The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-03-31
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
INVESTIGATION
Richard Barry Reports Adverse
ly on Western Exper-
iment.

suffrage have been neachedby Richard
Barry, who has recently made an in
vest.gationn of the results in those
Western States which have extended
the franchise to women. Mr.. Barry
delivered an address, telling Of what
be had found out at the residence oil
Miss Mary S. Ames BOG Dartmouth
street Boston. He said that he had
end favored to make an impartial in
vestigation and get at the exact facts
His conclusions are that States hav-
ing woman suffrage do not have bet
ter laws regulating tine employment OF
woman and children that juvinile
crime is not lessensd, that the cleo
tions are not purified and that the
industrial standing of women is not
beetered.
Oklahoma said MIR. Barry which last
fall defeated a woman suffrage bill,
has one of the best child labor laws
in the country but this law was com
piled from the laws of New York, IL
linois, Massachusetts,, Ohio, Wisconsin
and Nebraska States which do not hav
woman suffrage. In twenn.y Skates
where women do not vote laws have
been passed limiting the hours that
women are employed. In Wyoming,
Colorado, Utah and Idaho, where lwo-
men have vc5ed for from for.y-one to
fourteen years, no such laws are ON
the statute books. New York, Massa-
ehusetds, Ddysware, Indiana and other
States have laws protesting women
workers which are no. found in the
suffrage States.
So far as Juvenile crime is concern
ed Mr.. Barry found that Colorado, and
especially Denver showed an in
crease out of proportion to that in
Eastern cities. Denver is the home
of Judge Lindsey, the father of the
juvenile count system. In Denver and
Salt Lake City he found that work
ing glrls rccaive about the same in
proportion TO what lis paid to men for
the same work that thay do in the
East.
Mr.. Barry studied Colorado politics
at close range in the last Denver
Municipal election, and his conclusion
is that the claims of the suffragists
that women would punify the cleo
tions was not borne out. There We're
two questions before the people; one
should the water company own its
own plant, or should it become a mum
cipal plant; the other question was
should the town be wet
or dry. A gnaat deal of money had
b5sn contributed by the water conf
company To subsidize, If possible, the
elsction. A great DIAL of money was
contributed by the liquor inntere5ts to
suhsidiZe. if possible, the election. |
The electorate shat was eligible for
the municipal franchise kues,ion was
he Taxpayers. Something over 20 per
senE. of this eleotonate was male. |
The electorate concerning the temper
lnce question was about evenly GIivid-
I'd, that Us, about half male and half |
,Jmale. Here are hhe RESULTS OF .his
alection: On the tlmp1rannce ques-
ion the vote in round numbers for
The dry" was 1900; for the VISITS"
$4,000. The "wsbs" majoni.y wwas Is,
100. With the votes half female and
half male. the saloonkedpers won
Utmost two to one. On the municipal
franchise question in spite Of the
expenditure of several hundred thou-
and dollars, the male electorate was
lble to d5feat the water company, and
low Denver owns its own water
,lant.
Mr.. Barry was with one of the cam
)algn managers on one of the sides
n this election thoroughly in his
confidence. but promising that his
lame should not be used and that
he defintte figures shomld not be d.
'ulged, though DIT was distinctly UNI
trstood for what purpose Mr.. Barry
was TO get his facts For ten days
before election a stream of Women
'assed in and out of the office. for
'ne single plrpose-to get from him
'ums OF money. The average sum
hat he gave these women was $40.
several afternoons Mr.. Barry sat by
his mans side and saw him pay the
women these sums of money, $40 bills
ometimes Sc bills and occasionally
when a womann was a pneciDat cap
ain, she got S25.-Boston TRANSCRIPT.
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