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THE OMATIA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 190& 15 WOMAN'S PLACE IN COLORADO Answer to tha Article Written on Suffrage bj E iiibs h VoCracken. per cent of Colorado women perform their own domestic duties than it the cut and the car of children l Ini f requntly delegated." lira. Hilen Campbell, who spent three yean In lsnver, aaya of equal u IT roue: 'Before I went to Colorado I was Dot Sure of the expediency of woman suffrage. BALLOT HAS NOT W0RKE0 fOR HARM I am now .uro that It I. a good thing for bo in mea ana women." A. It AsTeeta Hotherhaaa. Mix UcCracken assert that In con sequence of having- the ballot, Colorado women "hare become less fitted to guide the children (rowing; to manhood and womanhood." Mra. Helen Campbell tells an Incident illustrating- the contrary. Bh DUNKIRK. H. T., Dec la To the Editor I says: of Tbe Bee: There la a story of a Spaniard "One wise mother has been training her who visited the United Btate. from I five aons for years to understand public island where there were no railroads and all questions. She has had a weekly clasa of freight had to be carried over the moun- I about thirty boya, her sons and their tains on the backs of burros. He stood and achool and college mates, and she has watched with Interest the trains on one taught them not only current events, but of our railroads, the first he had ever seen, the duties of cltlsenship, and what a rote and finally turned away, saying, with calm stands for and how precious It is. Her and Immovable conservatism: "Burros are eldest son cast his first vote at the last Mara Bvldeaea te Prove that the. Right ta Vat Has Rot Eser elsed Amy Baa EaTeet aa the Won. better!" Elisabeth McCracken has made a visit to presidential election. He went with his mother. There were tears In his eyes as Colorado, and declares that for women he said to her: 'If there is any good or votes are not nearly so good as "Indirect noble thought In my mind about this act Influence." Bhe devotes a long article In of cltlsenship, it came from you in the ba ths Outlook to the effort to prove that "In ginning. I am glad to be here with you.' Colorado the use of the ballot by women I have not seen just that feeling of sons has brought grave dlraster upon those towards their mothers anywhere else." woman." Miss McCracken mentions lncl- Hon. Hugh 11. Lusk of New Zealand dent&Uy that her stay In Colorado was says be has often thought It a pity that measured only by weeks. Moreover, she a son should so often lose his mother's neglects to give the name of even one of mental companionship and her Influence the men or women who, as she alleges, I when he growa to manhood. Just the time told ber things bearing unfavorably upon I when he needs them most, and Mr. Lusk equal suffrage la that state. Thus she fur- added that one of the pleaaanteat results lushes the reader no means of verifying of equal suffrage In New Zealand was the correctness of any of ber statements, that the enfranchised mother now con But we will consider them for what they Unuea to share her son's thoughts and may be worth. I Interests after he becomes a voter. In the first place. If the ballot baa I If equal suffrage had seriously Injured brought "grave disaster" upon the women I women's characters, the ministers would af Colorado, It Is a little odd that these would have oeen likely to find It out. Mr. women themselves should not be aware of Amos II. Wells, editor of the Christian It. Eastern opponents of equal rights have Endeavor World, the organ of the Chris generally claimed that they are aware of tlan Endeavor societies, wrote. to twenty It; that the majority of Colorado women five ministers of four denominations, resi ar now tired of suffrage. Miss McCracken dent in the equal suffrage atatea, choosing on the contrary says: their names at random among his sub- "I found that women In Colorado ac-1 scrlbers. He asked them whether equal cwpted with diffluulty or not at all the I suffrage was working, well, fairly well or theory that a woman could possess an in- badly. One answered that It was working terest Ic publlo problems without a desire U-dly, three that It was working fairly for the ballot They were disposed to re- well, and tbe twenty-one others were posl- pudl&te the possibility that American tive and emphatic In saying that it was men who do not believe In woman suffrage working well. Practically all of these re anxious 'that publlo, affairs should be I ministers agreed that the exercise of the conducted honorably and efficiently, and I suffrage was not corrupting to women, ta the end of securing the greatest good I One of them mentioned that there were soma, bold and brazen schemers among the women politicians, but he added: "! knew to the greatest number.' Exact E Sleet of Ballot.. In other words, through practical ex- many of them before they had a vote. They are no better, nor worse, than be- pertenbe they have coma to look upon It I . . , ' """" almost as an axiom that woman', ballot U . J"d!" mo a power on the aide of good government; the.. diLM. . . f m" l anVthey find It hard to believe that either "d T'T 7 wen or women can really desire good gov- paTt cLrZT that their un- .mm.nl who do not believe In equal T' CreUt'c" suffrage. This 1. a highly significant ad- 1' T.?. k.? , But ' mU"t hav mission. Mis. McCracken'. compliment 1. TliTillf Tt !STT not that Colorado women do not believe In know . k W'. taTt " .dual suffrage, but that they believe In It ' k"Wat .w'th0Ut. hv,n- to too fervently. Of one woman ah. says: BS??ito , Wr- Well, laid "Political power had Intoxicated her; .he hZ "7 "T". " lT 07 ' 07 u a .A K. I ws C.WUUOU Lei io ma IflCI an exhilarating Indulgenca. Ta, .. .r. r .h., In the ballot Itself than I .. . uuuam, ana made - i mom better ntta in k.. .. . .. .-. .KM,. thov vrmxr ranAar kv I - - " "If meir CIUl ' i dren. Ha uict i .... mean, of that ballot.- ...ff T" JTTl u" " man When an eastern anU-.uffraglst comes I hu77r:..ZZT-l". T. "i""181. ..nrmv Cnltvarin women aueatlanlna- them 1 " ior Ul motber. I vi me repuolla. t " "srlal Coadltloa.. aomewhst warm In its defence, especially I us Mccracken say. that woman am tn view af the monstrous lie. that have I P'oyed In Denver .tore, are traatad wail lieen circulated In eastern paper, about I but that they are treated eouallv wall -woman's ballot In Colorado., But, except I m Tork, Boston aad Chicago, that In when called upon -to argue with an "anU," I -oiuraao tne UnprovemenU desired -Xor It la not likely that tke abstract question I Utm have been .toured by the ballot, and of equal suffrage engrosses their whole at- I ln aastera cities by "Influence;' and that tentloo, after they have had the ballot for I innuenca baa been "quite as effective and ten years. If they do still "revel" in It aa I more than a little less rasping." 8hesaya: aa "exhilarating Indulgence, " It 1 a pity I ''Merchants ln New York, Boston and that they cannot inruse soma or uveir en- nave not only agreed without 1U thuslaam for clvlo duties Into-the apathetic feeling or resistance ta ordinances better male citizen, of Philadelphia and other ln the condition of their employes, but eastern cities, who can hardly be bounded have tn many case, been foremost ln aug out to vote. , gesUng and assisting these and other re- Mlse McCracken assert, that the exer-1 formers. Why might not this have ha d- clse of the suffrage has greatly damaged I pened In Denver r the character of Colorado women. Their I In Boston It has cost year, of struggle to husband, and fathers do' not seem to have I secure tha carrying out even of the ordl- found It out. During the ten years since I nance requiring that saleswomen be fur equal suffrage was granted the opponents I Dished with seats. There has been great kave failed' to find ln al Colorado ten re- J resistance to it. The head of a prominent .peclable men .who assert over their own I dry goods firm on Winter street put ln the names that women', character, have de-1 seats, but announced that any girl 'who terloratcd. - Ten j ears, a. Mies Mccracken I sat down on one would be discharged, and "lays. Is a' short time. But In Wyoming I he kept his word. In New Tork. accord- women have had the fujl ballot for thirty- I Ing to what the secretary of the Consumers' four years. For more than fifteen years league told me this summer, the conditions the suffragists Jiava had a standing chal-1 are far from Ideal. In Chicago the papers lenge. Inviting tbe opponents to find In all I not long' ago reported that a committee Wyoming two respectable men who will as-I of club women Investigating the sweat art over their own hsmes and addresses shops where women worked found the aur- that It has Injured women's characters, or rounding so unsanitary and the air so had any other bad resuJts. The opponent, foul that one of the committee fainted and have thus far failed to respond end this had to be carried out. improvements are despite the fact that In Massachusetts and I being made, but when Mis. McCracken says New , Tork, active anti-suffrage assocla-I that In the nonsuffrage states they .have tlon. have been for year, diligently gather-! been accomplished "without .lll-feellng or Ing all the adverse testimony they could I resistance,'' aha shows an entire lack of nd. Wasaasi Baa Hot tasTered. acquaintance with - the facta. It Is also noted that the women who have been most President filocum ef Colorado college ctlv la Betting these Improvements in says the chargee that the ballot has In- Eastern clUes do not at all believe that Jured women', character, are not only thJr can be secured better without the, bal- untrue, but too absurd for serious discus sion. He adds: "Woman suffrage has brought a great Infusion of conscience, Into lot. In Boston, Mrs. Fanny B. Ames, for mer factory Inspector; in New York, Mra Nathan, president of ..the consumers' publlo affairs." The social science section na in cmcago. jane Addams, all of the Woman's club, of Denver, which I believe that Influence backed by the ,bal dumber about 1,000 members and includes, t can do far more than Influence alone. the most highly respected women of the I Kills. Meredith, one of the brightest news city, appointed a committee to su.wer I PPr wonun of Demer, wrote to the similar charges made by an anonymous I woman a Journal in lilO: correspondent In an eastern paper. The I "Any one who cares to investigate the committee drew up a reply strongly deny- I conditions in the stores of Denver now, end Ing that there had been any bad results I ho was familiar with them tun years ago. whatever and giving a long list of specific I wlH discover that there has been a wonder. benefits, and the report was adopted by I tut change. - Most of these concessions are a unanimous vote. I recent. On store gives every woman two The good effect of the responsibilities of I daya a month at homo on pay; another bat cltlsenship on Colorado women haa been I a achool for the boy. and girls employed acknowledged even by men who were not there, and supplies a rack where all bicycles enthusiastic about any other aspect of J are checked by a boy employed for that equal suffrage such, for Instance, aa Mr. I purpose. A few weeks ago, when the que- John Cotton Dana. I tlon of a consumers' league was brought vp Mrs. Helen Gilbert Ecob, whose husband I a the Woman's club of Denver, a commit Was for years a pastor In Denver, writes: i tee was appointed to Investigate the condl. ' "The true teat of equal auffrage in Col- I tlon of employes, mort especially women orado la the womanhood developed by It. I employes, in Denver stores, as to wages. The women of Colorado are as modest aa I Ones, hours, holiday a, aeata behind n un those of conservative atatea Various the- 1 ters. equal pay for equal work without cls- orles to account for their Intellectual ac- I crimination of sex. sanitary condition. tlvlty and breadth of thought have been 1 etc. The committee reported that in moat offered. Some say that the ozone of the 1 of the stores not only were the laws corn Borkles vitalises the mental as well a I plied with, Jut employers had voluntarily tha nlivsli-al cowora. With uunl ludriH I done more for employes than the laws re al 1 thft Intellectual activity was turned I Quire. This is not saying that there are no Immediately Into p actloal endeavor for tbe abuses tn Denver stores, but the trend Is regeneration of eodety and atate. Where distinctly upward. The moment sex dls- other women are studying effete literature Unctions are eliminated from our ininda, or pink teas, these women are studying and we try to be just, tke race la uplifted. the new primary law or the city charter. I When we are Just we have reached th Social formalities which elsewhere con- I point where we shall shortly begin to be sums a large amount of time and strength I generous. sre. by common consent, relegated to the I Hep Charity Works. background. A common purpoae obliterates I The owner of a shop In Denver quoted by th cruel social destructions of fashionable I Miss McCracken who "could scarcely speak life and promotes comradeship between all I of the part taken by women In Initiating ciassrs or intelligent women. Here one I labor reforms In that city without Irrita may see ths cultured daughter of th mult- millionaire in hoi ett and thorough co-operation wills th daughter of her laundreaa. Gosalp and trivial conversation find no tlon." was probably not one of these who had voluntarily done all the law required! Miss McCracken asserts that charity la Denver is pecu'iarly hard, because poor place In this larger life. Entrance upon women suspect sny woman who helps them a-1 I1" fld of political life has broad- I of wanting an mce; that womea have lost enefl .tier Interests J that she Is more I their Influence, end "lowered their Ideals. etoipazilor.aL'.e to her husband and longer I retain the confidence of her son. Nowher Mrs. Sarah Matt Decker of Denver, wh has been chairman of the State Board of are mothera found w.th hither ideal con- j Charities, has not observed that women' cert li.g th rearing of children, both In the I charity work Is made harder by their hv Luiue aad In the schoolroom, A greater lug the biU.ot, or tLat they have lost thetr lost their consciences. Bhe Influence or writes: "1 do not hesitate to say that the best women of Colorado have far more con science In exercising their reKporuiibllltles aa voters than the men of the same class. It la also true that women of standing In the community have great Influence. There a splendid womanly Independence In being a voting citizen, and there is a much more chivalrous devotion and respect on tha part of men, who look upon their sisters not as playthings or a. property, but as equal, and fellow citizen.." Miss McCracken says: "No other man ner of obtaining the political support of the poor (except by being kind to them with Interested motives) was even re motely suggested." Msny Colorado women besides Mrs. Ecob have described at length the work that the better Informed women do to teach the lees Informed about public flairs, the many clubs and classes they conduct, etc. Mrs. Helen Campbell says: "The best women are everywhere those who are moat Interested and active. One charming, sweet-voiced woman, whom everybody liked, devoted herself to hnue- to-house visiting among ' the Hungarian Italian and German women, explaining to them the meaning of a vote, and holding classes for them. A number of theee women have joined the League for Publlo Beauty, and are working In it. Equal suf frage has led to such a comradeship be tween rich and poor women as I have'l never seen elsewhere." Miss McCracken says: "The delicacy of her (the Colorado woman's) perception of right, and wrong has been dulled." Miss Margaret Long, daughter of ex-secretary of the navy, lived for three year. In Colo rado. She says: "The women of Colorado are a power In state politics. They always cast their vote, for the candidate of high est principle and best moral character. The women who vote ln Colorado are th educated and refined women, and they, with many men who originally voted against equal suffrage, admit that it 1. a uccess." Seme Imnatirt Conclusion. Miss McCracken say. equal suffrage has tended to make Colorado politic, "hyster ical," Columns of testimony could be given showing that It ha. made primaries and conventions more quiet and orderly. Finally, Miss McCracken accuses some of the women of Colorado of having made to her "Incomplete statements," giving only part of the facts, and omitting the other part, because it might have been an argument against equal suffrage. But she Is In no position to throwetones. Hor own article, whatever else It may be or may not be, I. egregious! y one-sided. Ac cording to her own account, most of the women whom she met In Colorado were ardent suffragists almost rabid ones. They must certainty have told her some rood things about suffrage In Colorado. But she ha. suppressed all .these, and has given only ths bad things. The policy of the Outlook on this question has been nothing if not one-sided. Borne time sgo. Miss Emily BlFsell made a brief visit to Colo rado, and wrote for the Outlook, an arti cle on equal suffrage In that state, which contained serious errors of fact She as serted, for Instance, that there were no women on the Denver school board, when there were; and that equal suffrage had led to no legislation ln favor of social purity,' although tha first bill Introduced by a woman member of tha Colorado leg islature and passed, was the bill raising tha 'age of protection for girls to Is. Tet It was with the utmost difficulty that women of standing In Colorado obtained pace In the Outlook to correct these glaring mis-statements. Mis. McCracken'. article will undoubtedly call out Indignant denial, from Colorado. But, while Dr, Lyman Abbott has granted seven and a half page, to a causal tourist to set forth her unfavorable impression, ot equal suf frags ln Colorado, it may be doubted If be will grant half a. much space to re spectable resident, of Colorado to set forth olid facta on the other aide. Such article, as Mis. McCracken'. are valuable, however, because they always call out emphatic testimony from Colorado men and women to the - good result, of equal suffrage, and other papers will print It, even if the Outlook doe. not. Mean while a recent bit of statistic may enable us to judge bow far the characters of Colorado women have been depraved by the ballot. The Colorado Equal Suffrage association a few day. ago celebrated the tenth anniversary of the granting of the ballot. On of the speaker, waa ax-Governor Adams. He said among other things: The (weetnesa of woman haa not been lost, her character has not been tainted, her nature not changed. Our experiment ha. brought good to man, and no harm to woman. There are only six women ln tha penitentiary, and 000 men." ALIC3 BTONB BIACKWELL STCuSES FRCli TKE STATE HOUSE Speaking of asylums, an etcap and cap ture of an Inmste at one of the Insane In stltutlons recently is good enough to tall about Th heroine ot the story was not an Incurable by any means and to a oer tain extent she had the run of tha hoiue. She had a longing to get away, though. and managed to steal the key to the fir escape door. This she secreted until night. then unlocked tbe door, walked out and down the step, locking tha door after ber. Bhe reached town without Incident, went to a hotel and engaged a room. Tbe clerk remarked that .it was cus tomary for persons without baggage to pay In advance. The woman stopped a moment. then a thought struck her. This was ber undoing. Che went to the telephone and called up tha asylum. 'This Is Mrs. Blank. I am down at hotel and want you to send my trunk down right away, for I have no money to pay my room rent" The superintendent recognised the voice and the name only too well, and ha hastily aummoned an assistant while be argued with the woman, securing a description of the trunk, the room and such like. By this time th assistant was well on ths road to the hotel In a buggy aad tha woman began to get tired of tha talk. Then the superintendent began to argue about who was to pay for hauling the trunk down. This he kept up until he heard a amoothered exclamation and the voice ceased. He knew th assistant had grabbed the woman. He bad, and all she aald or did waa to grin. And that reminded another state officer of another asylum story that isn't so awful bad. This one happened during the second Bryan campaign. As Is generally known. Inmates of asylums are great readers and devour everything they can get tn the book and paper line. 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These machines have been thoroughly overhauled and are guaranteed in perfect condition. The usual agent will sell them for new. "We do the sewing machine business of Nebraska," Call or write. NEBRASKA CYCLE CO., Phono 1663. GEO. E. 171ICKEL. Manager. Cor. 16th and Harney. 334 Broadway, Council Bluffs. 612 No. 24th tit., So. Omaha. 'Phono B6I8 'Phono 4365 pok. op against tba bars of other window "I should say thera ain't nothing to Bryan," roared another. "Read that If you don't bellev It." And a bundl of re publican literatur was fired at th grin ning driver. "Ingersoll Is th only man." yelled an other. "Read that." And down cam a bunch of papers. Other Inmate, war at tracted to th window, of their room, and a perfect shower of papers war flrel at tha driver, with tha result that th Id mates tot worked up into a frensy, and It took aa employ an hour to clean th yard. Now that Crawford Kennedy has got oa th Washington pay roll. It la perfectly proper that fa should gat ln th story column, so a slat hous attach baa started this on: . For several years Ken nedy was th. general oustodlaa and main relianc of th Stat oommlttc room, la th Liadall hotel, and was probably as .well knewn as Chairman Lindsay or any on else who frequented th rooms. H assisted Mr. Undsey and Secretary Allen and not Infrequently b algnad bis awn nam to letters sent out by th commute. This fact, however, evidently was not known to Judge Paul Jeaaen, whom the republicans and f unionists fought to elect out ln the Second district. The office force during the lato campaign' was working day and nlghc sending out reminders that contributions would be gladly received. One was sent to Judge Jsmkji and th name of Kenned was attached. The anawer, when it came, so the attache said, contained this startling statement: "I don't mind sending th remittance, but who ln the h 1 Is Crawford Kennedy?" In the war department of thn state house the other day they were telling stories of war time, and one of them about two Nebraakans I good enough to be repeated. The man la question, however, are almost prominent enough to go befor th grand jury, and that attention might not b drawn Jo them th names ar omitted. It was at th battle of Bhlloh. th old Midler said, and thing were coming the union wsy with tu b regularity that It was uncomfortable. On of th Nebraakans remarked: "I gueaa w had better pray, hadn't wr "Not yet," answered the other. "Wait a while." Ia a few minutes the same question and answer was ex changed. It finally leaked out that No. 1 was a Methodist, and they always kneel down to pray, and No. S was a Presbyterian, who alway. pray .tandlng. No. L ao th soldier aald, was standing la plain sight and No. t was somewhat screened. liar is another wartime story that wa. told at the ft it he us this week, and though it reflects somewhat oa a Mis souri an. It .otably has never been pub lished. OIUt uuiW General Wad, la tL PhUippI::, were sudng their best v- desvors to get the native, to surrender, and they- were offering as an Inducement that they would not be prosecuted. Under such conditions. Colonel Gucberra of tbe Philippine army cam to a captain of a company and informed blm that he wanted to a General Wade. Th general received him, and through an interpreter he offered to see that the man would not be molested by the authorities if he would surrender. The general and others were startled when the r.a'lve suddenly shrugged hi shoulders and exclaimed In EnglUh: "I'm from Missouri." And he repeated that every tlm th general made blm a promts. Finally th. general wanted th phraa explained, and h was told. . It was learned afterwards that a Mis souri! had deserted and had been among th catlv troops. From him the colonel had learned hie only English, and that happened to be Mlsaourlan. LA HOR AID UDliTHT. The use of electrical power on th New Tork elevated railway haa reduced th per centra of expense to earnings from U per cent to 42 per cent. In th fire? half of 1903 America sold In Germany nil 1 ton of whet. xiti.Slii tens of corn, S7.wj8 ton of petroleum and IC2.7! tuna of raw cotton. Th rapid rise of labor unionism In America in triced by W. Z. hi.Ky, pro fi' of economic at Harvard. Whll katfiiah uiuii bat tacirtim d, in niu tera, from I.oum aju to l..tAi, thus feY' In ilU1 slu gruou iieui fruiiuj IJ 1000 0CO. The cauae. for this growth have been In th mala proaperlty, for trust or combination Idea, the coal atrlk and th labor movement's natural growth. Th number of cotton spindles In th principal countries of th world 1 a fol lows: Great Britain, 47.uuO.0Ou; continent of Europe, M.OOO.OoO; United State, north, 16.. (MJ.OuO; United States, south, 7.UOU,wO; East Indies, f.Ow.Ouo; Japan, l.SOU.uOC Ths big, red American appl haa long bean a fvorii with the people even In th remote regions of Germuny, whll the fin California dried fruit now for sal in very grocery Is Indispensable to th avarag household. Markneuklrehen. Germany, sold In th United Stale lust year i3T,(MJ worth of violin. tut.Ouu of bow, $00, uw of strings and t'.Sl.uw of accordion anil concertina. All th raw material for these article Is Im ported; tbe stock for strings all cornea from Jtuaala. One-twelfth of the estimated wealth ot the United State Is represented at a meet ing of the twenty-four directors of th United State Meel corporation, says World's Work. They reprcw-nt as influen tial diraciura more than 2u0 oilier com panlea. Tlieae ouinpanit-a operate nearly one half if the railroad mlRage of the United Btates. They ar the great miner and orrl-r of ciuu, This group Include almj olre' tor of flv Inxuranoe oominla, two of which have assets of t70u.iiuo.6. In the teel board ar men who speak for flv bank and ten trut companies In New York City. Including the rlrst National, tha National City and the Hank of Com merce, th three -reatet bank In the country, and the hd vt Important chain of hnancia.1 Institutions: for two banks end three trtivt romps ni-s In Plilifadelphia, for two bunks "nil two trut couipanle In ChlaK". 1"T on bank and tw trout com. UtnUa lu xioaiou ai! (or one t-rk and on truat C4-iutxiiy In ll't' utr beaiues bank ihg UuLituuous la anAurr cllu,