The Glenwood post., 1917-09-29
MRS. BREWSTER ON
COLORADO SUFFRAGE

During her visit here last summer,
Mrs. Benjamin Brewster wrote the fol-
lowing letter to Miss Helen N. Bates,
managing editor of the Suffrage Sup
pement at Portland, Maine, as Chow
| suffrage works in the states that have
tried it.,'
Glenwood Springs, Colo, Aug 4, 1917
Dear Miss Bates:
1t is lovely to be back in Colorado,
and the children and myself are en-
joying climbing the mountains, riding
horseback and swimming in the fine
warm outdoor sulphur pool, which is
seven hundred feet long and hundred
feet wide. The mountains, the color
ing and the country are wonderful.
I have been talking with many men
and women and asking them how they
feel about suffrage, and everywhere 7
meet the same answer: That it has
been the greatest possible benefit to
the state. There is not an intelligent
man who would like to see things as
they were 25 years ago, and the vote
taken from the women. The women
who vote take so much deeper interest
in the larger affairs of life, in reading
the papers, in keeping up with the war
news and knowing about their hus-
bands business and ases therefore 50
much more intelligent aad closer con-
panions to their men.
1 think told you Of our woman
judge in Eagle county. At her hus.
bands death she was asked to serve
out his term because she had such
legal mind and understood his bust
ness SO we'll. She served out his term
and has been reelected several times.
I am told she is still filling the posi-
tion of judge most successfully. She
has brought up family of four or
five children.
met woman friend the other day
and she told me what an interesting
experience she had just had serving
on jury am told on good author
ity that Denver is the cleanest and
best governed city in the United
States.
The things we sometimes see in the
papers against the city come largely
from personal matter between a GER
tain newspaper and the mayor.
This winter there were some matters
about the schools that were not sue
cessful because unfortunately there
were some narrow minded men on the
board. The women's 8 votes succeeded
in putting in three new members and
one of these was woman. With this
new board Denver schools promise IL
successful winter.
Throughout Colorado this summer, the
school gymnasiums and Fairgrounds
are opt daily with tea.her in charge
to cafe for ,y" children at play There
are also summer schools where back
ward children or children who have
been sick in the winter can make up
their work, at cost of 25 cents a
week.
Many women occupy positions as
county superintendents of schools and
our state superintendent, Mrs. Brad
ford, is nationally well-known.
In Denver, now, owing to the scar.
city of men, the women are running
elevators, drawing the same pay as the
men and wherever she does the same
work as a man she gets an equal sal
sry.
I hated to leave Colorado and my
vote, but felt It most keenly the day
before election in Portland, when q
Jamaican said to me: Congratulate
me, Mrs. Brewster, have my hrst
vote," and I said: "Give me you,
sympathy, for after having my vote
for Is years, I have lost II because
sm . womaL and lave moved ia
Name" And on election day, when
I handed out literature At the polls,
'oneed for the liberty and tho full
right Of eiti:tnship that I had in Colo
raAo.
With best witches tor September 10.
STELLA YATES BREWSTER,
(Mrs Hnjanin BREWSTER