The evening world., 1911-01-14


out In Colorado a brutal custom
made fashionable by the cowboys sui
survives. They call It making q ten
derfoot dance I suppose you Know
how IT'S done. YOU shoot first at one
foot and then at the other and Keep
on saying, Dance, you sucker. dance
Now. the paper pattern expert who
went out to Colorado to investigate
suffrage says that Denver's chief OF
police told him the women OF Denver
drink more whiskey than the men. 1
know Chief Armstrong very well IN
deed. and / am perfectly sure mat II
he ever made thai statement he was
saying under his breath-Dance. you
sucker. dance!
What the Women Did.
AT the last election" w Mrs. Rey-
nolds in answer to my question:. 'the
people OF Colorado voted the initiative
and referendum, the most advances
step In democracy. which takes the
power out Of the hands OF the corpora
lions and puts It IN the HANDS OF the
people. There is no doubt that the
voman's vote achieved this great VIC
tory for the people Perhaps q month
aeo I would not have dared to mako
that statement. although / believed lie
but I. N. Stevens. editor OF the Pueopo
Chieftaan, and one Of the nos m
auential men IN our state. credited the
women voters Of Colorado with this
measure In a speech made at the Hotel
Aston on Dec. 8.
'Of course, the corporations, the sys-
tenn. the Beast, as Judge Lindsay calls
IL, violently opposed the efe'endum'
for AZ means that no more million doiiar
franchises can be given away. the
people can hold up any measure tney
disapproye until they vote on H.
"rhs Dsast Wal % enraged over
the vomsn's determination TO CLIP
its claws that II threatened 70 ts.c
he suffrage away from tnsm
they voted the referendum. the
women LAUGHED and voted II. They
arc laughing now at the snort
which 10 being made to supmn'
the question Of an as
franchixug them to h people
They hope II Will be submatSeo'
They want the overwhelming pop
ular Endorsement woman Suffrage
10 sure to get.
Won at Popular Election.
Tn 1876. when Colorado adopted III
constitution, the women were uhapie "
cot the vote, but they obtained Z
clause saving the people could vote Oh
tho woman suffrage question al an!
time. In 1898 under this provision
law was voted giving women the iran
chise. 1t won by 5000 votes IN Nv
the question was submitted again ~
the form of a constitutional amehn
ment. II won by 10000. The maJorit!
for suffrage would be positively over
whelming II the corporation succeed
In getting the question
again.
'You ask what the women have done
These are a few thing:
I'm the early sos q bill, drawn
, up by the Suffrage Association
, making husbands and wives equal
legal guardians OF their children
; was introduced by Charles 1arts-
well and passed By the COLORADO
! Senate In ten minutes without .
dissenting vote. The House voted
the measure In . similarly snort
time. It took the women OF Nasss-
ohusstts Just nfty-nvs years to get
an equal guardianship bill. Women
o are equal guardians Of thar chill
e drsn in Just thirteen States.
Before the bill was passed in Cole
RADIO a conservative came out to Cole
RADIO with his wife. She worked all da
d to uppor him and sat up all nigf
e nursing him. When he was dying 4
e~xpressed a wish to make a Will. A
he had no property his wife thought
was lust a sick mans fancy. and
humor him sent for a lawyer.
a WiIIed Away Unborn Child.
after his death that Will was openA
II and IL was found he had willed his vi
d born child away from the mother
Il his own parents. And 1t was perfect
legal for him TO do so. That one cal
reused the women of Colorado and p'
through the equal guardianship bill.
n "Ths women voters OF Colorado
obtained the state Home for DE-
pendent Children. They raised the
=. age of consent to eighteen years.
They established, in connection
h with the State Homo for Children,
the Home Finding Society, which
st permits them to ne adopted and ex-
ercises a State supervision over
II their new homes.
to They passed the Parental Re-
s~ponsibihty and the Contrtbutory
Delinquency acts, which made pos
sible the great work Of Judge
RI Lindsay.
The telegraph and telephone COT
We panies are the largest employers
~ boys. Under the Contrtbutory Deli
y, quency act, the manage of a compar
r.. who sends a boy into a doubtful reso