The Washington herald., 1914-04-19

time. many have gone wet in other States
where women voted. 1t can also be
proved that in many male suffrage States
the majority of counties are dry. In the
six women suffrage States that had the
vote January /. 1912, there were 6.222
liquor dealers licensed by the government
for the year .'nded June 81. 1913 The
population of these six States was 5.ls3.-
4IS-one liquor dealer for every 1s6 people.
In the remaining foTty-twO States and
the District there were 226O09 liquor deal
ers paying license for the same period.
These fOrty-two States and the District
had a population of S. SIS. 49, or one liquor
dealer TO every 372 people, or juct one
half the number Of dealers per capita
that the woman suffrage States required.
Then we are told by suffragists that they
are not favorable to the liquor interests
SiXty-five counties out of ia in Mis-
souri,. man suffrage State. have no sa-
looms. In the State of Kentucky, noted
for whisky dstillation, 80 out of leJ
counties are dry. This is a male suffrage
State San Francisco has 2.l03 saloons
the largest number per J. 900 population Of
any city in the Union except Milwaukee.
and twice as many as New York City
per capita, besides 1.40O blind tigers"
which they admit.
INV VI taiifoFulhs
The suffragists have stated publicly.
give women the ballot and in six
months they will wipe out the liquor
traffic. Six years prior to suffrage in
California. Los Angeles voted for the
saloons nearly two 10 one. a short time
after women had the ballot they were
voted for three to one. California. at
the 1872 elections, voted at l55 elections
on local option. Fifty-seven were in in
cOrporated cities and thirty-seven voted
for the saloons Cbut We must not forget
that twelve counties went dry in Ills
nOis). Pasadena, which was dry during
its entire history. went wet when the
women began to vote December. 1912
Los Angeles voted on the question o:
abOlishing free lunches in saloons, but
the measure was defeated and lunches
are still free in the saloons.
Missouri has a Statewide law prohibit
ing free lunches in saloons. Wyoming
localized gambling for about forty years
after women had the ballot and had
neither Statewide prohibition or local op-
tion laws. On November > 1872. prohibi-
ton was submitted to the voters of Colo
rado. Seventy-five thousand eight hun
dred and seventy-seven votes were cast
for the measure and 11s.774 against it. II
IS per cent Of the women over twenty
one years of age in Colorado had voted
for prohibition the measure would have
become a law by 6,Ol2 majority without
a single male vote being cast for prohi-
bition, there heing 213425 women over
twenty-one years of age in Colorado. The
Denver Post stated that the most ardent
workers for the saloons were women.
In Springfield. the capital city Of Illi-
nois. 4.SC0 women voted against prohibi-
ton and 1900 voted for it The saloons
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Michigan. a man suffrage State. the city
went dry. In Michigan. 20 per cent Of
tn counties for woman suffrage are wet
and les than 30 per cent in favor of II
are dry. Woman suffrage was defeated
in this State by a majority of il44
Seventeen of the eighty-three counties
gave majority for suffrage Twelve Of
these seventeen are wet and five dry
Because twelve dry counties have been
added in Illinois does not settle prohibi-
ton for the entire country nor make true
the statement that women will vote the
country dry in six months
No Help to Wage.
There are in round numbers betwaon
100000 and 100000 women of voting
age in the United States Seven million
of these are wage earners engaged in
gainful pursuits. In lurid and sweeping
AIt demands the
vote for wage-earninC women as a nee
essity for alleviating their Industrial
contions and raising their wages ANY
one. with any intelligence knows that
wages have never been raised or lowered
voting. The argument that women as an
unenfranchised class are continually used
to lower the wage standards of men
would be foolish argument il such were
the case.
Perhaps the general public does not
know that when 800 working women.
representing various trades appealed tn
the President with flags and banners on
February 2, one hour before they reached
the White House the President had rc-
ceived a protest from 1900 working wom-
en- in New York City against suffra 70
for women. Did not those 1000 women
cry aloud from The depths of bittnr
experience" and did they not know the
dangers and hardship confronting the
working woman vino had to face the
misery that low wages and long hours
produce"
Forty per cent OF wage-earning women
are in domestic service. Think of the
absurdity Of these women voting and