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diately as soon as women got the bal
lot, it seems as if much energy has
been used up that was needless. Take
the equal guardianship law that civic
bodies and good men and women had
worked for SIS years to get passed in
the state Of Massachusetts and which
became a law in California the first
year that women voted. Governor
Johnson of California saYd that more
good legislation was passed the first
year after women voted than had
been passed in 20 years before. The
women demanded such legislation. In
this good state the law is more severe
on a man who steals a horse than it
is for the crime of running a v%irtuous
girl. The law of this state says that
tubercular meat cannot be sold in the
state and yet it is often shipped out
and then shipped in again, I have
been told by those who know, and
still sold over the counter %unlabeled,
1t has been truly said shat most of
the men are so much better than the
laws that most of the women never
know how bad the laws are"
Fifth--Women are now non-parti-
san.
Prof. Henry E. Kelly, formerly If
the Iowa State University, now prac-
ticing law in Denver says in an open
letter to State Senator Gale of Iowa,
that he went to Colorado opposed to
equal suffrage, but has been convert
ed by what he has seen of it. He adds
Experience clearly shows that women
interest cannot be aroused in mere
partisan strife. Their interest centers
around questions affecting education,
public cleanliness, public morality, civ
ic beauty, charities and corrections,
public health, public libraries and
such subjects as more intimately af-
feet home life and conduce to the
prosperity of the family. Men lose
sight Of these important considera-
lions in the scramble of partisan war
fare for office but women viii rot see
them obscured by anything else."
There has never been a party meas.
ure espoused by women in the Colora-
do legislature, says Ellis Merridith.
The women of all parties want the
same things and have worked for
them together in perfect harmony.
The suffrage movement does moi
represent any desire of women to de.
sert the home, and it does not indicate
any feeling of antagonism between
women and men, or does not desire oil
women to encroach on any department
of life which is essentially masculine
1t is a good thing to remember thai
the women who have done things fol
humanity, who are now working fol
the betterment of conditions in every
walk of life, have been and are, al
most without exception %suffragists
who know that to have the power tina
the ballot gives is the easiest mean.
of getting results.
Sixth-It is a backward step.
There is nothing very backwar,
about the good laws that have bee,
put on the statutes of the state
where women have equal suffrage.
believe the anti-suffragists do no
understand what politics means t,
the women in the home.
They seem to think it is some dirt,
monster that in no wise effects GU
every day life. How about it?
Compulsory education laws tell u
when children shall go to school, hoy
long they shall remain, and wha
shall be studied; pure food law
perscribe what may be eaten in tn
home; building regulations even die
tate what kind of buildings can b
erected within the city limits; ther
are laws which specify the number Q
hours men may labor at some Of tn
trades; franchises ordinances cover
the telephone, water and electric ligl
service; health laws, truancy law
and laws establishing the age Of co
sent for girls all enter into our po
itics. The tariff establishes the pric
of food, clothing and building mate1
ials; municipal ordinances contr,
gambling, blindpiggings and othe
things. 1t is all in politics. How ca
any woman that really loves her hon
and family say she hasn't the tin
or is not interested in politics OF Il
suffrage question:.
Seventh-Men and women are di
ferent.
Yes, different, but theblood of Dol
father and mother flows In the veil
of the children and the good men az
the good women are both striving a
ter the same ideals. That the sex
" compliment each other is one Of Il
Divine laws Of nature and while me
have always looked after their bus
n ness interests the matters that mo
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