TITE OMATIA DAILY DEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6,
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WHERE LOVELY WOMEN VOTE
How remain 8nfirog Eai Affected lb
Womtn of Co' o: ado.
BEAUTIES OF FEMALES IN POLITICS
Haatloa fa the Centeaalal Stat aa
Yiened by aa Easter Wdbii
M ho Investigated (he Com-
IUobs There.
(Elisabeth MeCracken In the Outlook.)
The question as to the granting to women
of those political privileges now lielJ
chiefly by men, of the imposing upon
women of thore political duties as yet per
formed mainly by men; the questllon of
woman's suffrage, In other words, unless
It threatens the Immediate community In
which we lira, Is a, problem regarding
wr.ich a few Amvui, It Is true, have
the most ardent possible convictions, either
pro or con, but In respect to which the
majority of us in America, whether men
or women, are, if not Indifferent, still
somewhat neutral.
For ten years the women of Colorado
have had the use of the ballot; for ten
years tbey have been to use the phrase
of the tntl-suffragists of the settlement -living
the military Ufe. ilave they been
of value on the battlefield of politico?
oareely a day passe In Colorado wherein
this question Is not answered In the affirm
ative or In the negative. A singularly
lear-mlnded woman whom I met In Colo
rado prlngs explained to me that this
diversity ef reply Is not unnatural. "Ten
years Is not a very long period of time,"
he said; ''by no means long enough to
form the basis of but one true answer to
o grave and maey-sided a question.
Women In Colorado, in the use they have
made and not made of their political
power, have helped and they have hin
dered." A period of ten years Is, no doubt, too
mall to serve as a foundation for a single,
comprehensive and unalterable answer
vn to the smallest auerton as to the
actual resultant effect of equal suffrage
I tipon publio affairs in Colorado, A new po
J litlca expedient cannot, perhaps, be fully
tested In ten years. In the life of a ntate
I years form undoubtedly no great frac
tion of the whole, but In tho life of a
woman do not ten years mean a great
dealT In one year a woman may work
uch Injury to herzelf as to make even so
Immediate a reparation. Impossible. That
the majority of those women in Colorado
who are actively engaged In politics havo
hurt themselves with the ballot, and hurt
themselves very cruelly, appeared to me,
during my visit In. Colorado, to be so un
mlRt tkably apparent as to leave little room
for that Coubt aonoerpng the matter which
I would have preferred to retain.
It had seemed to ma at ones Interesting
and significant that women In Colorado not
yet old enough, legally, to vote, gave evi
dence of such alight Interest In their ap
proaching political privileges. I met . a
large number of girls of varying ages in
various places lit Co'orado; most of them
talked to ma with every appearance of
alnoerlty oonoirnltig their imminent publls
refpan,"iUllilO!i, but only one expressed an
enthusiasm for the political situation n
her state. Many of them were Indifferent,
and even more said decidedly that they
were aorry they lived In a state In which
suffrage had been granted to woman. One
Of these latter added In explanation that "it
created ao much eicltement"
Btlr up agitation it ortalnjy. does an
y agitation that Is too frequently an end In
Itself, public Ufa In. Colorado (a hysterical.
That women have, by their attitude to
ward their political duties, helped to make
It so, Is to be feared. The simplest discus.
Ion of the most trivial matter la marked
by a brestheea tenensi put of all con.
celvable proportion to the occasion.
I very soon found, in Denver for ex
ample, that It was unwise to put questions
to any woman whomsoever, regarding any
publio Issue, If another woman at all likely
to disagree with her chanced to be present.
Instead of hearing one reply, or even twe
differing replies, I was obliged to listen
to a long, excited and eheotlp argumenta
tion between the two women pledged to CPt
poalto sides pf the sltuatiuu. Very muob
more often than onoe I was disconcerted
by an Impromptu delete of this kind which
I had Inadvertently instigated.
A woman whom I met one day In Denver
waa, as I soon found myself reVctantty
Obliged to admit, a typical representative
of that particular group of women
suffragists In Colorado wbq would seem j
chiefly to be engaged In what my young
t Informant lalntvely described a "creat
'Ing excitement." Political power had ln
' toxlcatcd her( she reveled In It, not as a
means to an end, but as an exhilarating
Indulgence, as one conversation In particu
lar Willi h I had With her revealed.
The shape In penver observe much the
same rules relating to employes aa the
hop' In New York, Boston and Chicago;
hours, vacations and other kindred mat
ters were very similarly regulated. Mer
chants In New York, Boston and Chicago,
M moat of us know, have not only agreed
without Ill-feeling or resistance to or
dinances bettering the circumstances 1 of
their emplojee, but have In many cases
been foremost In suggesting and assisting
these and other reforms. Why might not
this have hippened In DenverT That It
had not the woman who exulted n her ye
es.ton of the ballot evidenced,
''Have you been In t any of our shops?"
he asked one day, and wbsa I replied that
I h4 ahe continued: "poa't you, think our
hop girl are well treated r'
Urleful to her because she had Intro
duced e, loplo of such especial Interest ts
me 1 agreed with much warmth, "flow
d4 eu bring It abiut?" I then questioned.
"By the ballot," she began In aa ora
torical tone of vylcr. yg women aald to
the shopkeepers. 'You must ameliorate the
state of your employes,' and they didn't
dare to refuse. If they had refused we
aould have made them anaart, because we
pave the ballot!' .
"But why wore you ao strenuous?" I
(Miked n -nulns amazement, "We Mid
to the merchants In the east, 'Why don't
you improve the conditions of your em'
ployes? Merchants are not necessarily In.
human and vnprlncti lei. In the course of
time many In the eust did what they could,
pur S'lewomtR are very well treated"
''Yt.il haven't the billot," she Interrupted.
"No," I admitted, '"jut we have shops as
admirably conducted aa yours"
"Oh," she Interpol el, "I grant that you
may have Influence, but we, we have
power:"
She was, of cours perfectly correct, but
In th Inrtarce cited has not Influence been
qi.i e as effective as power, and perhaps
also a little lens crude and more than a
little less rasping?
The proprietor of a not unimportant
shop In Denver could scarcely speak of the
part taken by Women In Instituting labor
reforms In that city without Irritation.
"They threaten and call names and stir
up such a nted.ess commotion," the said.
The owner of a large eatnbrsbmcnt In Bos.
ton said, on the other hand, that he con
sidered the state cf Massachusetts to be
pccullnrly Ind.btoi to Its women for help
In Improving the condl Ion. under which
womtn and chl.dren worked. "In the very
nature of thln,s wo.r.en are more able than
men to offer practical suggestions on these
thingi!," hj snld, emphatically. In Chi
cago another merchant, and In Cleveland
still another, spoke In equnlly enthusiasts
terms of the tenement influence exerted
by the women of the respective cities upon
labor legislation. The exercise of political
power on the part of that woman In Den
ver who ro-nlndeJ me repeatedly that ahe
had, the ballot may have given to her
mclodram-tlc thrill not otherwise obtain
able, but has It mads her any more useful
as a clthnn than her co-worker In Boston,
Cleve and or Chicago who haa not the bal
lot? nd hits It not perhaps made her a
trifle leis womanly? Has she not hurt her.
self a II tie with the fascinating weapon?
She ha-, it li true, trou&ht upon herself
a lesser misfortune; beyond the weakening
of her personal dignity and the blunting of
her sensq of taste she has crippled herself
little further. Unfortunately, aa one of her
0c4ual.1t1r.ces, a suft.-atlst, t-ld me, neither
this particular women nor any other mem
ter of her group Is representative of the
most powerful clus of women politicians
in Color-Co. 'Vho lacks skill," said her
acqubln ance, end then she pointed out to
me until her woman who, she said, pos.
cecsud fk.ll.
As to the nature of that skill I was,
noedless to aay, exceedingly Interested.
The woman in possession of it was of un
questionable Importance in the publla af
fairs not only of her city, but of her state
as a whole. Her friends referred to her in
phrases which, if vague, were yet unde
niably indicative of unqualified admiration.
"What la It that sh'e does?" I asked.
"Everything!" was the expansive reply.
"In what way?' I Inquired.
"In every way!'' came the instant answer.
When I had all but begun to despair of
receiving any more deltnite Information,
one of the political enemies of this woman.
whom I was beginning to admire for her
obviously great interest In philanthropic
affulis, said to me, by way of comment
upon my somewhat enthuslastto tributes
to so largo an active Interest on the part
of so otherwise overworked a woman: Oh,
but that's a part of her campaign plan,
She does It to get votes."
This accusation I repeated to a friend of
the woman against whom It had been made
In order that she might refute It. To my
astonishment, she said: "Cprtalnlyl The
people she helps will, of course, vote for
her I For whom else should they vote? She
has been kind to them; ahe will eontlnue
tp be kind o them, It la fr their own
gqod to give her tbitr support."
"But, granting that," I said, "Isn't being
friendly to them in order to secure their
support a eort of bribery? Isn't It buying
votes-rrwlth kindness, know, but still buy?
Ing votes?
"Well," said my companion, "she must
have votes! Ypu wouldn't have hr buy
them with money, would you?"
Bhe gased at me In evident perplexity.
"If you prefer people who are doing lt-
ahe began. Without finishing, ahe went
quickly across tb asaembly room In which
we had happened to meet. After a fe
momenta she returned, followed by
sweet-faced woman, with the Introducing
p wttorq ahe concluded her Interrupted
sentence. "Here Is a person of that type I"
With which she abruptly laft ua.
Au expression ef bewilderment came Into
the face of the person of that type. "Do
you know what ahe means?" aha eel(ed.
me, looking after the other woman.
"That you are doing charitable work
think," I ventured. .
My new acquaintance laughed. In aome
relief. "Oh! yea, I try to do all I can," ahe
aid. ' It Isn't much. Charity work la hard
to do In Denver; harder than In most
cities."
"Why?" I Inquired, In surprise.
"Because one'a motives are distrusted ao
often; and that is a hindrance." She
looked at mo thoughtfully. "Shall I ex
plain?" aha asked.
"X think I understand," I aald.
OOO
rchard & Wilhelm -Sarpef So...
TOYS! T0YS! TOYS! TOYS! TOYS!
OPENING OF OUR TOY DEPARTMENT ON MAIN FLOOR, MONDAY, DEC. 7TH,
Special attention has been given to the assembling of a Toy stock that is different. We have searched
the stocks of the greatest Toy manufacturers of Germany and France for novelties, and have imported direct a
superb showing of novel, practical and instructive Toys that are shown here for the first time and shown only
by us. Particular attention has been given this year to bring out a line of useful, substantial and truly instruc
tive Toys that will not only fascinate the little folk but, will interest the parent. We urge an early selection as
it is usually the case that the choice Toy novelties are picked up early in the toy season.
Come early and often BRING THE LITTLE FOLKS.
Toy Department . Main Floor. 8S?IINC Monday, Dec. 7th
Teak Wood Pieces in raborcts
and Pedestals.
lis
mm
These make very accept
able and pretty gifts. We
have a large assortment, in
all slseg and heights, from
the plain to the very ela
borate carved ones, both In
the red and black teak
wood. Teak wood tabirelfl
from $11 tO $48
Teak-Wood C7 JfJ n ten
Pedestals, from,., I.I J IU JJV
Real India Seats, Imported kind, frame work. In
SiS&'US!.?.?..... $2.50 fach
LADIES' WORK TABLES
We have a very large assortment of these pretty
pieces in oak and mahogany, Freaeh. Col it. Ill
and antique designs, p)aln or richly carveJ.
ESsr.. $i u $39
PRINCESS DRESSERS
Thesa pretty pieces cm be ueed as a dresser,
dressing table and cheval dres.-lng glass. Very
pretty In design and In nil the neat, artlstlo
shapes. In oak, bird's eye maple and mahogany.
$23.50 $2J $25.50 $29 and $33
LADIES' DRESSING TABLES
Make a most pleasing and acceptable gift. Show
ing over ES patterns of dressing tables. In' all the
new styles, In oak, light and dark mahogany and
bird's eye maple, all highly piano polished, ranging
In price from
$9 $9.75 m $14.50
Up to the very fine, aoltd mahogany, UR1?
hand carved one at...,,...,...,.,..,...,
BRIC-A-HlUC
Btetne, from good old Heidelberg, all ptylei and
' 'oZ?.T.l,:e' 4UC to $15 Each
Huns: Ian l'oito-y all new art designs, cur own
ple'oes alike,' prlrt s from .
. $1.50 to $12 Each
imONZI-New pieces, busts and
ngurps.
L'U Issi n :e o tr own Importation,
see tr.e assortment from
50c up to $25
Tob-cco Jar new nsHJrtmnnt,
nil 1 eliiK rhown on first (lr Just
th- il.lns for your baclie.or
li I nr,
H'fket'', Il.mpsr., a new asuort
mrrit a, tle:n.
L-imis s-e our now clear glass
.a'tirt!, v:'iy new.
LACE CURTAINS
140.00 end fX. 00 Curtains
per pulr.
$3.rosiid $27 ZO Curtains
p-r pair ,
$2.. 00 mi l t 2.50 Curtains
per pair
$;'i.f0 tncl $'6.10 Curtains
per tair.,..
22.50
17 50
. 14.75
9.75
PILLOWS
70o
J1.45
(1.66
2t-ln.
86o
11.86
Our stock li complete you will find all qualities
end all sizes in our pillow department. We carry
thrpA r:uMtllffl on follows:
Sixes 16-ln. 18-ln. JO-ln. 2-ln
FEATHERS ... 450 60o
GRAY DOWN.... 4oo ?0o 11.00
WHITE DOWN.. C5c ll.CiO $1.35
PILLOW CORDS
All colors, In two qualities.
Morcerlacd cord, Vi-lnch, all Rf
colors, per yard ,JW
Silk Covered Cord, -lnch. 7Sc
all colors, per yard , ww
PILLOW GIRDLES
Threo yards long, with tassel on end, new and
etyllBh, for pillows, in three qualities, all colors
Mercerised cord and tassel, each 65o
Bilk Fancy Cord and Tassel, each 75c
611k, extra heavy, each S5c
COVERED PILLOWS
We always have a complete Una of ready made
pillows, all prices, new burnt leither pillows,
ilk pillows. Trices from
$1.50 up to $23 Each.
PILLOW TOPS
Just received, new shipment India print pillow
tops, all new styles, prices
33c SOc and 73c Each).
AH011CEMEN1.
We desire to call your attention to our holiday
Showing of Oriental Rugs it's a rug assor'mant
out of the usual. Great efforts have been put
forth to brinr out a more auberb showing of
Oriental Rugs than haa ever before been at
tempted In Onuha. In this we have succeeded,
as we have more than doubled the usual assort
ment for our holloay sale. This Is truly a mag
r.lflcent ihowlng nf Oriental Rugs of all kinds,
from tho emalleet to the largest, , and all In
between siaes In the less expensive rugs, aa well
as gems that will Interest the most exacting
connolseur.
We most cordially Invite your Inspection, of
these rug whether you Intend a purchase or
not, It will be '.istructive to you to view the beau
tiful colorings and designs In thla vast assort
ment of Oriental Rugs that we have brought out
for holiday sulo, ,
"Just As Welcome To Look
As To Buy." .
SALE COMMENCES
MONDAY, DEC. 7th.
DOMESTIC RIGS.
Make very aoc9ptable gl
this season a much brou
to choose. We have gat
and here you'll find A me
sixes, all kinds, ell qual
rabore haa there been
'.act rugs from the amal
large room alses.
fts. We can give you
der selection from which
hered a very choice stock
rlcan made ruga, )n all
Itles, all colorings never
better opportunity to -
lest door mat to the
MORRIS CHAIRS
What could you give a gentleman that would
be more acceptable, more comfortable, than a
cushion seat and back Morris ohalrT We are
showing a very large assortment of these popu
lar chitlrs In goMen and weathered oak, solid
mahogany, all hair filled, reversible cushions,
frames nre plain or richly carved, and they range
BSS"."..1?. $HiptoJ55
WEATHERED OAK PIECES
Suitable for the den, library, living room or re
reptlon hall. We are making a particularly large
showing of this very substantial, solid, almost in
destrructlMe furniture in card tables, taborets,
chairs, rockors, deiks, bookcases and cabinets.
Bome very choleo pjercs In comfortable chairs or
rockers, Bpanleh leather seat, . J lln
upliostered, at 9 1 'W
Toak!.T.".t.,!?!?.! . $2.50 lip
Magazine Stands and Cellerettea In large va
riety. We most cordially Invite your presence In our
weathered oak sWn.
CHILDREN S FURNITURE
We have not overlooked the little folks in pre
paring for our holiday furniture display. In this
section we have assembled a large variety of
chai.s. rockers, high dial re and youths' chairs,
seais ana laniee. ,
Children's Rocking Chairs, In
red or aolden oak finish, at
$1.50 and up to $6.50
"1.? BP tQ$4-50
Combined Baby Jumpere, Swinge and Chairs, In
Uj.ee patterns. JJ g grjfj $7
FANCY AND ODD CHAIRS
We have largely Increase our ahow room for
our holiday line of fancy and odd chairs. Special
attention has been given this season to collecting
a line of odd, substantial, comfortable pieces In
chuli a and rockers that are different from the Or
dinary. We are now shewing some very hand
some pieces In rattan, leather covered Roman seat
style, in suits, three pieces, and also separately
In chairs, rockers and settees. Borne very pretty
Colonial effects In odd chairs and rookers. also the
old-fauhloned ruth seat pieces. We invite your at
tention to this assortment and are sure that we
can please you, no matter what your wish may
ue m a rocxef or cntur-
.80C
Before I left Denver I understood still '
tnore clearly. The woman who had offered
to explain to me the nature of her dlfflcul
tiee In giving aid to those who needed aid '
told me a little concerning her work among
the poor ef the city! but It was principally
irum inner persuns ma( 4 isarnea now
faithfully and. against what odds, she la
bored. "You see." one of her frlende said
to ma, "she la handicapped all the while
by the prejudice of the people ehe trice to
help, Half the time she can use fqr their
benefit ehe haa to lake up in covering their
very natural suspicions aa to her possible
Ulterior object."
One day, when I waa calling upon a fam
ily living In the tenement district, tp whom
the woman who did charity work for (he
merf eaka of doing It had shown herlrelf
more than once a true friend, I aald to the
mother of the family, "Your friend la very
good to you. Isn't she?"
''Tee," egrsed the mother. "I don't Jest
see why she is, though," she added, In a
pusaled tone of voice; "she ain't runnln'
fur no office."
It la not too much to aay that had ahe
bea a candidate for any office the recipi
ent of her sweetly given assistance could
not have been persuaded to a belief In ita
elncere unselfishness. By making coin of
that moat lovely of a)! human vlrtuea,
charity! by regarding the rendering of
deeds of kindness as the spending of so
much coin for political support, women In
Penver, prominently engaged In polftlca,
have not only lowered their own standards;
they have also lowered the standards of the
less fortunate, the less protected women of
the tenements, who so sadly need, not only
eld which la not alf-seeklng, but, aa lead
ers In publio affaire, women whom they
may revere.
"One must secure votes," I wsa told
again and again by women In Penver to
whom I spoke regarding thle unlovely
method of securing even one vote. "Would
you have them bought with money T" I
wae frequently asked.
No other manner of obtaining the pollt-
.Ci,;:.,,,.
kaesfc
h 1 i
x 0)
. a
loal support of the poor waa even remotely
suggested. Ten yeara Is but a brief period
of lme. ferhapa at the end of twenty
yeara a pew method may ha evolved. To
day the lose favored women of Denver are
skeptical with regard to the slngle-mlnded-ness
of those more fortunate women who
offer them friendship; and of theee women
Who have help to give, many too many-
give It, aa their friends are the first t ad
mit, with dual motives. These women may
or may not have hurt the city of Denver
and the state of Colorado; but themselves
have they not wounded themselves very
deeply with the weapon which they.. have
Chosen to wield?
Also, by perverting the molt tender of
human feelings to a hard and practicable
political use, they have become (ess fitted
to guide the children growing to manhood
and womanhood In their stale. I waa pres
ent one day when a large grpup of children
learned an unconsciously taught political
lesson.
I waa visiting an orphan asylum In Den
ver, In company with many other persons.
Among these was a wpman deeply and un
selfishly concerned In publio charities. Am
we went Into one of the rooms In which
children pf various ages were gathered, ehe
Impulsively took a little fatherless and
motherleee baby q her arms and caressed
It, with tears in her eyes.
'How sweet she is with that baby I" I
aald to g woman standing near me. v
"Yes," (spiled the woman, with a sudden
accession of Interest and curiosity, "she Is.
And I hadn't supposed ahe va looking for
a pew offioei"
A number of older children were ao near
aa that they overheard these words. They
looked at the speaker, then at the woman
holding the baby; then they smiled knowingly.
Vntll I went to Colorado J had supposed
that, whether women should or should not
have the ballot, women who desired that
ballot desired It because with It they be
lieved they could he more efficient In publla
affairs than without It This I found to he
by no meana Invariably true of the women
suffragists whom I met Ja Colorado. I con
versed with one woman who has frequently.
both In her atate and elsewhere, been men
tloned to m. by prominent suffragists as
pne of the. national leaders la the move
ment. Bhe aald much that waa very Inter
eettng and clever regarding the equal euf
frags movement which ehe told me ehe re
garded as a "sacred cause." Knowing that
I was Interested In labor reforms, she re
counted to me the many ways In which
woman might employ ber ballot (n the In
terest of euch reforms. "Strikes, for ex
ample," ehe aald. "Had women in Penn
sylvania had the ballot, the coal strike
might have been avoided." '
The next day the newspspara bora head
lines announcing the strike at the smelting
works In Colorado City. immediately
went to Colorado City an4, through the
kindness of a school teacher made the ac
quaintance of the Wives ef several of the
strikers. Tbey were unanimous In declaring
that the votes of women In Colorado, what
ever euch votes might da la Pennsylvania,
bad in, no appreciable measure helped q
settle labor difficulties.
On of these women, whose husband waa
closely Involved la the strike, aaked him
to give me hie opinion of the matter. He
reflected for a moment, and then he ob
served, pointing out the window as he
apoke to the military encampment at the
foot of Pike's Peak- "Two hundred and
fifty aru.ed soldiers la canopln' out yonder;
there's a report that the strikers i goto
to blow up the ' smelters with dynamite;
there's a hint that Cripple Creek la aoln'
to Strike, too; the governor's romln', over
to arbitrate- Al) them things Is
hsppenifl', but how many wemen
has been ever from Denver to look
rotund and get ls.as on how tq vote
(0 aa to atop strikes? Tpers ain't been
one."
This ws his opinion gnd his entire
opinion. After giving It he went egMn
down to the village street, leaving me
lone With bis Wlfay
"8wna (f thl WWe (a PeVs .111
perhaps come later," I aald to her.
'She smiled 4 . trifle . cynically,, but said
nothing. I waa In Colorado City once
each day, and occasionally twice, during
that first distinctly exciting and gravely
Important week of the strike at the
smaltlng works. No women, came from
Denver,
Why do none of them" come?" I
asked the man who had ao succinctly
described the situation In Colorado City.
"They alrt't got no personal feeln
'bput H," he replied; "It'a too far off."
'It is In their own state," I returned.
"Eaph one; of then) can cast a vote af
fecting the entire state"
'Oh. yes," he assented; but that ain't
what they'd call a personal feelln'. It
don't touch them; It only conoerne us over
here."
When I suggested that . A personal
feeling In this very direction might not be
Impossible on the part of the women voters
in Denver, the wife of the striker aald
slowlyt "No; but It ain't probable.
Politics ain't run that way,"
"Not even when women are In them?"
I questioned.
''No," sad the woman.
"Wpmen don't change politics aa much
aa politics changes women," put In her
husband.
The longer I remained In Colorado, the
more truly did this remark seem to
describe the result )n that state of the use
of the ballot by women.
That large public affairs are considered
of moment by the women of Colorado la
Unquestionably true; hut that these women
are more absorbed In the ballot Itself
than in the publio service they may render
by meana of that ballot would, seem also
to be true. I found . that women In
Colorado accepted with difficulty, or not
at all, the theory that a woman could
poeeese en Interest In public problems with
out being also in possession of a desire
for the ballet. I discovered, too, that they
were disposed to repudiate the possibility
that American men who do not believe In
woman'a suffrage are not therefore un
interested In publio affairs, but are no less
anxious than American women who hold
that they are entitled to the ballot that
euch affair should be conducted honorably
and efficiently, and to the end qf secur
ing the greatest good to the greatest
number.
The campaign policy of even thoee
women who are regarded In Colorado ae
the most worthy, and who Indisputably
are the most Influential, representatives of
woman'a suffrage, Is but too evidently
marked by solf-lnterest. One woman
told me .frankly, when I asked her what
argument pr persuasion had Inspired
her to so fervent a faith In the efficacy
pf a vote, ''with a vote, a woman Is of
consequence In public affairs."
"Hut may she not be, even without a
vote?" I asked. "Oh, no doubt," returned
the suffragist, "but she doesn't reap any
personal good from It "
, Another woman, living In the tenement
district of Denver, who hud -been telling
me that she never had voted, end to whom
I had said, "having the ballot. -should
think It," replied consider It your duty to
use It.'t replied greedily: "Do yer think
I could git enough out o' uln' It ter pay
fur the bother I'd have doln' It?"
When I spoke of both these rlrcum
stances to a third woman, she said, with
a short laugh, "politics, my dear, are wt
conducted along altruistic lines" end
she quoted a remark to that effect made
by a well known Tammany man.
"But surely," I found myself replying
"the women qf Colorrdo are not In
Sympathy with Tsmmsny methods!"
"Most certainly not." she said hastily
Jude Jerome; do you regnrd , his
political theory and practice as so lark
Ing In sltniirm?"
"Jerome!" she rxrlsfmed. Impatiently
"He Is o extreme! And. bmldes." she
6d. "he Is so Mind to clvlora fri-t"
He don't see, that the rem!y New York
needs ts tba woman's ballot)'
t'ilut-" I began.
"Don't talk to me about William Travera
Jerome," she interrupted. "He bores me."
"I should think he would particularly and
especially interest women actively engaged
in politics," I could not forbear adding.
"No one opposed to the ballot Interests
women who are In favor of the ballot I"
was the rejoinder.
Not the battle, not the battlefield, but
the weapon, la the chief subject under
discussion unceasing discussion among
women In Colorado. The ballot le ueed
indeed as a weapon, of defense personal
defense; and of attack even more acutely
personal attack. Into every incident, howr
ever slight, It enters. Sometimes the
entrance haa a diverting quality.
One of the' very few amusing things
Which happened to me while I waa In
Colorado occurred In this connection. One
day, aa I wae about to buy a ticket from
Denver to Coloradq Springs, two ardent
women suffragists whom I had, qiet
chanced to enter the railway atatlon. They
kindly recommended to me two respective
routes, dwelling upon the comparative
plcturesquences pf eaph In such glowing
words that ! hesitated (n my attempt to
make a satisfactory choice between auch
an embarrassment of ecenlp riches. '"Mad
am," said the ticket agent, in a voice
which betrayed a background of many
a curbed Impulse of exasperation, "if you
spend much more time deciding which of
these two trains yon will take, you, won't
have any time left in which to take either
of them!"
When I repeated thl to my two coun
selors, they exclaimed In one breath:
lie wouldn't have dared tq aay that to
us)"
Why not ?" I aakedaa they expected.
'Because wo have the ballot, and cpuld
revenge ourselvest"
Whether that ticket agent surmised tnat
I had pot the ballot, and could not reve'nge
myself, I do not know; but I do know that
he waa the only ticket egent In the Tnited
States whom I found guilty of rudeness.
I cannot censure him very severely; the
waving of the ballot la not exgotly an
Incentive to suavity,
To the end of vindicating her right to the
ballot and of assisting woman In other
states to secure a similar political privil
ege, more than one woman whom I met In
Colorado felf Justified In pslng very strange
RELIGIOUS.
Viae Alice N. Hall, a graduate of Mount
Holyoke eollege, and who holds amaster a
degree from Oberlln, hae been elected aa
sistant pastor of the Congregational church
in Fond du Lac, Wis,
Rev. Robert Johnson, D, D of Boston
has acecpted a eal to the American Pres
byterian church In Montreal, which Is the
only Presbyterian church In the Dominion
that has not Canadian affiliations.
Rev. W. A. Jones of the Presbyterian
church at Knoxvllle, Pa., has tefused a call
to East IJverpool at an Increase of salary
amuuntlng to 11,200 a year, and hie con.
gregatlon has voted h'rn the most excep
tional clergyman In the Keystone state
Miss Edna Hall, a talented woman
of Quthrle, Okla., has entered the Quaker
ministry and has accepted a call to the
Church at Liberty, In Woods county, her
territory. For some time she has been
Snder the tutelage of Mrs. William M.
enklns, wife of Oklahoma's ex-governor,
and herself a Quaker minister.
Rev. Dr. John Habersham Elliott, for
thirty-four years rector of the Pro-Cathedral
Church of the Ascension at Washing
ton, haa been relieved of his charge at
his own request. Failing health Is the
reason given for Dr. Elliott's retirement.
The vestry of the church paid him the
unusual compliment of electing him rec
tor emeritus for life,
Rev. O. P. Brlsco, clergyman of St.
Benet'a Kentish Town, England, receives
but a pittance fur hie services, and. In
order to obtain meana whereby he might
QUAKER
MAID
RYE
maintain the dignity of hie position he
'a 10 taxe in waanini
gravee. For pursuing these unci
Ing and dl((
ncierlcul oi:-.
bis
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ft h?pAX'mte';;y.
eupations he has been censured by
ecciewusucai superiors,
The pastor of the Amyand Baptist chapel
at Twickenham,' England, Rev. Henry
Bmlth, Is a negro born in the southern
states, but educated In Europe, and well
educated, speaking French fluently and an
accnmnllshd slnvfir a fact of sreat value
to him In the evangellatlo work tie bus
carried on In England and the Channel
Islands. He is a man of fine persona)
appearanoe, but shows his race. When he
took charge of the church a few months
ago a reception wae given him, at which
not only the Bapttsta, but Anglicans, Pres-
n
d
Bishop Thomas bowmsn of East Orange,
N. J., the oldest Methodist Episcopal
bishop, Just past his stith , birthday,
says that he warned President Lincoln
against John Wilkes Booth five days be
fore the emancipator wae elaln. Mr. Lin
coln made light of the wanting. Bishop
Bowman, then chaplain of the United
States senate, had observed Booth nrowl-
-Ing about the capltol and the White Houne
ana er onoe caneu on tne presiaeni witn
a warning. Mr. Lincoln smiled kindly
and said he did not think anyone wanted
to kill him. Two days later Mr. Bowman
started for his home In Bt. IxjuIs and
hud hardly reached there when news of
Delightful gs a
B.vsiaae.
Htslthfal as a
Tpslc.
For aale at the laaeV
lag bare, tales and
druo stores.
S. HIRSCH & CO,
Kiuki CJtr, It
yterlans, Congregstlpnellsta and JU.lho
Ists were present. ,
means. One woman, who. In the strongest j h assassination arrived.
terms, had made to me several statements ;
In regard to conditions In Denver, which
statements I afterward found to be Incom- :
plete, replied, when I ssked her why ehe I
had not more fully described to me the mat-
terg In question, "Could I he expected tq
give you eo excellent an argument against
the cause for which I stand?" Truly, aa
had been told ' In Colorado City, women
change polltlps leas than politico change
women.
An earnest advocate pf woman'a suffrage,
to whom very recently I waa telling aome
thing of these things In connection with .
the use of the ballot by women In Colorado, '
assured me that the principle underlying
the question wae not thereby affected. If
It be true that suffrage la one of the nat
qra rlgttg of every human being, then Its I
abuse In particular Instances does not
make It less unalienable a right. If, on the
other hand, It be true that the ballot Is a
political expedient, It becomes a menace
when It la used to the 111 of the state or of
the Individual.
However suffrage may be regarded as an
abstract problem, It a pot to be denied
that In Colorado Ita use by women has.
Whatever eho it may have done or failed
to de, brought grave disaster upon thoee
women- The possession of the ballot and
the employment of that possession have
hurt the woman of Cplorado aa women can
least afford to be hurt. Her Ideals have
been lowered; the delicacy of her perception
of right and wrong has been dulled. What
ever good she may be able to render to her
state end to the nation by her vote, can
that good, however great, compensate fur
the Injury which she haa wrought to that
state gad to the netlua by reason of ths
blow ahe haa dealt ber 00 womanhood?
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