Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-24
Colorado


look out for No. /! If woman wants a
political job. she'll stand for iniquity; IL
she is afraid OF losing her Job she'll do
the same thing. II anyone believes that
woman suffrage is panacea for all the
evils of our political life, he does not
know what those evils are. The women
are as free Of the power Of the Beast as
men are and no freer"
Everybody's Magazine 1909-l9l0 after
Beast and the Jungle" by Judge Lindsey
On file in Omaha Public library.
Judge Lindsey, testifying before the
federal commission on industrial rela-
tons in session at New York, May rs,
1914, said: Colorado has perfected the
science of corrupting men. Its judges, its
supreme court judges, are owned like
office boys. Its lawyers, its business
men. all are owned. There are, of course,
fearless men, but they have paid heavy
sacrifice for their fearlessness. Conditions
are worse than the old slavery days and
l consider Colorado no longer has a re-
publican form of government"
Theodore Roosevelt says: 81 believe in
woman's suffrage wherever the women
want it-wherethey do not want 1t the
, suffrage should not be forced upon them.
| think that II would be well to let the
women themselves and only the women
vote at some special election TO
whether they do or do not wish the vote
as a permanent possession. In other
words, this is peculiarly case for the
referendum to those most directly at
| fected-the women themselves. l believe
| such referendum was held in Massa-
I chusetts, in which a majority Of the
! women who voted voted in favor of the
! ballot. But they included only about >
! per cent Of the women who were entitled
/ to vote and where the vote Is so light
those not voting should be held 10 have
voted no. This was in 1895.
I'm our western states where the suf
! frage has been given TO women ] am
unable to see that any great difference
has been caused as compared with neigh
| boring states of similar social and in
dustrial conditions where women have
not the suffrage.
Most of the women I know best are
against woman suffrage and strongly
criticise me for aiding in, as they term it,
forcing 1t on them.
Most of the women whom / know best
are against woman suffrage precisely be-
cause they approach life from the stand
point of duty. They are not interested in
their right so much as in their obliga-
tions."
CThe outlook, February 8, 1912. on file
! in Omaha Public library)
Statement of Mrs. Francis w Goddard,
president of the Colonial Danes of Colo
RADIO and wife of Chief Justice Goddard:
II have voted since 1893. l have been a
delegate to the city and state conventions
and a member of the republican state
committee from my county; 1 have been
a deputy sheriff and a watcher at the
polls; for twenty-three years have been
In the midst of woman suffrage and have
worked day in and day out for 1t; now /
see my mistake and would abolish it to-
morrow IL l could.
mo law has been put on the statute
book of Colorado for the benefit of
women and children that has been put
J there by the woman's vote. The hours
of working women have not been short
ened; the wages OF school teachers have
not been raised; the type OF men that get
into office has not improved a bit.
"As for the effect of the vote on
of women who worked for the republican
. party one year and worked for the demo-
cratic party the next year, telling me
frankly, the democrats gave us more
money
Frankly, the experiment is a failure
1t has done Colorado no good; 1t has
done women no good The best thing fol
: both would be IL tomorrow the ballot fol
, women would be abolished"
! Judge Moses Hallett. who was judge
. of the United States circuit court twenty
seven years, and previously chief justice
!, of the supreme court of Colorado. statel
, in the Denver Republican: our STATE
|, has had the female suffrage plan a sui
: ficiently long time to form fair idea o.
its workings / am not prejudiced il
. any way, but honestly do not see wher'
the experiment has proved a benefit. Tn,
= presence of women at the polls has onl!
= augmented the total vote: it has worked
: no radical changes. 1t has promoted NJ
: special reforms, and 1t has had no par
ticularly purifying effect upon politics
, There is a growing tendency on the par
= of most of the better and more intelligen
female voters of Colorado to cease ex
ercising the ballot, They still go to tn
polls. but need to be urged by some o
their male relatives / do not believ
there will be any abrogation of the suf
fragc rights OF women OF our state. 70
"a the reason that no man who aspires L
Is office would risk their displeasure b.
e advocating the repeal OF the law. A
p the same time, if 1t were to be done owe
'e again. the people OF Colorado would de
+ feat woman suffrage by an overwhelmin
re majority
J. In Colorado all the four women sitting
h the legislature of 19lO-1Sll actually vote
Ell for a most vile race-track gambling bill
o. by their votes and example greatly ali
H. ing its passage by the legislature. Co
ernor Shafroth promptly vetoed the b
and administered this seathing rebul
to the women in his veto message:
III this bill became a law, the fling
Of scorn and ridieule would ever aft
re be pointed at the influence of woman
ne franchise in state affairs"
E. The facts as TO the social evil in De
es yer are vouched for BY Mrs. Kate Wall
H. Barrett, national president of the Flo
no enoe Crittendon Homes for Waywa
d. Girls. She states as follows: I'm all Il
II seventy-eight Florence Crittendon HON
Mt in the United States. never saw such
is collection OF girls of the better class
are in the Denver home. "