The Washington herald., 1914-02-26
S6FfRAGIST ANSWERS
MRS. COGSWELL AGAIN
Alice Stone Blackwell Enters Another
General Denial of Charges
by Anti.
HERALD ARTICLE STARTED IT

Another general denial OF the allega-
tions of Mrs. C. CogsweIl in The Wash
ington Herald February 20. in answer to
charges made by Ida Hustled Harper. in
her regular Sunday Herald article on suf-
frage, was entered yesterday by Alice
Stone Blackwell, the noted suffragist. in
communication to The Washington
Herald from her home in Dorchester.
Mass.
The first denial of Mrs. CogsweIrs al
legations was made by Mrs Harper, who
had asserted that there was an alliance"
or Attempted alliance" between the Ma
tional Association Opposed to Woman
Suffrage and the liquor dealers orsani-
zation.
The communication OF Alice Stone
Blackwell is as follows:
Mrs. Coggswell. in The Washington
Herald of February ~. says that there
are more liC!uor dealers to the population
in the suffrage States than in the coun-
try at large. II would be more to the pur-
pose IL she could shot that there are
more liquor dealers to the population in
the suffrage States than in nonsufrrage
StdNts VI iHt Same general CHARACTER
mining States, where the men largely
outnumber the women. 1t is most of all
to the purpose TO show how present con-
ditions In the suffrage States compare
with conditions in those same States be-
fore women got the ballot
Before equal suffrage. Colorado had
three dry towns. II now has twelve
dry counties. When Colorado defeat
Ell Statewide prohibition. Ellis Meredith
Clement. president Of the Denver EIec-
tion Commission, and a strong advocate
OF the dry policy, wrote the women's
Journal for November L. 1872, concerning
the result of the election: 1t is be-
cause under our local option Law condi-
tions are SO good and dry territory in
Creasins so fast that many people feel
~ shall -Cr~s -~7ro- ---r'a'irg the fraf-
g. 10 this way .Eaa ~ s.-caitst .stal
lgchib'uul. with -.- police lower fU all
the bio towns Cppor.d 200 r. Tf~ ofran
o the trsse.g IN D=EYgI zIya C-lcs do
r11re gsz5J r1lstakc r. givlr- vd'1 -
Wr1EHn 10 Gar ar I 3 # lvare. H a. the
only nase. - Sec StEtJ EttcN 4 las his
sr----- cL-e 1---y " -lzH iB t'e'n- do
who makes a speciality of denouncing
equal suffrage. the one whom our ants
are always quotinE-Mrs. Francis God
dard-is an opponent Of the dry pol
icy. and worked ZealOusly to have her
home town 90 wet"
In an address given in Boston on April
-, 1913, Mrs.. Deborah Knox Livingston.
national superintendent Of franchise for
the w. G. T. l., stated as the result OF
a careful inquiry, that in California. with
in two years. 80 towns which were for
merly wet had gone dry. and in the State
of Washington, 49,
The State president of the Wyoming
". c. T. L. writes me that before equal
suffracs all Wyoming was wet. and that
now 50 per cent Of II is dry territory.
The State president OF the Utah w. c
T. l.. writes me that when the Utah leg-
islature iE 1911 passeU a Statewide local
OF on law, 40 cities went dry and only
eighteen went wet-and out Of these eight
cen so-called cities, sixteen were mining
camps. Every county in Utah but one
is now dry.
These figures date from last year. Since
then more towns have been added, and
sweeping no-license victories have been
won in Illinois and Oregon. with the aid
of the women's vote. In Illinois the
liquor interests are now working to have
the woman suffrage law declared uncon-
stitutionaL
Mrs. CogswelI refers to a W. c. T. L.
map on which she says the suffrage
States are black, The president of the
Massachusetts w. c. T. u, Mrs Kath-
crime Lint Stevenson. wrote i'm The wom-
ans Journal of May }. 1913. in reference
TO a similar assertion: THE statement is
false-or rather. it is one
of those half truths which Tennyson
tells us are ever the blackets of lies I |
have a copy of our map before me. That !
shows the far larger portion of Colorado |
and Wyoming white. 1t shows two-thirds
Of Utah and about half of Idaho as with |
out licensed liquor. and Washington and |
California with large no-license areas"
A letter received few days ago from !
Mrs. Adrianna Hungerford. president of !
the Colorado w. c. r. L., expresses |
at the statement attributed |
to DIR. Garvin, of Colorado Springs. He |
is quoted as saying: The four women |
of the legislature had the power |
TO pass the search and seizure bill IL |
they had voted right. but these four wom- |
en- threw their votes against the bill. |
thus defeating it," Mrs. Hungerford in |
forms me that there were three women |
in the legislature, not four; that their |
vote on the bill was divided: and that II |
they had all voted for il. they would not |
have come anywhere near carrying II. |
Mrs Ida Porter Boyer informs me that !
the statement which Mrs Coggswell |
quotes as coming from her was never |
made by her, but was attributed to her !
by an anti-suffrage reporter.
Julia Ward Howe sent a circular letter |
10 all the Episcopal clergymen and to all |
the Baptist. Methodist. Congregational, |
and Presbyterian ministers in the four
oldest suffrage States, asking whether the 1
results were good or bad. She received |
"a replies. So unfavorable, 42 on the fence, |
and SIG in favor. The answers from the !
Episcopal clergymen were in favor more
than two to one; from the Baptist min
sters. seven to one: from the Congrega
tlonalists. about eight to one; from the
more than ten to one. and
from the Presbyterians, more than
eleven to one. These figures speak for
themselves. a large number OF the min
sters. in reckoning up the benefits of
equal suffrage. mentioned among them
he increase OF no-license territory.
The attitude OF the liquor interest to-
ward woman suffrage is so well known
hat Mrs. Coggswell can hardly expect to
De taken seriously when she says that
he liquor men and the suffragists are in
eague.
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