The Washington herald., 1913-07-14
WOMENS rule
PROVES COSTLY
Creating Millennium IN Cali
fornia Means Bankruptcy,
Says Anh-Suaragist.
TREASURY NEARLY EMPTY
Investigates BY Miss A. H. Chittenden
Declared to Show Futihty
Of Ballot.

Creating the millennium with the bal
lot. and regardless of the staggering cost.
has been Canrornia's beautiful dream
since woman suffrage carried the State
eighteen months ago. Children are not
TO be separated from their parents be-
cause or their poverty. Inc state Is 10
subsidize the home. School teachers are
to be pensioned. Old people are to re-
ceive an annual income. Prisoners are
to be paid Tor their Work IN the JAMS.
A regime of ease and comfort is to dawn
in the Golden state. And they every
body in the community Will be happy
except the taxpayers. VINO must become
paupers or criminals before they can
draw dividends on their investments IN
California's utopian scheme.
This resume OF a three months inves-
tigation of economic conditions in CALI
fornia and OF the equal suffrage law,
made by Miss Alice Mn Cnlttenden.
president of the New York State Anti
Suffrage Organization, is the opening
paragraph or a formal report given out
yesterday by the Washington neadquar-
tiers OF the National Association Opposed
to Woman Suffrage.
Big Fund Required.
THE appropriation for governing Cali
fornia. with its population OF 2,3",ois
census of 1910. for the coming year, Is
nearly s2O.OOo,ocO," Miss Chittenden's re-
port continues. This is an increase OF
about 100000 over the amount appro-
priated two years ago, just before the
suffrage was given to women by the
male voters of the State. This increase
is not surprising when one learns that
thirty-one commissions were created by
the Legislature that adjourned a few
weeks ago. IL is estimated that the an
nual expenses OF these commissions VIII
amount to about 100000.
While these reforms are being bought
and paid for. the announcement is made
that California has no money in its treas
ury to erect a State building to house
a State exhibit at the great Panama Ex-
position to be held in San Francisco In
ISIS The building must be paid for out
of the county treasures.
The last Legislature appointed special
commissions to study or investigate a
most every conceivable subject. but / Will
enumerate Just n few of them There Is
an industrial accident commission. with
an appropriat ton of S3l2,i10 A civil ser
vice commission, with a. $4,000 appro-
priation. An immigration and housing
commission, with an appropriation of
s5N.O"a. A State board of chiropody. with
an appropriation OF IS. 900. \ board OF
of $1,000. Twenty thousand was sppro-
priated to pay the salaries OF three in
spectors to visit houses where orphans
and half orphans are maintained by
State aid. This is in addition to the
proposed expenditure of a large sum for
mothers pensions. Twenty thousand IS
also appropriated for a board of com
missioners who shall determine what Is
a proper minimum wage for women and
minors.
Freak Bills Galore.
-Four thousand bills were introduced
at the last session of the California
Legislature, and 1.l00 were passed. 1t is
probable that no State ever had as many
freak bills introduced. One bill sought
to regulate the size of chicken coops.
Another was framed to dictate the style
of shoes school children should wear
An sai,nhf rca.lllatn he of