The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-06-13

Guiding Lansing, the capital of the
state, by mems votes; while SPRING
field, the capital of Illinois, where
there are 205 more women than men
over II years Of age voted to retain
the saloons.
California, where women have voted
for more than two and one half years,
legalizes prize fighting and is one Of
the few states that has no pure-milk
law.
United States outside of the woman
suffrage states live in dry territory.
Eugene ". Chain, former candidate
on the prohibition ticket for president,
1914, that "the support expected by
prohibitionists in California from wo-
men had not yet developed" (See Los
Angeles Times, Feb. 16, 1914.)
During the suffrage campaign in
Ohio, Miss Margaret Foley, in address,
ing a meeting of union labor men,
said: Don't be afraid, boys; we're
not going to take your beer away
from you"
In Cleveland many of the suffragists
insisted that it was only their enemies
who said of them that they would
vote against the saloons. In the re-
1914-Miss Marion H. Drake, who was
nominated for alderman in the first
ward, was quoted in the newspapers
as standing "for free lunch and sa-
looms"
Last year the police board of Denver,
Colo, passed a regulation prohibiting
all unescorted women from entering
after 8 p. m. cafes and restaurants
where liquor was sold. Instantly a
storm of protest arose, not by the re-
fined, respectable women, not by the
women Of the streets, but eby the poll
tical women These political women
complained that their rights were be-
ing interfered WITH that they might
he nnnnh1lnd IN he m tho Sfroo+s altar
8 p. m, and that 1t would be an out
rage to prohibit them the use Of res
taurants after that hour. Ladies'"
said the chief of police, addressing a
ted him, 81 can prove to o from the
records here in my Office that the wo-
men of Denver drink more whisky
than men. Shall I open my books
proof. They withdrew their protest,
and that regulation is in effect today.
Mrs. Crystal Eastman Benedict, a
prominent woman suffragist of Wis
and Dealers club Of Milwaukee, in
addressing the assembled brewers, the
statement: why all this hue and cry
about woman suffrage injuring the
ish?' Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont, in an ad-
dress, said she welcomed the support
of the brewers and praised Mrs. Bene-
dict for her work among the represent
tatives of that interest.
The president of the Equal Suffrage
association of Washington, Mrs. Smith,
when visiting in Denver, declared that
the women Of the state of Washing
ton won the vote chiefly through the
influence of the breweries of the state,
specially mentioning the Rainier Brew
cry at Seattle. Mrs. Smith said that
the failure of the prohibition election
in Denver convinced the liquor inter-
ests that they had nothing to fear
from the women's vote. LOS Angeles
women voted heavily against prohi-
bition, and Mrs. Shelley Tolhurst, a
suffrage leader of Los Angeles, made a
public speech in which she declared
that the saloonkepers need not fear
the women's vote, while IN San Fran
cisco another suffrage leader declared
that the suffragists would drink TO
their victory in California wine. Mrs.
Minnie Reynolds, for the National Suf-
frage association, recently challenged
anyone to find a word concerning pro-
hibition among the pamphlets issued
by the association.
Hugh Fox, secretary Of the United
Brewers association, in a letter printed
in the report of the hearing in Deem
Der last before the committee on Rulei
of the House on the resolution estab.
fishing a committee on woman suffrage
said:
The United Brewers association 4
states that the anti-suffragists
have never received nor asked fol
contributions from them, although
He adds:
We have had appeals from the other
side.
May Wright Sewall said, October 20
last, in Milwaukee:
Votes for women will no more pro.
hibit drink than they will prohibit
food.
The San Francisco Bulletin of July 81
last says:
The e~qual-suffrage constitutional
amendment has now been a part of the
law of California for more han half a
year. The women have voted at many
saloon-closing and saloon-regulatine
elections, and in no instance have they
as a class, stood solidly against the
liquor traffic.
Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, president
Of the Illinois Equal Suffrage associa-
ton and one of the leaders in the lob
by at Springfield which brought about
the enactment Of the suffrage bill,
said:
1t is a great pleasure to remember
that some of the tirmest supporters OF