ible
to sign the repeal petitions; but out of the 1,591,783 men and
women they failed to get the 32,000 signatures necessary. It has
been asserted that the women in all the equal suffrage States
would like to repeal it. In any one of these States they could
repeal it if they wished to. A great effort was made by the
editor of the _Ladies' Home Journal_ to find Colorado women who
would express themselves against it and the fact that he wanted
adverse opinions was widely announced in the papers. Out of the
more than 200,000 women he succeeded in finding only nineteen who
said they did not think much of woman suffrage and of these three
said it had not done any harm.

A few years ago Mrs. Julia Ward Howe took a census of all the
ministers of four leading denominations in the four oldest
suffrage States--Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho--and of all
the editors, asking them whether the results of woman suffrage
were good or bad. She received 624 answers, of which 62 were
unfavorable, 46 undecided and 516 in favor. The answers from the
editors were favorable more than 8 to 1: those from the Episcopal
clergymen more than 2 to 1; from the Baptist, 7 to 1; from the
Congregationalists about 8 to 1; from the Methodists more than 10
to 1; and from the Presbyterians more than 11 to 1.

Miss Blackwell disproved thoroughly the charges made by the opposition
disparaging to the laws for working women in the equal suffrage States
and many other charges, giving full proof of the accuracy of her
statements. The committee asked her many questions and gave her leave
to print as much of her argument as she wished. Her carefully prepared
data filled thirty-five pages of fine print in the published hearing.

James Lees Laidlaw (N. Y.), president of the National Men's League for
Woman Suffrage, showed that the attitude of the opponents expressed a
distrust of democracy. He refuted many of their assertions, among them
the one that U. S. Senator John D. Works (Calif.) had declared woman
suffrage a failure in that State. He read a letter received from the
Senator the preceding day as follows: "I did not make any statement
anywhere that woman suffrage in California has proved a failure. Such
a news item was sent out over the country but it was entirely without
foundation and was based on a false headline in a newspaper not borne
out by the qu