The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-04-30
PEOPLES FORUM
sufrrax lists and Their Friends.

Editor OF The Virgnian:
Sir-Y Yesterday you kind enough to
publish some statements in regard to anti
suffragists and their friends showing that in
the State suffrage campaigns. the ants have
been allied with the vice tnterests--the whfskey
trusts, the gamblers and the white slavers This,
Of course, has not been their choice but by
natural laws, the extreme conservatives and the
vice interests sometimes. meet in a common
cause. The onward march OF truth VIII some
times leave all of these on common ground.
The conservatives contend against because
they like the old way the best, and care not for
change the vice interests contend against us
because they fear the womans vote for the de-
struction of their trades. The mother spirit
the home spirit is abroad in the land never
before and they fear IT,
chusetts asked that the women alone be allowed
to vote the license question. The Massa-
chusetts Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
opposed the bill, and through their attorney,
MIR. Thomas Russell. said: IF this bill passes,
prohibition will be carried in every town and
city of the CONNIE nwealth against the will of
the people Who doubt that the majority
Of women are and always will be on the side
OF temperance reform? The woman vote has
not always accomplished prohibition in the suf-
frage States, because it is there cast with the
man vote which is in the majority. but 1T has
always increased the temperance vote.
The National W. c. r. U. held its annual
meeting at Portland. Ore, and there all the
presidents from the suffrage States testified that
womans franchise had helped the cause of tenn
perance
were enfranchised, there were 200 dry" towns
in that State; year after this there were
SIS Significant fact! In Colorado within four
years after the granting of equal suffrage the
number of license towns had more than
quadrupled, and has increased steadily since
The organ of the brewers in Denver says
Colorado made big mistake in giving votes to
women" Significant fact
In Wyoming, suffrage State, 90 per cent is
dry territory. In Utah. another suffrage State
every county but one is dry. In Washington
State. the vets have gained two towns and
the "drys ] 8 since women were enfranchsed
Rev. DR. B. f. McCrary. presiding elder Of
the Methodist Episcopal churches OF North Caro-
lima and Wyoming, says OF woman suffrage.
Liquor sellers and gamblers unanimous in
cursing it." Why? Does it hurt their business?
Julia Ward Howe wrote to 500 ministers of
the suffrage States asking their opinions re-
garding the results of woman suffrage, $50
piled in unqualified praise of 1t, saying ii had
helped moral legislation and purified politics.
The international Parliamentary Union of
Socioosists has declared that Colorado pos
scientific laws for the protection OF women and
children Of any State country.
These the friends and the forces working
for equal suffrage. We feel that our cause holds
within II the elements of truth and justice and
must prevail. Ours is movement for human
brotherhood and sisterhood that makes urrecog-
nize the fact that all men are our brothers. all
women sisters, and that what hampers or
binders the life of OF more Of this great
human family Is felt by others and must be
their task to correct. We do not sit still and
cry for protection from the task We are work
ng in a great organized body for human bet
terment. We feel responsibility for the evils
y broad in the land, and want to lend helping
hand with its fullest power for the correction of
these evils
This Is not "a movement simply to obtain an