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Parties refuse to nominate such men upon the distinct ground that
they can not obtain the women's vote.

The natural result of such conditions is to increase the respect
in which women are held, and not to diminish it. They are a more
important factor in affairs, and therefore more regarded. It is
generally conceded, I think, that women have a higher standard of
morality and right living than men. And, as they have a say in
public matters, it has a tendency to make men respect their
standard, and in some degree attempt to attain it themselves.

I have never been an enthusiastic advocate of woman suffrage as a
cure for all the ills that afflict society, but I give you in
entire candor my impressions of it from my observations in this
State.

In 1889, after women in Wyoming had very generally exercised the full
suffrage since 1869, Mrs. Clara B. Colby, editor of the _Woman's
Tribune_, Washington, D. C., compiled a report from the census
statistics. Those relating to crime, insanity and divorce were as
follows:

The population of the United States has increased in the last
decade 24.6 per cent. That of Wyoming has increased 127.9 per
cent. But while the number of criminals in the whole United
States has increased 40.3--an alarming ratio far beyond the
increase of population--notwithstanding the immense increase of
population in Wyoming, the number of criminals has not increased
at all, but there has been a relative decrease, which shows a
law-abiding community and a constantly improving condition of the
public morals. In 1870 there were confined in the jails and
prisons of Wyoming 74 criminals, 72 men and 2 women. The census
of 1880 shows the same number of criminals, 74, as against an
average number of criminals in the other Western States of 645.
This remarkable fact is made more interesting because the 74 in
1890 are all men, and thus the scarecrow of the vicious women in
politics disappears. Wyoming being the only State in which the
per cent. of criminal women has decreased, it is evident that the
morals of the female part of the population improve with the
exercise of the right of suffrage.

There were 189,503 insane in the United States, but there were
but three insane persons in Wyoming in 1880, all men. The
preponderance of insanity amon