boring
States. I predict that in ten years, instead of four suffrage
States, we shall have twice as many--perhaps three or four times
that number.

REPRESENTATIVE SHAFROTH: I want to say this, as coming from
Colorado: The experience we have had ought to demonstrate to
every one that woman suffrage is not only right but practical. It
tends to elevate. There is not a caucus now but is better
attended and by better people, and held in a better place. I have
seen the time when a political convention without a disturbance
and the drawing of weapons was rare. That time is past in
Colorado, and it is due to the presence of women. Every man now
shows that civility which makes him take off his hat and not
swear, and deport himself decently when ladies are present.
Instead of women's going to the polls corrupting them it has
purified the polls. Husband and wife go there together. No one
insults them. There are no drunken men there, nothing but what
is pleasant and decorous.

Woman is an independent element in politics. She has no
allegiance to any party. When a ticket is presented to her, she
asks, "Are these good men?" A man is apt to say, "Well, this is a
bad ticket, but I must stand by my party." He wants to keep his
party record straight. She votes for the best man on the ticket.
That element is bound to result in good in any State.

People say they don't know how it will work; they are afraid of
it. Can it be that we distrust our mothers and sisters? We shall
never have the best possible government till women participate in
it.

SENATOR CANNON: No nation can exist half slave and half free. Ten
years before I was old enough to vote, my mother was a voter. I
learned at her knee to vote according to my conscience, and not
according to the dictation of the bosses. The strongest argument
for the suffrage of any class exists in behalf of womankind,
because women will not be bound by mere partisanship. If the
world is to be redeemed, it must be by the conscience of the
individual voter. The woman goes to the truth by instinct. Men
have to confer together and go down street and look through
glasses darkly. The woman stays at home and rocks the cradle, and
God tells her what to do. The suffrage never was abused by women
in Utah. During