The Washington herald., 1914-04-19
MEN, NOT women,
ROUTED SALOONS
Anti Leader Says Sufragists
Make False Claim in the
Illinois Elections.
BELOW EXPECTATION
Mrs. Horace Brock Declares Feminine
Voters Favor Liquor in
Suffrage States.
Ey Mks. HORACE BROCK,

President Of the PennrIyauiA Ass,cAuuu Oppos-d
70 Woman suffrage.
Now that the country has ''sObered up
every saloon in the United States having
been put out Of business by the recent
Illinois election Cwoman sunragists might
say this is a slight cXagEerationI. let US
see what did happen.
OF course. tn. >uffraGists are making
n great TO do about tn" addition Of six
teen counties to the dry column in
Illinois as result Of the election. Tn,y
are forgetting. however. that long before
women obtained partial enfranchisem mt
in that State thirty counties had gone
dry" through the vote of mere man
On the day preceding the recent e.ec-
tion the anti-salOon forces. believing that
they could count on the women voters
to make an extraordinary onslaught on
liquor. predicted that thirty-three cOun-
ties would switch from wet" t" dr. .
Some promises must have been made that
We're not kept by the women. for the
result was less than half of the antici-
patton. More than 81 per cent Of the
women who could he persuaded to 90
to the polls voted to retain the saloons.
while 20 per cent of the male vote was
cast against liquor.
Joliet was a fair example of the Itti-
tUde Of the women on the liquor question
II remained wet by a majority of 1.;Ni
votes Nearly lC.No0 Joliet women took
part in the election. and they were about
equally divided as to saloons. Their Vote
ia Joliet. therefore. had no influence 1ne
way or the other on liquor.
And. oh. suffTaGists. do take aCcnC"t
OF the following: In Colorado. wTcrs
women have voted for twcnty-one wars
dong enough to raise some full-hedged
voters from the CradleI the election of
last Tuesday week showed that in towing
where the wet" and dry issue vas
foremost. the "wets" won in six and ti:T
'drys'' in four. And, at the same tune.
please don't forget that women were
given an opportunity in 1912 To make Colo
RADIO a prohibition state. but voted ma
iority for the saloons.
How "Mere Man" Routed Rum.
Women suffraGists. of course. are not
looking outside OF Illinois to see what
happened to rum in other States on
April = They are not taking into ac-
count how mere man at the polls
routed liquor. so that the following
showing from the male suffrage States
on that day will be enlightening:
Local option elections in Nebraska.
April :. resulted in seventeen changes
from wet" to dry" notable sue
cess for temperance was witnessed at
Emerson. Neb. which went dry" after
hAving had saloons for twenty years
Ono of the largest victories against the
saloons in the State was the result Mt
Falls City, where liquor was routed for
the first time in forty-five years!
In Minnesota, the temperance forces.
depending only on the male vote. scored
very heavily. Madison, Marshall Lu-
verne and Candy. for manv vaars the
leading saloon towns of Southwestern
Minnesota. entered the dry c"iu.E3
Litchfeld, for twenty years a saloon
town. went dry Mantorville. Tracy
and Luverne drove out liquor. and Can
non Falls remained dry" Historic ST.
Peter. where saloons have flourished for
sixty years. was carried by the temper
ance forces.
Twenty places in Wisconsin COnly male
voters. remembeD went from wet to
dry"
There has been a movement against
liquor all over this country for more than
half century. The statistics of the sue
cess Of the temperancecause show con-
clusively that the enfranchisement Of
women has done practically nothing to
help. This data shows that there are ten
prohibition States in this country. and