The Colorado statesman., 1920-07-24

WHILE waiting for Delaware,
wv Vermont or some other state
to ratify the Woman Suffrage
Amendment, and while the Flying
Squadron is bombing the strong
hold of Connecticut, trying to make
it possible for millions of intelligent
human beings to exercise their
rights as citizens, we will consider
a few points regarding woman's suf-
frage.
While the question has not been
settled, lacking but one state to
make it legal. we firmly believe that
failure is impossible and that wom-
ans suffrage will soon be an assured
fact. We further believe that
through women alone can come the
solution of the labor and social un-
rest that confronts us today. This
!, cannot be, settled.oin a month or a
year. put in generation and wojn-
en- in the home is the influence
which will finally settle it. The
clean reigning in the home must
never be taken from womanhood. If
it is, then woman has failed in her
purpose. Esther, the diplomat, saved
her nation and the woman of this
age will do the same The first inven-
tions, the first homes and the begin
ming of human culture are due to
the influence of woman. She was
the first agriculturalist of the world
and to woman belongs the honor OF
developing an adequate human Ian
guage. Sacred and profane history
is full of the records of great deeds
by women. They have ruled king
doms and commanded armies. They
have excelled in state-craft and in
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environment, broken the shackles OF
custom and tyranny and stood be-
side their brothers in the fields of
arts and sciences and proved them
selves the peer of man.
The fate of nations has been de-
termined by their treatment of wom-
en- as merely the servant of man and
bearer of his children find
limit to their power of expansion
and vitality. The vices which spring
from disrespect of woman are fatal.
In the primitive days while man
with brain and Drawn engaged IN a
fierce struggle for his own existence
woman led in the struggle for the
life of others. The human mother
first learned the lesson of love and
by her example, drew from the
breast of man those ch1valrous ana
exalted sentiments which nave peeh
such potent forces in the develop
ment of a pure society. While man
learned the arts of hunting ana WAL
woman made for herself and child,
rem permanent habitation and
Iured the rowing hunter and bold
warrior to home and the peacefui
arts of commerce and manufacture.
The fixed habitation is indispensl-
BILE to the development of mind and
the accumulation of property Inc
woman is star builder of the home.
The home localized the man. Ine
home is the foundation stone OF all
true government. What affects the
government affects the home. Wit
ness the pitiable condition OF wom-
en- and children in foreign lanus'
caused by the ravages OF war anu tne
dastardly profiteering in our own
country.
Every department of the home IS
today under the control OF the gov,
eminent and hence in poltlcs' anu
the woman who takes no interest," III
those issues which affects her nome
and loved ones, has not reaiizeu stie
value of the ballot as factor III
regulating those conditions which SO
.vitaIlv affect the home. Woman SUI
frage is no longer theory. IL mas
heen tested. tried and not 1ouhu
wanting. 1t should be the duty OF
every man to uphold the Dranu vi
every woman in her efforts 10 REDRESS
great and unspeakable political
wrong. One cannot CONCEIVE nom
anv high minded man, with a near =,
a soul and an intellect, can LOON ms
mother, wife or daughter IN tne iaou
% and say that he is entitled , to any any
nolitical rights which she does not