The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-17
EXPECTING WOMEN
OF IOWA TO WIN
Carrie Chapman Gait, After Three
Day Survey Of state, Makes
Optimistic statement at
Headquarters.
HITS ANTS IN THE WORK
Says They Make Luxurious Llveli-
hood Out Of it-Brisbane Says
Women Are Intelligent
Voters.
HITS ANTS IN THE WORK

! DIES MONIES. Iowa, Feb 1.-THE
| women of Iowa have every reason to
! expect Justice at the hands of the
/ men or the state on June 81 said
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, president
OF the National Woman Suffrage as
| ISOLATION, at the close of her three
day survey of the Iowa suffrage stu
alton.
iowa ranks in the lead of the
states In intelligence, enterprise and
progress said the national president
in praise of her native state, "and
Iowa has never turned deaf ear
to any just cause. In twelve states.
including Illinois to the east and
Kansas to the west, women will vote
for president in November Why not
in Iowa? Are the women Of this
state less intelligent, less public
spirited, less trustworthy. than those
of our neighboring states? Surely
every man in Iowa will answer No
Il am not surprised to find the
familiar group of men and women,
who travel from campaign state to
campaign state engaged in maligning
women and woman suffrage, already
here. They are all saiaried persons
who make a luxurious livelihood out
Of the business of opposing woman
knows. Who or what is the power
which thinks 1t worth money to keep
Iowa women disfranchised? Iowa
men must judge.
Nor was | surprised to learn that
man from Colorado, who has visited
every campaign state of late, is now
in Iowa, passing from group to group
of men and dropping his insidious
charges against woman suffrage in
Colorado. Chief of these charges is
that eight out of ten men would re-
peal the law in Colorado if they
could. Then why don't they?
"As a matter of fact when Colo
RADIO gave the vote to it's women in
1893. it was by statutory enactment
supported by a referendum. Several
years later woman suffrage was put
into the constitution by an over
wheiming vote. III woman suffrage is
a failure, why was that done?
Colorado Sanctions Idea.
''Nbw the, Colorado legislature has
twice passed a resolution, the last
time in 1915, recommending woman
suffrage as a practical political meas
urei to all other states. Every gov
ernor and chief justice of the SUI
prene court of Colorado. for the Ian
twenty-five years, has given his I'M
qualified endorsement of woman suf-
fridge as benefit to the state and |
to/the women themselves. Both SEN
a2ors and the present members of
congress have frequently visited 9TH
er states, even defraying their own !
expenses to do SO, for the purpose |
of testifying in behalf Of woman suf-
frage in Colorado.
mo man of repute from that state
has in public speech or printed testi- (
mony over his own signature de- L
clared woman suffrage failure. Why
then does a man say that eight out
Of ten men want woman suffrage re-
pealed? Because he is paid to do it.
Why pays him? Let Iowa ask and
learn the answer il it can.
1.-THE fact that no state or coun-
try, which has once established wom-
an suffrage, has repealed it, or even
tried to do SO, is the best answer
10 the charges which will be spread