The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-09

vania Association Opposed to
Woman Suffrage.
The contention of various platform
enthusiasts and "soap-boN orators
that all legal and social ills would
end "if women had the ballot" has
met with more than one striking an
swer during the last few months.
In no state that has ever granted
double suffrage have the social or po-
litical conditions been improved there
by; not exclusive REFORM. not
one law for the protection OF women
and children or for the public interest
has been originated by or brought
through the feminine franchise.
Colorado model" State.
The sole distinction woman suffrage
seems to confer on a state is the abil-
ity to inject itself into the limelight
of notoriety for the weakness of its
administration. the scandals connected
with its politics, or the unheard of
system of Justice" that let's one man
go practically free for the alleged
killing Of women and children. while
another is convicted of murder and
sentenced for life because he was re-
motely implicated in the accidental
death OF a deputy.
Poor Colorado. which has been her
aided for years as the 'mHH'r suf-
frage State, has had votes for wom
en-" ever since 1S93-lonE ,nOuEh for
the "emancipated mothers to have
brought up sons and daughters to the
complete civic development" that Suf-
fraCists tells us attaches to the eNer-
else of the franchise. And yet. only
last week. labor leader in Colorado
was found guilty of murder. because n
deputy wounded in the knee by COM
AIDES of this labor leader subse-
Iuentlv bled to death. This man, in
State where ia hor conditions"
should have been 'benefted" by a
generation Of woman suffrage. was
sentenced to life imprisonment. Never
in the history of this country has any
thing similar been done.
Tho Frank trial in Georgia is case
where grave danger seems TO exist for a
miscarriage Of justice unless public opin-
on throughout the country achieves his
pardon. and likewise. after all these years
hat were ''eleVated' by votes for wom-
m in Colorado. a labor leader must he
subjected to punishment such as no
nan has had to bear since the Spanish
jnquisiton unless public opinion in alt
these States that are painted black on
The suffrage map comes to his rescue ,
The true inwardness of the situation is
better understood when We consider that
for the killing of women and children
in the tents at Ludlow last summer. and
the subsequent footing of their poor how
els. a militia official was reduced FIVE
files in rank"
Other Scandals Cited.
In other words. labor conditions" and
humanitarian legislation have become
81 improved" in Colorado since women
got the vote that a man in uniform
merely loses seniority to several others
Of his rank when women and children
are shot down by his command. but a man
in union is imprisoned for life because
some one Csc. without his orders wound
ed a deputy,
This affair is certainly serious. If II
the sole thing of its kind in Colo
RADIO. II would not be just to couple It with
the exercise of the franchise by women.
But il is not the only scandal by any
means. Only recently. Colorado legis-
lator. elected. of course. by purified pol
tiles" and the Intuition Of women
voters. was expelled for perjury.
'Onlv recently Judge Lindsey Of the
Denver Juvenile Court. found himself
compelled to appeal TO the public opinion
of the entire United States to save his
court from adjustment by politicians In
his appeal. Judge Lindsey told about the
beast an article he published several
Years ago dealing with corrupt conditions
In Colorado.
d
Lindsey said the Beast" attracted no
attention. tho Corruptionsts of Colorado
did not fear losing their control of things
in that State because its own citizens
We're informed
Fcar Public Opinion.
II WAS not until wear afterwards
when the Beast" was reprinted in a
magazine and became the talk of the
country. that the enemies of the juven-
nc court and its judge became incensed.
Why? Simply because national public
opinion is more feared by cvildoers than
The action of local people at the polls.
Again. the allegations that Colorado (.
governor even took orders" from the
corporations during the labor war la ST
year do not seem to show any Improve
ment" in democracy in Colorado. Nor
does the testimony before the Federal
Industrial Relations Commission, tina
sheep. mules. hox-cars and dead men,
voted in Colorado. edfv us as sample
of the ultimate extension Of the fran
Chse.
Besides though do not blame II di-
"ectly on Votes for women what is the
matter with Colorado" How does il ha p
pen that the Beast" got tighter grip
on that State than 1t ever has any of
these poor benighted and darkened States
where women do not vote II you turn
was due to anarchy and riot which the
women could not prevent. we ask why
the men elected and raised by the "eman-
Cipated" mothers of Colorado seem infe-
rior to those brought into the world by
the "enslaved" women of the States that
the suffragists print in black?
Call Federal Troops Twice.
If it is only an occasional trouble. some
thing that might have happened any
where from Maine to California, the fact
remains that Colorado is the only State
that has had to call on Federal troops 10
protect its citizens from riot twice in ten
wears. Judge Lindsey. Mother Jones'
and others have appealed to the Presi-
dent. 10 the Federal Industrial Relations
Commission. and to public opinion tc
Hounteract conditions in corrupt Colorado
and vet every adult over twenty-one in
that State has the almighty ballot and
large proportion OF the present day
"oters were even born of mothers who
mad all the franchise could give them.
And with it all. Colorado citizens under
louble suffrage. the Beast" and Fedora
police protection. pay the highest pei
capita tax in the Union. Neither women
and children, property. or a mans liberty
seeIL safe in Colorado The administra
lion fell down, not once but twice; the
militia went to pieces, and instead Of q
protection, became a menace to the live,
IF the common people; a man in the uni
all