The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-05
ny JOHN ELFRErH WATKINS.

~ women are now entitled 10 vote
upon a fun equality with man,
Nearly a million of our sisters Of vot-
Ing g granted this right within the
past year! Almost 200. 600 of them
within the month just gone,
Mere men. have you your ear unto
the ground and do you hear the swell
Ing tramp. ramp OF This amazon horde
tina presses onward to storm more and
more battlements OF our onc-timc
stronghold OF man rule?
You remember how we snor;ed. cac-
chinated and guTawed VIXEN the late
Justice Brewer, with entire solemnity,
uttered his prophecy that some day
q woman President will Sit in the
White House?" Yet within but a wear
and Il half after that noted jurist's
passing our equal suffrage zone has
trebled In population--a rate OF con-
quest which, II continued. will give
our sisters all of the remaining states
OF the Union before hve more years
nave ground past.
The territory already surrendered
to the green n purple banner of this
petticoated army covers an area near
~ ten times as great as that of New
England, nearly thrice that of Germany
and France, and wellnigh "a NTH of tho
total area of the States of our Union.
The surrender OF California. less than
q month ago. contaminated the great
est victory yet won under the green
and purple flag. for thereby the popu-
lation OF the equal suffrage empire was
nearly doubled-although Ave other
states had been previously caded to the
amazon forces. The conquest of Wash
ington, last autumn, was hailed as a
sigma triumph, but twice it's popula-
ton, double Its number of women of
voting age. have within these past
-FOUR weeks, been captured by these
conquerors in California, the largest
Commonwealth Of the Pacific and
Rocky Mountain region.
Number of Women Voters.
Our list of equal suffrage States. now
suddenly heightened TO six, contain to-
day 100000 women of voting age
this estimate based upon sex ratios and
population increases in these Common
wealths separately considered. This
feminine army armed with ballots Is
divided among the equal suffrage
States as hereunder appears:
wyoming. $4,000: Idaho, 10000; Utah,
$4,000; Colorado. 225, 300; Washington,
3Oo,Ooo; California. GS4. O0G.
Now, of course, these hgures must
be reduced somewhat by the subtrac-
tion OF o small percentage of foreign
women in these States who, although
old enough to vote, have not yet COM
pleted their naturalization as citizens;
also an unappreciable fraction barred
from suffrage because they arc felons.
idiots. lunatics. paupers or p~oIygamists
Should 1t come to a "sex against
sex" conflict in these six co-suffrage
States. the man voters would now have
the advantage Of numbers. Although
science says that the sexes are about
equally represented IN the birth rate
of the world at large, there are more
mon than women III America, due to
preponderance OF the male among
immigrants. During the past seventy
years our males have continued to
gain In the race. save during the Civil
War, when tho flower of our manhood
was sacrificed IN battle. and at the last
count there were in the United States
as a whole two moro males than fc-
males in each hundred Of population.
Particularly Ia this dearth OF wo-
men felt in the West, and this may be
one reason why our brothers OF that
region are more generous than their
Eastern neighbors in this matter of
granting suffrage.
Our friends the ethnologists tell us
that wornan's power over man Is great
est where woman is the scarcest-as