The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-05

sentiment will not tolerate the enforcement
4 OF the laws for regulating the liquor traffjc
ne never for moment considers anything
put masculine public sentiment-the only
1 any question OF q political nature. There
" not q community anywhere In which
the majority Of feminine public sentiment
would not uphold the enforcement of such
laws, but IL has not a feathers weight In
. legislative or executive branches.
Take an instance Of recent occurrence
In England, where Parliament has recently
passed a rigorous licensing act. and Lord
/ reel has reported In favor OF only one public
house. or saloon, for every $50 inhabitants.
According to the American method Of
counting. this would mean one to every
1875 men. but as families are larger over
there II means one TO much less than that
number. Down In what IL known as sThe
CITY OF London there h an average of one
saloon 70 every 33s inhabitants. that Is,
every NIFTY or sixty men. In certain
square mile there are 7es; In one half Of
one square mile there Ia one to every seven
teen inhabited house. In the Strand di-
vision there Is one to every twenty-five
men. A delegation from the organized
proprietors OF these places has just visited
N Mr, ,t baiionr to protest against a reduction
spatches announce that. in the face Of the
above facts, -the Prime Minister. with
the Wollwick and Rye elections to reflect
on, and other by-elections pending. In be-
hall OF the Government received the dele
CATION favorably. He said the authori-
ties ought not fix proportion. but should
consider the character of the license holders.
&c. This to some extent appeased class
which has been one OF the strongest sup
porters OF the Conservative party.
Examples without number might be cited
to prove that the whole, liquor question is
absolutely one Of politics. that it is founded
upon the suffrage, that the public senti-
ment which sustains II is almost entirely
asculine. and that just as long as II can
control more votes than it's opponents 1t
will dominate the makers and the admins
traitors OF the laws. And just so long as
women are discrpdited politically, are kept
in disfranchised condition, they will be
utterly without counteracting influence,
they will form no constituency to which
port, and In abject helplessness they and
their children and homes must suffer the
newt able results.
When the woman suffrage amendment
was defeated in New Hampshire II was
said In this column that the next step would
be to repeal the prohibition law which had
been on the statute books forty-eight years.
A bill for this purpose has now passed the
Legislature. II will be remembered that
just before the election Gov. Nathan j.
Bachelor and Speaker Harry P. Cheney
and other New York and Massachusetts,
anti-suffrage speakers to hold a meeting in
the State House, at which these two officials
occupied prominent seats on the platform.
In every possible way they used their In
huence to defeat the amendment.
Now Gov. Bachelor signs this BILL which
provides for a salaried State License COM
mission with power to issue licenses. The
Governor appoints this commission and
Speaker Cheney is to be member OF 1t.
IT,, "a. 10 hx, Local nrHttnn
whether they want saloons or not. II the
amendment had carried. the Legislature
would not have dared repeal the prohibition
law. II 1t had done 80, however. the local
option would have included women, the
License Commission would have had but
few permits TO issue. and the open saloon
would have gained but small foothold In
the State. The bottom would have dropped
completely out Of the Governors and the
Speakers nicely laid plans; Instead OF
this, they and the other political leaders
arranged to have the bottom drop out Of the
amendment, and Lyman Abbott and Mrs.
George and Miss Bissell assisted the scheme.
This Is the kind Of work that the so-called
better classes OF men and the women them
selves aid and abet when they oppose
G. Wallace, the mother 40 beautifully pict-
ured in ben Hur,- who said: THE woman
that can see the present struggle going on
between the saloon and the home and not
want the O0lIOt TnuStf u = lIlcuI ucc<Cfu-
ant OF Nero, who flddled while Rome was
burning
II seems that the women immigrant in
spectors are to be allowed to hang on by
the eyelids-or, rather. by the lad ders-
till the President returns from his spring
! excursion Thus far the only charge against
them il that they have performed their duties
conscientiousl and the immigrants object:
There has been vigorous and long -continued
u, niV,Gt
the so-called impertinent questions Of
the male inspectors. but the latter have
not been discharged because they obeyed
orders.
The experience Of these women has simply
duplicated that OF their sex In many other
helds OF work Women must not enter
the universities. it was declared, because
their brains were not capable OF receiving
the higher education and they would break
down bodily under the strain. But when
men intellectually and capable OF more
sustained work physically. then those
in authority in certain quarters said: We'll,
the boys object to the competition and
the girls have got to be 'segregated.
Women must not enter the various occupa-
tions. il was said. because they had no
business capacity and were not physically
competent But when they showed SUI
Rcient ability to take up practically every
line Of work and enough endurance TO stick
to II, then came tnt CRY tftdt thry uao Soe
to abdicate because they were holding
places which belonged to men. And so
with these women inspectors They could
never fl the position, it was asserted,
because they couldn't climb the ladders,
and they couldn't stand the rough water,
and they couldn't endure the bad weather.
But they climbed and they stood and they
endured, and now comes the demand:
sThey must be put out because the Gov
eminent positions belong 70 men,. In
fact women are apt to find the road pretty
rough everywhere when they step, down
from their imaginary pedestals and sally
forth from their alleged boudoirs.
II IL a very sad case. that OF the seven
Porto Rcans who are registered IN chicago
and vet have been declared ineligible to
vote. The election board has spent
whole week trying to have the decision
reversed. It would he an awful outrage
for seven males to be deprived OF this
glorious prerogative Of their sex.
When Mr.. Roosevelt reaches Des Moines-
he is to meet gathering OF parents OF ex
ceptjonally large families. who. as a COM
nensation; are 70 be allowed to shake hands
With the President. This consolation prize
has been equalled only by that proposed
ten-doIlar medal of the Pennsylvania
i.-;ui.tor IDA Hustled HAPPEN.