Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19

ing one woman physician on board of
insane asylums. Making father and
mother joint heirs of deceased child.
Prohibiting the gift or sale of cigar
cites to children. With respect to
property. women are on basis of
perfect equality with men.
In 1870 before Utah was admitted
as a state. equal suffrage was adopted
and for II years women voted at all
elections, and acted as delegates to
political convention, but were not
eligible to office. In 1887 congress
took away the right. But when Utah
suffrage was included in the constitu-
ton. This was done by a popular
vote. Since the women have been on
an equal footing with men in all re-
spects, from IS to 80 per cent of
women eligible cast their vote in as
large or larger number than men.
Women have same rights, practically
over their independent property as
men. The effect upon legislature in
aiding to secure measures of equality
in pay, age of protection, establishing
free public libraries in cities and
towns, in educational matters, curfew
bell, use of tobacco and opium, provid-
ing for dependent, neglected or i'll
treated children, prohibiting traffic IN
women ard children and requiring
that seats shall be furnished where
women are employed and many other
humane laws for the great benefit Of
citizens Efforts to legaIize race
track gambling have been defeated in
Colorado and Utah. which defeat was
attributed to the influence of women's
votes, as was the abolition of laws in
Wyoming and Idaho, which formerly
licensed gambling.
Most men, of course, even In pOlyg-
amous countries, have only one wife,
since they are not rich enough to afford
more, but the fact that polygamy is
permitted lowers the status of mar
rage and lessons respect for all
women. Anti-suffragsts sometimes
try to establish connection between
equal suffrage and polygamy, because
Mormonism exists in Utah, and women
in Utah have the ballot The vast
bulk of the worlds polygamy exists in
countries where women have not the
ballot, and where the doctrine of
woman's inferiority and subsection
prevails in it's most extreme form. No
one who believes in equal rights for
women can believe in polygamy, of
course. The theory that a man is
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affections, while the wife is entitled
only to part Of his, belongs logically
to the same general realm of thought
which denies equal rights to women in
other respects.
In matters where the church die
tates, neither Mormon men nor Mormon
women can protect themselves by the
ballot, because they are incapacitated
for doing so by religious delusion
But in matters where the church does
not dictate, woman suffrage brings the
same benefits in Utah that it does in
other states. Messengers doing night
work, or sent to Objectionable places
must be over Fl years. Forbidding
boys under IL or girls under 16 to do
street peddling. or children under IL to
be bootblacks. No teacher in public
school to receive less than $3.50 per
year rs cents per day, lowest permis-
sible wage for girls under 10; 80 cents
per day lowest permissible wage for
adult learners or apprentices andS1. Is,
lowest for experienced adult women.
Idaho. same year with Utah in 1896,
three years after Colorado, received
} full suffrage for women. The first
time the people, voters, had chance
to express themselves by ballot. the
full suffrage was granted to women.
Three women were elected to the
lower house of the first legislature
AS in Colorado, the Office of state
superintendent of instruction has beer
: held by a woman ever since women
became eligible, each incumbent hold
ing it for two terms of two years each
The educational system in Idaho is
noted for its excellence and progress.
siveness. In 1900 the Legislature
passed a bill exempting women from
jury services, but this was vetoed by
the governor in response to protest
from the women themselves How.
ever, it is not customary for women tc
serve, except in special cases. The
effects upon legislature of women's
votes, are recorded as along same line
with work accomplished in the pre-
ceding mentioned states. In addition
are mentioned establishments provid-
ing for inspection and regulation OF
places where food and drugs are pre-
pared; for prohibiting persons of lewC
lives, both men and women from
voting; creating mothers pensions
giving cities and villages power tC
regulate and suppress prostitution.
) In 1912. six years later than Utah
; and Idaho. Arizona adopted equa
; suffrage. The first time the voters
(men) got chance to express them
selves upon the question this was
passed. Mrs. Frances Munds, suffrage
president of Arizona, leads the entire