Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-05-10

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saffrnge and Non-snFfraRe Contrast.
OMAHA, Neb., May BIO the Editor
~ The Bee. An article entitled What
Women Have Done with the Vote" APP
psared IN your paper recently that Was
fun Of niptatements To begin with the
writer sald Colorado has had woman
outrage twenty years and California one
year, wheren- Colorado had had suffrage
twentyathFee yesrs and California
adopted II October 1911, nearly five years
ago,
Mention was nnads Of list Of laws
"nothered" by he women Of California.
AZ az equally Impressive list has been
"fAtheFed" by rnen IN states where women
DO not vote, California has no advantage
ever these other stafes. No mention was
made as TO how badly the California
laws are enforced. The red Light sbate-
mAnt law, for Instance. copied from the
Iowa law (put IN the statute books BY
mem has been naKrantly violated for
months and the conditions In Fan Fran
cisco have become 10 bad that a report
on ina subject Issued lat fall by the
American Social Hygiene association and
printed In the "congregntionsliet last
September. presents an appalling picture.
II says that the laws are absolutely un-
enforced and that San Francisco has be-
come a rneccn for dcnizens Of the under
world A. the aegresated vice districts
are closed in Nebraska. Wisconsin, Mas
sschusetts, MinnesotA and other male
suffrage states the inmates flock 10 Dem
yer ami San Francisco. where IN exchange
for their votes the police give them pro-
lection DR. Helen sumner herself
suffragist. admits that the vote Of these
women Is considered perquisite OF the
party in power
suffrnRlsts constantly tell Hs Of Cali
fornla's eight-hour law for women giving
the impression that It Is due TO woman
suffrage. This eRht-hopr law was passed
before women had voted and the law
does not apply 10 the canneries IN which
a great majority OF the working women
are employed. There are no restrictions
as to the hours women can work In Ore
Fon California and Warrington
Another statement that Every one Of
education laws This may be true, but
they are not enforced In the equal suf-
frage states. As a matter OF fact every
state IN the union north OF the Mason
and Dixon line. has these laws, Every
year In Colorado 5000 little children
bet ween seven and fifteen are worked
from twelve TO thirteen hours a day IN
the beet fields This has been going on
for years In direct violation Of the Colo
RADIO compulsory education law as well
as the child labor law. and the voting
women DO nothing about II, The labor
performed BY these children is very
heavy and wholly unsuited TO their age
An article In the Survey (of which
Iune Adams IA one Of the oditorsl Of
March tth, 1915 describes the conditions
n the child lnhorers and gives many
photos ar them nenves permits hoys
~ any age and girls Of ten years of age
to engage IN street trades,
The Eaual Guardianship law was
adopted IN New York several years
before Colorado or any other equal suf-
fraRe state adopted &C.
In regard 70 divorce, the conditions are
much worse IN The woman suffrage
states than anywhere else IN The
country Bishop Mnrthfsd ~ California
speaking recently 81 Trinity church.
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