Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-10-29
FOR U SUFFRAGE.

Le fo"luiaoy soN Slonus LII uoPtih tc Lo''abhon dhh'lu
ment granting to women the right to vote.
As has frequently been intimated in these columns, the equal
suffrage movement will eventually triumph throughout the domain
of the United States. 1t is coming, and those opposed to it might as
well begin to make preparations for making the best of what thcyI
consider an undesirable situation.
The Saturday News, through the observations of the writer, has
had occasion to note the results of woman suffrage in other states,
Colorado, for instance, is not an ideal state from a POLITICALLY
standpoint. It has within it certain political and economic condi
it to be not one whit worse for having had equal suffrage for the
Fast twenty odd years, and we are under the impression that Its con
dition is better for having had it.
We have marched to the polls side by side with the women of
Colorado We have observed that they generally voted in about the
same proportion as the men, T..
In our years of residence in Colorado, in the rural communities,
for the most part. with opportunities for noting conditions in the
cities, we have failed to observe that the women, as a class, have
lost q single womanly trait because OF the privilege OF the franchise
The babies in the homes ire still the subjects Of the fond mothers
tender care. The element of rowdyism for the most part about the
If the women Of Colorado have exerted any influence at all upon
the body polite, and upon political l! conditions n1on as it it has s. not been FOR or n
intelligence Of moral turpitude OF our mothers, our wives, our sisters
True, now and then, a woman forgets the ideaism of her sex and
INDUCES in ward heelng and ward rounding like her elder brother
\ ' The sli IMPRESSION snn wa was driven home ION q US again and again, in the
whirligig Of the politics Of the great Rocky Mountain stater,-the I'M
preston that the average mother the average sister, cannot cast aside
her motherly intuition, her motherly instinct, it you please SO to
term it No political consideration is sufficiently powerful TO drive
8 proposition which She deems harmful to her son or her daughter
ohiner g'o Il ali lalIittifsal parties amG ma may combine, to carry T through Of to
defeat q project, but they cannot control the vote OF the average
the moral welfare Of the youth. We are notsspeaking Will. refer
ence4 to the liquor trahfe-we are leaving that entirely out Of consld-
This attribute 81 the sex is amply illustrated in the tremendous
fights that have been Waged to overthrow Judge Lindsey OF Denver,
the judge ofsthe Juvenile court. Every politician OF note IN both the
leading parties, every political newspaper IN the city, have tune ana ana
again combined to encompass the defeat Of Judge Lindsey who has
stood in thesway Of the Vaccinations of the dominant machine, but,
unheedful of the party lash, unmindfnl OF the appeals or party man
ayers, deaf to the cries Of the party newspapers, the good Wnmen. OF
Denver have hocked to the polls to cast their ballots for the retention
of Judge Lindsey because-simply because-he has been doing some
thing for the benefit of the youth of the cHy7-somethlng to keep
the boys and the girls In the straight and marrow path that leads TO
manhood and womanhood; directing their steps IN right channels;
pointing the way to a better life. @#85
2 Let South Dakota recognize Its women as citizens, placing Them
upon a footing at least equal to that Of the male Indians.