The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
Nebraska have laws prohibiting. night

in found in any of the four State
where women vote!
+! But, some will say. these are super
critical examinations of the law. d,
the conditions of the States wher,
women vote make these laws so nee
essary, Suppose we see.
An Alarming Increase i'm Juvenil,
Crime.
In 1905 and 1906 there were six
ty-seven children committed to the
Golden Industrial Home, the Colora
da State Reformatory. The following
two years one hundred and ninety
seven were committed there; an in
crease of three to one.
The chief of police of Denver told
me that Juvenile crime is on an
alarming increase in that city. Judge
Lindsey says this is due to the in
! creased pressure of economic condi-
tions, but he does not deny the fact.
The criers for women's votes have
pointed to the establishment of Judge
Lindsey's Juvenile Court as one of
the greatest achievements in woman's
ballot, and have repeatedly said that
Colorado was the first State to es-
tablish such court. found this
to be untrue, as the juvenile courts
in Boston and Chicago both antedated
the one in Denver. Nor is the Denver
Juvenile Court an exclusive posses
sion of Colorado. Fifteen States
where men only vote have established
such courts.
went into the question of child
illiteracy in the four States where
women vote, and found that the Uni
ted States census of 1900 showed that
Wyoming had one illiterate child to
every one hundred and eighteen peo-
pie in the State. Oregon, a~Western,
sparsely settled State, where women
do not vote, had only one illiterate
child in every two hundred and forty
of the population. Colorado, where
women vote, had one illiterate child
to every sixty persons in the State,
or four times as many as Oregon,
where women do not vote. Nebraska,
again, where women do not vote and
with twice as large population as
Colorado, had only half as many IL
literate children.
In none of the four States where
women vote was | able to find any
Home Finding societies for the plac-
ing of destitute children, such as you
find in Massachusetts, Illinois, New
Jersey and number of other Eastern
States This is the most humane and
economical method of caring for the
orphan, and yet you do not find it
where women vote.
The conclusion of my investigation
of the laws for children was, as any
one can see from the actual records
/ have given, that instead of being
better protected, or even as well pro-
tected in the States where women |
vote, they were actually less protect |
ed in the States where women had |
for years the opportunity to pass laws
for them, and the conditions parallel |
the laxity of the laws.
The Social Evil Has Not Been Abated.
| have heard woman suffragists in
The East declare that when women
voted the social evil would disappear.
Mrs. Gait. the international president
Of suffrage societies, told me that it
would certainly eliminate prostitu-
ion.
To ascertain this condition in Den
7er I quote the woman who ought to
,e as we'll informed as any one in
his country, Mrs. Kate Waller Bar
'ett, National President of the Flor
'nce Crittenton Home for Wayward
Urls.
"In all the seventy-eight Florence
Jrittenton homes in the United States
never saw such a collection of
Dung, innocent girls of the
etter class as there are in the
Denver home" says Mrs. Bar
EFT. There are fifty-eight girls
here, most of them still in their
.eens. The number of Legitimate
irths among young girls is increas-
1g at an alarming rate. So-called
ree-love' is also alarmingly on the
lcrease." i
The chief of police of Denver joins
18th the chief of police of Salt Lake
ity (the only two towns of any size
l the woman suffrage country as
~ authority for the statement that
is largely on he increase I
9TH in Colorado and in Utah. Idaho /
nd Wyoming, being rural commune 1
es, can show better record, but 1
i'll no better than similar communi-
eJo |