The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-19

There are shortcomings in Colorado that could be borne upon with great effect. | To quote from George Creel: | For instance, 20 years of equal suf- 1 frage has failed utterly to lay the dust 1 in Colorado's rivers and the floor of the desert stretches Is still covered with a large quantity of sand. A thriving me- 1 tropolis like Silverton is showed in
 every winter as always, and Cherry Creek -Denver's Seine-has not yet been freed 1 from the menace of spring floods. There Is still the regrettable fact that
 no cure for badness has been discov- cred; man legislator was arrested for perjury this very winter, nothing has been
 done to solve the mystery of Oliver Os-
 borne's identity, and a gun has been founu necessary for the honor and trust camps of the conyicts, because farmers
 have tried to steal supplies orange-grow- Ing on Pike Peak is still a dream of the future and personal liberty has been out ragged by the adoption of statewide pros hibtion; the complaint of hard times persists; the eastern half of the state still suffers from drouth and praire dogs and
 men continue to make asses of themselves in city councils and the state legisla- ture."
 suffrage states, Colorado, California, Wy
 omins. Washington and Arizona have an eight -hour law for women. Utah, Idaho and Montana have a nine-hour law. How
 about Alabama? Are there any laws here to protect the working woman? It is true that four nonsuffrage states have a nine-hour day for women, but 1t Is much harder to get these laws and to
 enforce them in nonsuffrage states. Massachusetts has 50.000 manufacturing establishments and a total inspecting force of 24; 2o0,000 women and children are at work in these factories. All the suffrage states have adequate child labor
 and compulsory education laws that are well enforced. How about Alaba ma the future mothers and fathers. It's future citizens? Five of the suffrage states have
 minimum wage legislation for women, and
 the others soon will have.
 Eleven of the suffrage states have
 mothers pension laws, eight have a CO.,
 guardianship law. Kansas, Washington. Colorado. Oregon, Arizona and Idaho are
 prohibition states Wyoming, having local option, is 90 per cent dry.
 Does the gentleman from Cullman still say the laws are better in the nonsuf- frage states than in the suffrage states? As to the statement that every success ful woman ruler has been guided by men, we might name many particular instances where the men rulers were guided by
 women. but will only say with pr. Shaw, How strange that such inferior women should bring forth such superior men, MT. Beyers says there are so few women legisla tors Is not that an argument for suffrage. that the women prefer to go quietly to the polls and cast vote for the man who stands for remedial legisla- tion? He states that women and children l cannot enforce the laws after they have
 made them.
 No advocate of woman suffrage ever urged that children should either make
 or enforce laws.
 How are laws enforced? Is 1t not by having suitable penalties for the breaking of these laws?
 Then, laws providing for these penalties
 must be made by the SIS men and the 10 women.
 Note that Mir. Beyers classes women with the children. I suppose he also classe them with idiots. criminals, aliens and the insane.
 | That is where Alabama chivalry places Alabama women.
 l Thanking you for this space in your paper, 1 am, very truly yours. MYRTLE WHITNEY SMELL. | Birmingham. July IS, 1915.