Book/Printed Material Equal suffrage : the results of an investigation in Colorado made for the Collegiate Equal Suffrage League of New York State General Collections copy
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Image 1 of General Collections copy EQUAL SUFFRAGE- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 2 of General Collections copy EQUAL SUFFRAGE THE RESULTS OF AN INVESTIGATION IN COLORADO MADE FOR THE COLLEGIATE EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE BY HELEN L. SUMNER, Ph.D. HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 3 of General Collections copy 09-29195 JK1911 .C6W6 Copy 2 ©CLA251237 R Copyright, 1909, by Harper & Brothers. All rights reserved. Published November, 1909.- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 4 of General Collections copy v CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE Introduction xiii I. THE PROBLEM AND LOCAL CONDITIONS 1 1. Purpose and Scope of the Investigation 1 2. Methods 5 3. History of Equal Suffrage in Colorado 15...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 5 of General Collections copy IV. WOMEN IN PUBLIC OFFICE 128 1. State Legislators 130 2. State Superintendents of Public Instruction 131 3. County Superintendents of Schools 137 4. Women in Other County Offices 140 5. Women...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 6 of General Collections copy APPENDIXES INDEX PAGE Text of Equal Suffrage Bill and Equal Suffrage Proclamation 261 Documents—Woman's Republican League of Colorado, 1900 262 Vote and Registration in Pueblo County, 1904-05 267 Tables Showing Tenancy, Naturalization,...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 7 of General Collections copy ix PREFACE This investigation is a serious attempt to disentangle from other political factors the influence of equal suffrage upon political and social life. It is not pretended, of course, that such...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 8 of General Collections copy x actual field-study was not concluded until December, 1907, after which another half-year was needed to sift results, prepare summaries, and formulate conclusions. In all I have spent nearly two years upon...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 9 of General Collections copy Colorado, I have received important help in the preparation of the chapter on legislation, and from my mother continuous and unwearied aid and sympathy throughout my task. Helen L. Sumner. Madison, Wisconsin.- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 10 of General Collections copy xiii INTRODUCTION The Collegiate Equal Suffrage League of New York State, in submitting to the public the following report of conditions in Colorado in 1906, after twelve years of complete woman's suffrage,...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 11 of General Collections copy xiv of things of interest to the student of social psychology. Before considering these lessons in detail, it is proper to examine the peculiar influences to which public opinion in Colorado is...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 12 of General Collections copy xv who come to her in the search for health, and all these people bring with them the beliefs that have been fostered in them by their native surroundings. It is, I...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 13 of General Collections copy xvi as a whole, we must not fail to remember the complexity of the phenomenon we are attempting to study. Analyzing her results with a view to discovering what they show in...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 14 of General Collections copy xvii answering Miss Sumner's question, we find that 340, or 65.1 per cent., were in favor, so that is the figures here submitted show anything, they show a notable gain in sentiment...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 15 of General Collections copy xviii type of woman. We have learned, it is true, by experience that the educated woman who may, if she wishes, attend colleges and universities and practise professions, is a different creature...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 16 of General Collections copy xix unreasonable, and doomed to disappointment. We cannot expect from many people the combination of common sense and enthusiasm shown by the man from Weld County, quoted by Miss Summer on page...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 17 of General Collections copy xx We have, unfortunately, no means of comparing the belief in equal suffrage among the women of Colorado in 1996 with that before the vote was actually given them, and we must,...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 18 of General Collections copy xxi voters of Denver, and primarily, it is conceded, by the women voters. A few experiences of this sort are teaching the bosses some most salutary lessons, even while they keep in...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 19 of General Collections copy xxii problem, and is, moreover, well adapted to teach the student a most salutary lesson in open-mindedness. It is of the very greatest interest to see what these unfavorable men and women...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 20 of General Collections copy xxiii long practised by many men and sanctioned, tacitly at least, it must be believed, by some women, makes an exaggerated impression. No person, however unreasonable, maintains that all women are honorable,...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 21 of General Collections copy xxiv their exploiters, and yet the police continue to hold their offices. In Denver, soon after the enfranchisement of women, they even carried their insolence so far as to force the prostitutes...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 22 of General Collections copy xxv of Denver no longer vote in large number, but the respectable women to whom they appealed do vote, and in time—for the must have time—they will help to save the prostitutes...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 23 of General Collections copy xxvi grown-up children only, and that others with little children enter politics as a means of getting money for them, which cannot be called neglect of them, though it may seem such...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 24 of General Collections copy xxvii twelve years under consideration, posts for which their experience as non-enfranchised citizens has most obviously prepared them. It is both natural and fortunate that this should be so, for we must...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 25 of General Collections copy xxviii always in large measure fallen upon women, and the sentiments of sympathy and pity to which women are usually more susceptible than men, and the greater leisure they often enjoy, have...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 26 of General Collections copy xxix municipal and county vote gives them joint control with men. In fact, English philanthropists frequently point out that in America, as a rule, private charities in the management of which women...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 27 of General Collections copy xxx per cent. of the price charged the state. Now, in Colorado, a woman member of a controlling board, or it may be a woman housekeeper of an institution, has power to...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 28 of General Collections copy xxxi effectively in their own interest, and it is, of course, idle to except the small number of women now enfranchised in the United States to control so vast a problem. Therefore,...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 29 of General Collections copy xxxii other men practising professions that prevent their active participation in politics. Bringing up children and managing a family are time-consuming occupations, especially when the mother must also help in supporting it,...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 30 of General Collections copy xxxiii obtained in California; and the laws concerning homesteads, made in the interest of the family, have also often been cited. It should cause small wonder that little was left to do...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 31 of General Collections copy xxxiv are women, Miss Sumner tells us (page 191). The benevolent women of Colorado are doing their humane work, not as private individuals in private societies, but as citizens under the control...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 32 of General Collections copy xxxv the minds of humane people who know about them, and I venture to submit that this horror is responsible for the emergence into public life of our women philanthropists against heavy...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 33 of General Collections copy the chief gain to the state from their enfranchisement, and it seems, indeed, as though very few things could be of more importance to a state than the intelligence and public spirit...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 34 of General Collections copy 1 EQUAL SUFFRAGEITHE PROBLEM AND LOCAL CONDITIONS -1. Purpose and Scope of the Investigation Shall women vote? Upon this question nearly every one has an opinion—usually founded upon a more or less...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 35 of General Collections copy 2 Eliminating without deciding, then, the question of right, the investigation proceeds on the assumption that the answer to the proposition, “Shall women vote?” is to be found in the good or...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 36 of General Collections copy 3 this provision in the constitution under which the state was admitted into the Union in 1876. New Hampshire and Oregon followed in 1878, Massachusetts in 1879, New York and Vermont in...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 37 of General Collections copy 4 vote on all questions except the membership of the national legislature. In Russia municipal officers are elected by the votes of real-estate owners regardless of sex. 1 It is said that...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 38 of General Collections copy 5 selected for an intensive study, in the belief that this state furnishes the best example of the practical working of equal suffrage and the best indication at present obtainable of its...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 39 of General Collections copy 6 the investigation covers condition in the whole state, but on certain other questions, such as the proportion of women voting, it was impossible to cover the entire state with the thoroughness...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909
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Image 40 of General Collections copy 7 one on the eastern slope one on the western, combine agriculture with mining and smelting, Boulder being the seat of the State University, and Durango the county-seat of La Plata County...- Contributor: Sumner, Helen L. (Helen Laura) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909