Excerpt from Measuring Up Equal Suffrage

It has been one of the great bells that has aroused Colorado to the work of flushing filth from its politics, bettering economic conditions, mitigating the cruel ties of industrialism, promoting equal and exact justice, and making for a more wholesome and expansive environment. To these ends, in the short space of sev enteen years, it has aided in placing a score of needed laws on the statute books. It has raised new standards of public service, of political morality and of official honesty. It has helped to lift the curse of corporation control from the government. It has gone far to bit and bridle the lawless liquor interests. It has made for a fuller, finer participa tion in public affairs, and by the intro duction of a distinctly independent ele ment into partisan politics, it has com pelled the adoption of progressive plat forms and the nomination of bettercandidates than the old way ever knew.

If the reform were pinned down to a specific result, and discussion limited to one concrete outcome, equal suffrage could well afford to rest its case on the findings of the inter-parliamentary Union. This globe-circling organization of men and women, who play important parts in the public affairs of their va rious countries, is on record as declaring that Colorado has the sanest, the most humane, the most progressive, most scientific laws relating to the child to be found on any statute books in the world. And of these laws which drew such praise from impartial sociologists, -, not one but has come into operation since Colorado's adoption of equal suffrage in 1893; not one but owes either its incep tion or its success to the voting woman. Even in those cases where the law was not originated, not specifically cham pioned by them, they elected the official responsible for the law, and whose can didacy had its base in revolt and reform.

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