THE OMATIA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 190&
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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. During this campaign
much literature was sent out and consider
able of It found Its way to the asylum in
question, with th reult that th Inmates
went politically mad and rarely failed to
take advantage of any opportunity to talk
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drawn.
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hi fre silver idea, anyhow," answered
the driver.
"There ain't, ain't LrT Wei', read that
and see." acd down cam the first battle.
TUi occasioned a tosubcr af feiad. to
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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.
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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,
