The Washington herald., 1914-10-04
SUFFRAGESTANDS
ON'WEP GROUNDS
Anti Leader Says Virginia
Went DRY" Without Votes
for Women.
BARES RECORD AT POLLS
Mrs. John B. Heron Declares Suf-
fragists Admit Their Alliance
with Liquor Interests.
Ry Mrs. John p. Heron.

G-ioe President Nz;ioua' AssaciatiOu OFposed ts
Woman sufIsEe)
The recent gain of Statewide prohibit
tiOn in Virginia marks the eleventh State
that has gone dry" Strange to say
in no one Of these eleven States have
women aided in the abolition Of the
saloon by their votes. OF the nine suf-
frage States only one, Kansas, has pro-
hibition. and Kansas went dry three
years before women voted there. In
the liquor question, at least, women
have proved more powerful behind the
ballots Of men than at the forefront of
politics with a piece of paper in the
ballot box" for themselves.
As an abstract question, there is lit
tie connection between prohibition or
local option and woman suffrage, but the
advocates of the cause" so. frequently
bring up the liquor issue that it is
worth while to examine a few facts
about its relation to votes for women" ."
No Alliance with Liquor.
The suffragists have realized all along
that they can never hope to win the
franchise in the face Of the opposition of
women, and, therefore. they seek to hide
the fact that earnest, sincere women are
opposing them. or else they endeavor to
insinuate that the women who are
against them are in league with the in
terests that are declared to have a nat
ural aversion to women's voting. Not
withstanding that the highest anti-suf
frage officials have often denied under
oath that they have ever been helped
in any way at any time by the liquor
interests, the ballot seekers never neg
lect an opportunity to try to impress the
public that the saloon and the ants are
allies. HTE 81
When confronted with the evidence
Of the falsehood of this charge at a
recent county fair, a suffrage speaker
said: well. if the liquor interests are
not on your side. they ought to help
us. We would not be ashamed OF their
assistance"
That she spoke the sentiment of many
woman suffragists is proved by the fol-
lowing facts:
]. Hugh Fox. secretary OF the United
Brewers Association. in a letter printed
in the report of the woman suffrage
hearing before the House Rules Com
mittee. said:
The United Brewers Association
states that the anti-suffragists have
never received nor asked for contribu-
tions from them, although we have had
appeals from the other side"
?. The president and secretary of the
Nevada Woman's Equal Franchise So
ciety signed the following appeal which
nemucca, New.
"TO whom it may concern:
The impression is prevalent that the
members of our society are fighting the
liquor interests. If the persons who cir
Culated these stories will look up the
history Of States that have given women
the ballot they will find that they are
not any dryer than before. Utah and
Colorado. where women have voted for
many years. are not prohibition States.
San Francisco, after women were admit
ted 10 the polls, went wet by a large
majority. We could cite many other in
stances. All we ask is the truth. Give
us square deal. We have no quarrel
with the saloons"
& Mrs Grace Wilbur Trout, president |
of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Associa- |
tion, and one Of the leaders in the lobby J
at Springfield, which succeeded in Slip
ping through" partial woman suffrage in |
Illinois, said:
1T is a great pleasure to remember |
that some Of the frmest supporters of |
the suffrage measure in the Forty-eighth |
General Assembly were some Of the So J
called vets
DIR. ShRWs Views. .s /
T. DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, president
of the National American Woman Suf- |
frage Association, declared in an official
statement recently issued, that the suf- /
frage associations of the United States
had never taken any stand on the gov
ernmental control Of the liquor trafic.
She added. sI