The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-08-05
w. CT. u. COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. L. HOBBS.
WOmen's Votes Can Be Depended Upon
tO Outlaw the Saloon.

John Hipp, STATE chairman OF tilei
Prohibition party in Colorado, hav-
ing published a letter making COM
plaint of women's votes in that state,
where she has the right of suffrage,
not being as favorable to prohlbl-
ton as expected, Mrs. Helen M.
Cougar makes a spirited reply, and
decidedly has the better of the con
troversy. She AYERS that statistics
show that women in this country
are more intelligent, virtuous, tenn
perate, law-abiding and honest than
men. As o stream psrtakes OF the
qualities of its fountain head, it is
the necessary conclusion that when
women vote all these qualities will
reflect in their suffrage. She shows
the extraordinary conditions OF the
campaign in Colorado and other
western states, where the question
forcing itself upon the people was
not so much whether a man shall
90 home drunk or not, but whe'her
he shall have a home to go to drunk
or sober. drunkenness is volun-
tary, but poverty under existing fl
nancial legislation, is involuntary,
SO no wonder these women voted
for what they believed would most
quickly bring needed relief. She
concludes:
"Now let us look at what the sa-
loonatics think OF woman suffrage
in Colorado. At the recent state
convention of the liquor league they
passed resolutions against woman
suffrage, declaring that in the local
option contests, women were prohlb-
|iting saloons so as to greatly reduce
the business of the manufacturers
and retailers, and they voted to
establish paper for the purpose OF
ovelthrowing the law granting SUI
|frage to women. The paper being
necessary, owing to the fact that
Gas women are now voters no po
litical paper dared work for the
league lest they lose the influence
of this large class of voters.
$50 it seems that Mr.. Hipp il
not sustained in his conclusions
about woman Suffrage, if we are tc
believe the testimony of those mos
interested.
"If every state where women vote
would start a bipartisan cam
paign, when no other election is on
| believe that the saloon would bt
outlawed in every state where WON
en- vote. Give us the initiative ano
referendum in these states where
there is woman suffrage and the sa
loon will 60 within two years. Give
the sentiment chance to crystal
lie, without oth,r confusing mat
tiers, and we will have our desires
The California amendment was de
feated by the liquor league OF thu
state. The national league has il
Its platform, Resolved, that we op
pose woman suffrage everywher'
and always, for woman suffrage i
1.-The last resort of the Prohibitionist.
The league has resolved to secur
the overthrow of municipal suffrag
lin Kansas, for 'siEce the womeI
vote it is dangerous for man to g
lin some towns with the fumes o
liquor on his breath, quoting thei
words.
"What is needed in these state
where they have woman suffrage, |
, AN aggressive campaign and thor
ough organization for this worI
alone. Then the stream OF woman
'lsuffrage would wash the states Q
,'their saloon traffic. am con
|; vinced that no progress can b
made through the prohibition part
: lin these states, owing to its actio
on the woman question at Pitts
burg"