aner, better home for their families. Their work receives
added encouragement from the knowledge that by their ballots
they may determine who shall make and administer the laws under
which their children must be reared. The home has always been
conceded to be the woman's kingdom. In the free States she has
but expanded the walls of that home, that she may afford to the
inmates, and also to those who unfortunately have no other home,
the same protection and loving care which was formerly limited to
the few short years of childhood passed beneath the parental
roof.

SENATOR TELLER: I want to indorse what has been said by the two
members from Colorado and Wyoming. The former is rather young as
a suffrage State, but we are living side by side with the latter,
where they have had equal suffrage for nearly thirty years. The
results of woman suffrage have proved entirely satisfactory--not
to every individual, but to the great mass of the people: I hear
it said in this city every day that if women are allowed to vote
the best women will not take part. I want to say to you that this
is a mistake. To my certain knowledge, the best women do take
part. When I went back to Colorado, after the granting of equal
suffrage, a prominent society woman, whom I had known for years,
telephoned me to come up and speak to the ladies at her house. I
found her big parlors full of representative women--the wives of
bankers, lawyers, preachers--society women. If you put any duty
upon women they are not going to shirk it. Those who feared the
responsibility are now as enthusiastic as those who had been
"clamoring" for it. In the past, women have had no object in
studying political questions; now they have, and they are taking
them up in their clubs. We find that women are less partisan than
men. Why? Because they generally have more conscience than men.
They will not vote for a dissolute and disreputable man who may
happen to force himself on a party ticket....

We are an intelligent community; we have long had a challenge to
our fellow-citizens to show any other city that has as large a
proportion of college graduates as Denver. Colorado people are
proud of equal suffrage. The area where it prevails spread last
year and took in Utah and Idaho. It will take in more neigh