The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-27

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humane treatment of animals in the
public school course; providing thai
any person employing child under
fourteen in any mine, smelter, mill
factory or underground works, shall
De punished by Imprisonment In ad.
dition to fine; abolishing the binding
out of industrial-home girls until
twenty-one, and providing for parole;
forbidding prosecuting and arresting
officers from collecting fees in cases
against children; providing that al
least two thousand dollars of the
estate of deceased parent shall be
paid to the child before creditors
claims are satisfied.
| These laws, directly concerned
with the welfare of the child, are sup
plemented by the following safe.
guards thrown about motherhood
the home, and general sociological
conditions.
! Laws making father and mother
joint heirs of deceased children; re-
quiring joint signature of husband
and wife to every chattel mortgage,
sale of household goods used by the
family, or conveyance or mortgage of
the homestead; making it a misde-
meanor to fail to support aged or
imtirm parents; providing that no
woman shall work more than eight
hours day at labor requiring her
to be on her feet; requiring one
woman physician on the board of the
insane asylum; providing for the care
of the feeble-minded. for their free
maintenance, and for the inspection
of private eleemosynary institutions
by the State Board of Charities;
making the Colorado Humane Society
a State Board OF child and animal
protection; enforcing pure-food in
spection in harmony with the nation
al law; providing that foreign life
or accident insurance companies,
when sued, must pay the costs; estab-
fishing State Travelling Library
Commission of Five women from the
State Federation of Womens Clubs;
and making it criminal offense to
fail, refuse or neglect to provide
food, clothing, shelter and care in
case of sickness to wife or minor
child.
The woman voter has boldly and
intelligently dealt with the criminal
problem" the labor problem" and
the suffrage problem" Not only
has the ''indeterminate sentence"
been written on the statute books,
and probation laws of greatest lati-
ude adopted, but women serving on
the penitentiary and reform school
boards have practically revolutioniz-
ed the conduct of penal institutions
in Colorado. Broken men are mend
ed now, not further cowed and crush
ed. A State Free Employment Blu
reau, with Offices in all Colorado
cities of more than twenty-five thous-
and has worked wonders, and the
bitter cry of the unemployed is less
and less heard; and women have
largely engineered the effective cam
paign in favor of direct legislation,
andh have been almost solidly be-
hind the fight for the initiative and
referendum, and direct primary, and
commission form of government.
At the last Denver election, held
May 9th, 1910, both Republican
and Democratic parties were COM
PEELED to recognize the popular de-
mand, and present charter amend
ments providing for the initiative,
recall and a water COM
But, under the control of
public service corporations, and prac-
tically financed by the water monop-
oily, which was asking for new
fake" amendments were
framed by both partie S. Skilfull,
indeed, was the wording-every
Cooked good"-yet not
one but had a ecker" in it. At the
last moment a Citizens Party took
the field, women behind 1t and a |
woman on the ticket. Real initiative,
referendum and recall amendments
were prepared, and a distinguished
water commission named with power
to either buy the water company's
plant at fixed figure, or build a
new one.
Against both organizations, cor
poration money, and every profess
sional politician and party henchman,
the Citizens ticket won an over
whelming victory, Denver now pos
sesses the initiative, referendum and
recall; and by virtue of bond issue
carried September 6, 1910, Denver