Show colorados equal suffrage colorado ladies have taken occasion to reply 10 the carping critics of the east who are making sport of equal suffrage in the centennial state the reply is in the form of a newspaper article signed by the officers of the colorado equal suffrage association and some telling points are made the ladies confess that no anal good has resulted aiom equal suffrage in that state but they claim to see the good results of the system throughout the whole political fabric where three years ago there were but three prohibition cities in the state there are now twenty seven practicing it before equal suffrage men would hold their primaries in some precincts in saloons and even stables now such meetings convene in parlors and in other respectable buildings invariably being conducted with decorum A similar air of refinement is noticeable about the booths during election and where ladies mingle with male citizens in public office they unconsciously impress upon their associates a greater regard for the ameni ites of speech and conduct in support of that statement the officers of the colorado equal suffrage association point to the fact that the house of the state legislature where a few ladies hold seats ou the senate in serious decorum and legislative deliberation generally the senate is superior to the house there is also noticeable in the bills introduced by legislators since equal suffrage a general tendency toward reform and some laws for the betterment of the condition of womanhood have been passed wi es have been given equal rights with their hus bands in the possession of their chil dren and the legal protection ot girls has been raised to 18 years the ladies in office have shown themselves more economical than men and the lady chairman of the committee on printing has been getting printing of thelast legislature done for 2000 less than during any other session great praise is also given the lady superintendent erin of public instruction in that strain the ladies of colorado defend their suffrage and it is altogether a good showing while the contrast may not be quite ao great in utah between the former conditions of male suffrage and the present poll y of equal effrage rage still we believe that comans womans participation pation in politics is making our political gatherings a liitle more refined it is true that some of our headstrong women in office have made a spectacle of themselves not to their husbands and brothers and perhaps not pleasing to their own sex still time will teach even that class of women ahat in public they ought not to have their own way simply because they are females they seem to bo apt officers aside from their peculiar feminine eccentricities and are making good records in legislative work the age of consent has been raised hero the same as in colorado and other laws relating to women among them the anti high hat act have been passed |