ience the testimony is unanimous, continuous
and conclusive. Not a link is wanting in the chain of evidence
and, as a Governor of the Territory once said: "The only
dissenting voices against woman suffrage have been those of
convicts who have been tried and found guilty by women jurors."
Women exercised the right of jurors and contributed to the speedy
release of the Territory from the regime of the pistol and
bowie-knife. They not only performed their new duties without
losing any of the womanly virtues, and with dignity and decorum,
but good results were immediately seen. Chief Justice J. H. Howe,
of the Supreme Court, under whose direction women were first
drawn on juries, wrote in 1872: "After the grand jury had been in
session two days the dance-house keepers, gamblers and
_demi-monde_ fled out of the State in dismay to escape the
indictment of women jurors. In short, I have never, in
twenty-five years' experience in the courts of the country, seen
a more faithful and resolutely honest grand and petit jury than
these."

The best women in the Territory served as jurors, and they were
treated with the most profound respect and highly complimented for
their efficiency. The successor of Chief Justice Howe was opposed to
their serving and none were summoned by him. Jury duty is not
acceptable to men, as a rule, and the women themselves were not
anxious for it, so the custom gradually fell into disuse. The juries
are made up from the tax lists, which contain only a small proportion
of women. There are no court decisions against women as jurors, and
they are still summoned occasionally in special cases.

Women have not taken a conspicuous part in politics. The population is
scattered, there are no large cities and necessarily no great
associations of women for organized work. They are conscientious in
voting for men who, in their opinion, have the best interests of the
community at heart. More latitude must necessarily be permitted in new
States, but in 1900 they decided that it was time to call a halt on
the evil of gambling, and as the result of their efforts a law was
passed by the present Legislature (1901) forbidding it. The Chicago
_Tribune_ gave a correct summing-up of this matter in the following
editorial:

The women of Wyoming are to be credited with securing one reform
which is a sufficient answer, in that State a