The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-09-02


be enough for all Wisconsin men that
we women, who in heaviness and an
guish, shape in our bodies the new
geration wish also to have our part
Our woman's part--in shaping with
the full dignity of citizenship, with
the full responsibility which comes
with authority, the social, economic
and industrial world into which that
generation shall be bern. No, I'm
not here to argue with you-I IN here
to tell you things
Senator Robinson then declared that,
though she would not answer any of
the alleged arguments against equal
suffrage because, stbeing quite grown
up have put away childish things"
she would answer the attacks on Colo
RADIO which state she declared ''has
become the target for the most vicious
and seditious campaign of SANDER ever
made against sovereign state-a cam
paign, mark you, led and financed by
the allied liquor interests and the COM
mercialized vice interests of New York
and New Jersey. 1t is interests such
as these which through their chosen
leaders, through corrupt political
bosses, are attacking the fine, gracious
womanhood of my state In a manner
which our United States Senator
Thomas truly says can only proceed
from mental perversion and degener-
acy. Unfortunately" she declared,
Gan entire state cannot get out an in
junction against its defarmers. But
at least Senator Robinson showed that
the women of that state can make q
strong case against their defarmers.
She took up and analysed certain
statistics which have been employed
to discredit Colorado, declaring that
most of such statistics are unreliable
| at best and at worst can prove abso-
lutely nothing. She dubbed the vital
statistics of most American states,
Hmy favorite romance and proceed
ed to show that the high divorce rate
IN Colorado proves nothing at all ex-
eept the fact, which has never needed
proof, that men and women from New
York and New Jersey and Pennsyl
vania and other eastern states, FIND
Colorado delightful place of resi-
dence-while they are securing that
divorce which for various reasons they
prefer not to secure at home.
Then, in passing, she told of new
divorce code passed by the last general
assembly and warned her hearers, hum
orously, that they must choose in future
another state than Colorado for unity
ing their matrimonial knots since the
new code makes the matter extremely
difficult for outsiders.
In discussing the question of
whether Colorado women vote Senator
Robinson INDUCED in no generalities,
but proved from Colorado poll books
that ffty-two per cent of the entire
vote in one county is cast by women
voters and that the percentage varies
from Ell Paso county, where more wom-
en- than men vote, to Huerfano county
where only thirty-seven per cent of the
vote is cast by women.
In analysing the laws which have
b0OH pdSoou IHTougH Inc lnHu6uc6 OIL
the women vote in Colorado, Senator
Robinson showed that they were all,
directly or indirectly, laws affecting
the home and childhood-that home
which, she protested, is still in equal
suffrage states, the woman's chief
concern.
elbow can it be otherwise9" she
asked. "The home is the woman g
creation, and she must desire to con-
serve and strengthen it because, as a
sex Inheritance, she feels the dead
hands of uncounted generations of
home-making women her ancestors,
and the tiny fingers, the baby fingers
of countless generations waiting to be
born, alike the dead and che unborn,
pulling at her heartstrings urging her
to do all in her power to conserve from
the dangers that threaten it, the home
Of today, the home of tomorrow, the
mothers home-in which home, also,
there are many mansions"