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23
WOMEN ANGRY
At MRS. DUBOIS
Idaho Sufragists Resent State
ment "Women Have Brought
About No Reforms"
DOESN'T KNOW WESTERN
CONDITIONS, SAY CRITICS
Declare That Women Have Ac.
complished Great Things by
Their Votes.
Spocial TO The Tribune.

special W ihtb"'N-
BOISE July 22.-The women OF the
state Of Idaho are highly indignant and
literally speaking "up in arms over the
purnorted statement OF Mrs. Fred T
Dubois of Blackfoot, Ida. wife OF former
United States Senator Dubois. to the ef-
feet that $50 fer women have brought
about no reforms In western states" Mrs
Dubois was speaking OF the woman suf-
frags movement In the west and was
freely quoted in a Des Moines. Ia, paper.
Idaho, and particularly Boise, suilTa :
gists assert that Mrs. Dubois Is not IA
miliar with western conditions ana inc
advancement made by Idaho. Oregon,
Utah Washington and other western
states II she asserts that women nave
not played an important part III mahihS
reforms possible.
The women who are familiar with what
members OF their sex have acco!npnsheu
not only in this state. through the power
OF the ballot, but more particularly What
they have done In the neighboring cities
OF Idaho Falls and Blacdoot, near wnere
Mrs. Dubois resides and where she mas
been during the past few years, are won ,
derng how the news OF 1t has escaped
her.
Child Labor Law.
Through their ballots the women OF
Blackfoot. Idaho Falls and other cltes
in the southeastern part OF this state
have forced civic improvements that
would have taken years TO bring ABOUT IN
the natural course OF events, And III
civic righteousness they have stood fore
most IL is claimed They were partcu-
larry active during the passage OF the
child labor law,
Mrs. Dubois is not a native OF ldaho
but has been a resident of this state FOR
a number of years and during that unc
she has been In position TO see woman
suffrage made a possibility and women
take not only an active part In the hand-
ling of public affairs but in the admin :
lstration OF public office. In her Des
Moines interview she stated that not
only had women Of the west not nroush,
about reforms but their influence had
not been felt.
The wife of the former United States
senator OF this state has been closely
Identified with the conservation OF the
child through work of the Mothers con
gress Of which she is one of the western
| officers. She has assisted in the pass
age OF reform juvenile laws In this state
and the segregation of the reform school
from that OF the school for INDECENT
Fellow Workers Angry.
But apparently all OF the reforms for
which Mrs. Dubois has worked have gone
| for nothing, Judging from the resentment
shown by her fellow workers here In
their indignation over her reported state
lnent given out at Des Moines
I'VE have always pointed with admira
| ton and pride to the wonderful achieve
| ments Of the women OF Blackfoot. Idaho
| Falls and other nearby cities. and now
| to have their splenolc work dismissed In
| this cool manner by Mrs. Dubois is eX-
| ceedinglv dlstasteful TO us of Boise and
what must Il be to the people Of her own
! city" commented one OF the leaders oi
| the woman suffrage movement here.
These and other expressions are heard
among the other woman suffrage leaders
| of the capital city who are chagrlned &c
| think that their state would be so pic
| tured with reference to the reforms they
| have worked for are concerned, to the
| middle west. Mrs. Dubois, to all ap-
| pearances. has stirred UP a hornets nest
| among those Of her own sex,