The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-01
An Answer TO the Question.

An AuhWer TO the Question.
1t is often asked II women in Col
orado really desire to vote. and IL they
make use OF the privilege that has
been extended to them. Statistics say
yes 70 both these questions. showing
that during the past ten years from
one-third TO one-halt the number OF
votes cast in Denver have been those
OF women.
Married women seem moro inclined
TO use tho ballot than single women
and widows. Women without hue.
bands appear 10 lack the suggestive
interest in the welfare OF stste and
netion-just as they lack Il in other
things outside themselYes-that mar.
rted women derive from close COM
penionship with men. II is single wo-
men, 100, who need. perhaps more than
the married. the beneht of being able
10 nave a voice In deciding questions
OF general Welfare. for many OF them
are owners and maintainers OF homes.
spinHtere Non-yotera-
l number among my friends two
charming spinsters between thirty and
thirty-nve years OF age, who own a
beautiful little cottage home The
younger sister has an excellent posi-
ton carrying good salary; the older
one is tho housekeeper. There is a
Email mortgage. which they are paving
off The employed one. q girl OF r,ucI,
dellcacy and refinement works in an
once where tho men ou.number tia
women three to one; she goes TO public
Offices TO pay realty taxes water taxes.
light bills. fuel bills and many ct
eeteras; she arranged the transfer or
her mortgage: she went before the
county commissioners 20 protest
against the amount of taxes assessed
on her home and on her personal prom
erty, securing a reduction of The one
and the two" hundred dollar exemption
pertaining to the other. Yet she does
not go TO tie polls and exercise her
right to voice in the regulation Of
the viciss!tudes attending the owner
ship of property.
A Next Door SciEhbor.
My next door neighbor is a widow
without children or any one deDcnd.
ihg on her for support, She keeps
boarders for n living, but Is denied
The two-hundred- d dollar tax exemption
on personal property which men and
women. rich or poor, who have de-
pendents, enjoy. And she Will not saw
3 word. in the only effective way (bv
votng) TO adjust the wrong In the
last Legislature, however. bill was
introduced giving single. lone women
the exemption referred to, making
them. In the eyes Of the law, heads OF
families.
~ YOU EVotsE l asked woman
about two years ago. who had moved
INTO our neighborhood.. and who was
the mother OF several children.
NO; l don't think it a woman,s
place; the. men can attend to that
was her reply. Several months later
her oldest child, a boy of twelve. was
crested for slight misdemeanor and
taken to the juvenile court She was
almost frantic for fear of an unjust
penalty but Judge Lindsey only sent
the boy home with a disgust in his
little heart for the folly OF which he
had been guilty, and a promise record
Ell In his brain TO avoid committing
1T again. 1t didn't take much to PER-
suade that woman to register and
vote for Judge Lindsey at the NEXT
election, and she has voted at each
election since.
Women Reached Through Children.
This last incident shows that women
may be reached through the appeal
OF the children-even women who are
not mothers-nad it was proven con
ciusiVeiy by the election by a good
majority of Judge Lindsey, an indie
pendent candidate, over the machine
or party--candidates 1t shows also
that women want clean. decent hon.
ost men in Office, regardless OF par
tisanship. and it further serves to IL
lustrate the absurdity of saying that
women Will not scratch their tickets
fearing mistake which will ca,sa
them to be thrown out of the count.
A Denver Woman.