n under the law of God.

The Hon. Isaac N. Stevens, a pronounced suffragist, who had the topic
After Ten Years, was detained elsewhere. The Hon. Alva Adams, who had
twice been Governor of the State, in his strong and comprehensive
speeches before the convention and the Judiciary Committee of the
House of Representatives, answered for all time the misrepresentations
in regard to woman suffrage in Colorado which for years had been
persistently made by the anti-suffragists, and he also answered
conclusively the many objections that had been conjured up. In the
convention he discussed it From the Colorado Point of View, beginning
as follows:

Colorado does not go into mourning when a girl is born. Equal
suffrage has not taken Colorado out of the Union. She stands an
example of what a sovereign State should be--a model to those
self-righteous States that preach equal rights in press, pulpit
and forum and deny it in the law. The statue of Justice that
crowns her city hall, court house and Capitol is not a lie. For
the Capitol in Washington and in 41 States of the Union the
figure of St. Paul would be more fitting than that of the Goddess
of Liberty. Unfettered by tradition and prejudice Colorado has
dared to do right. She has given to woman what Solomon gave to
Sheba--"whatsoever she asked"--and has no regrets and no desire
to recall the gift. After ten years of experience, equal suffrage
needs neither apology nor defense. No harm has come to either
woman, man or the State. Justice never harmed any one. If
Colorado women were not angels before, the ballot has brought no
wings. Suffrage has not elevated them, it has simply placed them
where they belonged but it has raised the men who have dared to
be just. Woman has not yet conquered iniquity nor has it
conquered her. Suffrage is not a revolution, it is but a step and
not the end of the journey....

If women have not overthrown the entrenched political machines
the failure is due to the so-called respectable Christian men.
The women are ready but the men are chained to partisanship....
No single disaster, no backward step in politics or family morals
can be charged to woman suffrage. It has added nothing to the
business of the divorce court, no family has been disrupted, no
children neglected; but the prayers of hundreds of homeless
ch