The Glenwood post., 1911-01-07
A. ]. DICKSON, Editor and Proprietor
Saturday, January 7, 1911.
THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE QUESTION

over the question of woman suffrage
and the threatened effort to attempt
the repeal of the law in this state al
lowing women to vote. The question
has been recently brought to the sur
face by Mrs Goddard, formerly
Springs, who joined Phoebe Couzins
and a number of other prominent wo
men in declaring in a recent number
of the Ladies Home journal that wo-
man suffrage was a failure and farce.
Possibly we might agree with them
in this but be that as it may we want
to declare frankly that in our iudg-
ment there is not one chance in a thou
sand for the law to be repealed in
Colorado and Mrs. Goddard is simply
wasting her sweetness on the desert air
in attempting any such feat.
1t may be that the law is a failure
and the practice a farce as Mrs. God
dard suggests, and there may be truth
in that other statement that neither the
state or the sex have been benefited
thereby; there may be reason for that
other statement so often made by both
men and women that the best women of
the state do not want to vote and re
gret the day that men surrendered be
fore the bursts of feminine Oratory
and gave women the ballot and that
now the women wish they had not
done it; and it may even be true that
the poor, weak men were deceived and
imposed upon by the women who made
promises which have never been full
tilled-promises of the great good and
the splendid moral and social reform
that would be brought about if women
were but given their right, the one
great and much coveted weapon-thc
ballot; if these and that other and
more serious accusation so frequently
made against woman suffrage that it
has coarsening and degrading effect
upon the woman and the home-if these
We're all true. and the Post will not
undertake to prove or deny them. w0-
man suffrage would still remain a re
ality in Colorado.
And you may ask why this is so.
Just because the politicians, and most
men in the Legislature are politicians or
they would not be there, are not going
to come out in the open and vote their
opinions if those opinions are opposed
to the present law.
From the standpoint of cold logic
it will be claimed that woman is as
much citizen of this great state as
is a man and therefore she has as much
RIGHT to vote as has man and you
start out to upset that argument and
Zee where you land. Leave out of the
question the good that woman has ac-
omplished by her voting. Suppose
ehe hasn't accomplished a particle of
good, her right is still there and upon
that right she proposes to stand and
the politicians will protect her in that
right and at such a rate that the re
pealers will never know they were in
the fight. 1t matters not that some
will say eyes, a woman has as much
right to vote as has man Just as she
has as much right to smoke cigar or
a sinking old pipe or those inexcusabla
coffin nails for which "Queen Alice
is said to have fondness. Yes. the
right is there but somehow there ar,
some things which man persists in do
ing which we do not like to see our
wives and sisters initiate Just let
some one take that stand and he will
be swept off his feet by the so-called
friend of woman who insists on her
right with as much reason as Shvlock
insisted on his pound of flesh, and he
will win out.
No. dear reader, the equal suffrage
law will never be eliminated from thr
Colorado statutes by legislative enact
ment. If Mrs. Goddard and her friends
expect to succeed they must go about
it through the initiative and referen
dun and we doubt if they can have
that initiated by the legislature.
AS to whether women shall or shall
not vote is of but little concern to
most men, except the politicians, and
the Post would be glad to see the
question as to whether the law shall be
continued submitted to the female vote
of the state and then settled as the
ladies' shall themselves decide We
guarantee that such a vote would
bring more women to the polls than
have ever voted since the law went
into effect.