of criminals, our
care of the deserving poor and the education of our young. Child
labor is prohibited. The Supreme Court has just decided that
every voter must be able to read the Constitution in English. We
have night schools all over the State for those who can not
attend school by day. Equal suffrage was given to help protect
the home element, and the home vote is a great conservative
force. Woman suffrage means stable government, anchored in the
steadfast rock of American homes.

Mrs. Conine was commissioned as a delegate to the convention by Gov.
Alva Adams of Colorado. She read the statement recently put forth,
testifying to the good results of equal suffrage and signed by the
Governor, three ex-Governors, all the State Senators and the
Representatives in Congress, the Chief Justice and the Associate
Justices of the Supreme Court, the Judges of the Court of Appeals, the
Judges of the District Court, the Secretary of State, the State
treasurer, auditor, attorney-general, the mayor of Denver, the
presidents of the State University and of Colorado College, the
president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs and the
presidents of thirteen women's clubs, and said:

During the session of the Legislature last winter, there were
three women in the House. We met the other members upon terms of
absolute equality. No thought of incongruity or unfitness seems
to have arisen, and at the same time those little courtesies
which gentlemen instinctively pay to ladies were never omitted.
Each of the ladies was given a chairmanship, one of them that of
the Printing Committee, and the printing bill was lower by
thousands of dollars than for any previous session. The women
were as frequently called to the chair in Committee of the Whole
as were the men. One of them was placed upon the Judiciary
Committee at the request of its chairman. Every honorary
committee appointed during the session included one or more of
the ladies.

Our State Federation of Women's Clubs now numbers about 100,
representing a united membership of 4,000. They are largely
occupied in studying social and economic questions, earnestly
seeking for the best methods of educating their children,
reforming criminals, alleviating poverty and purifying the
ballot; in short, striving to make their city and their State a
cle