Sometimes, as in Texas, a well known and friendly man lawyer is retained for the task.

Almost invariably the report of the legislative committee contains disagreeable surprises.

American women have been so accustomed to their privileges that they have taken their rights for granted, and are usually astonished when they find how limited their rights actually are.
There are some States in the Union where women are on terms of something like equality with men.

There is one State to which all intelligent women look with a sort of envious, admiring, questioning curiosity, Colorado, which is literally the woman's paradise.

In Colorado it would be difficult to find even the smallest inequality between men and women.
They vote on equal terms, and if any woman deserves to go to the legislature, and succeeds in convincing a large enough public of the fact, nothing stands in the way of her election.