Bisbee daily review., 1911-02-07
Argument For Woman Suffrage
By Mrs. 8. T. ViaII

-'odTu Dl NculiOt lo Dt WOniSuf lit- 1 i rluding instruction concerning the humane treatment of animals in the public school course abOlishing the binding out of industrial home girls until twenty-one, and providing for parole: providing that ar least $2000 or the estate of a deceased parent shall be paid to the child before cred iiors' claims are satisfied. These laws directly concerned with the welfare of the child, are supplemented by the following safeguards thrown
 about motherhood, the home, and general sociological conditions; laws l making fathers and mothers joint | heirs of deceased children; requir- ing joint signature of husband ana l wife to every chattel mortgage. sale | of household goods used by the fam. fly ,or conveyance or mortgage of homestead making it a misdemeanor to fail to support aged or infirm par ents providing that no woman shall
 work more than eight hours a day at
 labor requiring her to be on her feet:
 requiring one woman physician on the
 board of the insane asylum; provid,
 ing for the care of the feeble-minded and for their free maintenance; en-
 forcing purefood inspection in har.
 mony with the national law; making
 il a criminal offence to fail. refuse or
 neglect to provide food, clothing. shelter and care in case of sickness of
 wife or minor child
 The woman voter has boldly and fin
 telligCI1tly dealt with the criminai i problem. the labor problem, and the
 suffrage problem. Not only has the indeterminate sentence been written 1 on the statute books, and probation laws of the greatest latitude adopted;
 but women serving on the peuitenti.
 sTy and reform school boards have
 practically revolutionized the con-
 duet of penal institutions in Colorado.
 Broken men are mended now. not , further eoVed and crushed. A State
 Tree Employment Bureau. with oflces in all Colorado cities of more than
 29,ooO. has worked wonders. and the bitter cry of the unemployed is less
 and less heard
 And here comes another anti-suf fTagist with the argument that tho . so-cailed silent influence" as exerted f by women, will work the needed re } forms and gain the desired legisla 3 tion where the voting will not an F tasonize the male voters and jeotssr1 , ize the measure she is working for Before Colorado women had the fran 5 chise. they tried in vain to have tn, kindergarten made part of the pub - lie school system; after the adoption of equal suffrage, they forced the re ,. form within a year In Massachu l setts where the women stay at hom, l. and depend entirely on silent influ r ence," they worked silently, of course - for fifty-fve years to get a lay ,- passed making the mother equal guar Il dian of minor children with tn |, father. Within one year after beinI :. Granted the right of franchise, tn T women of Colorado had this sam s law on the statute books.
 Il The argument that women's chal e acters are deteriorating under equs d suffrage and that it tends to weake h home ties Cor, as the more radical oI
 ponents of equal suffrage claim, tha II 1t destroys the home), will answe IT by quoting from articles by Justic 7, David J. Brewer, of the U. s. SI h preme Court, and Judge Ben 3. Lint C. say of the Juvenile Court in Dcnve n respectively
 at Justice Brewer says; Tt is sal C. that there is daily growing a strengt it of character which comes not a lit y from familiarity with public affair 'n and that out of hat strength of cha le acter will be developed great Y capacity for improving public life ar m morals, and that women will, as Il IT. days go by, rs-Slize that voting is 'e duty and not a pastime Mere votit
 may not give the needed quaiitie a but, as they more and more. ake pa sh in public affairs. much of objectiC is to the franchise will disappear: an us unless human nature in the one s' lS Is different from that in the othe he the very effort they make in the e' directions will develop day by day ne greater ability to do that which 'e wise, to act with moderation and y se firmness, and to bring about the b in- ter day which We all believe is col aS ing. More than that, the heart l, the sex is against the terrible ( s' structions of war; they will be fou oH a mighty political force in favor in the settlement of international q " putes by arbitration"
 Judge Lindsay says: Just as
 the laws passed by the women s s. nificantly concern the home and -. - environment. just so does partici
 tion in public affairs seem to ha
 given Colorado women a deeper, mo
 intelligent and energetic interest -. ;heir homes. By tbe regal establi -1s inent and recognition of womans .iIo izenship, the intellect and characi
 -. and recipro,.al estimation of D,