ed that most of the colored
women there had to earn their dinner as well as cook it.

* * * * *

Hear the conclusion of the whole matter. In the words of the last
editorial of the woman's column in the _Rocky Mountain News_:

Woman's hour has not yet struck! The chimes that were
waiting to ring out the tidings of her liberty--the candles
furtively stored against an illumination which should typify
a new influx of light, the achievement of a victory whose
meaning and promise at least seemed to those who both prayed
and worked for it, neither trivial nor selfish--all these
are relegated to the guardianship of Patience and Hope.
Colorado has refused to enfranchise its women. * * * * * *
The Germans, the Catholics, and the negroes were said to be
against us. Naturally, those who themselves most keenly
feel, or most recently have felt, the galling yoke of
arbitrary rule, are most disposed to derive a certain
enjoyment from the daily contemplation of a noble class
still in bondage. * * * * * * But _all_ opposition, in
whatever guise, comes back at last to be written under one
rubric--the immaturity of woman. We make this dispassionate
statement of a fact. We feel neither scorn nor anger, and we
trust that we shall excite none. It is a fault which time
will cure, but meantime it is the grand factor in our
account. Every other argument has been met--every other
stronghold of opposition taken. Woman's claim to the ballot
has been shown to rest in justice on the very foundation
stone of democratic government--has been, from the Christian
standpoint, as completely exonerated from the charge of
impiety as ever anti-slavery and anti-polygamy were, and the
fact which was the slogan of the anti-suffragists still
remains: the mass of the women do not want it. We do not
quarrel with the fact, but state it to give the real reason
for our failures--the real objective point for our future
work.

The complacency with which we are able to state without fear
of contradiction that the body of intelligent and thoughtful
women _do_ want suffrage must not obscure our p