The Washington herald., 1914-10-11
women DQNOT
OPPOSELIQUOR
Mrs. Heron Says the Suffrage
!, States Have More Numerous
Saloons than Others.
COULD VOTE THEM DRY
Cites Prohibi6onist Lecturer Who Does
Not Think Ballot Rights Should Be
Given American Women.

The following communication on the re-
lation Of liquor TO votes for women
has been sent to the officers and dele
gates of the Pennsylvania woman's Tenn
perance Union, in convention at Oil City.
Pa, by Mrs. John B. Heron. Of Pitts
burgh, vice president of the Nauonal
Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage:
Against the reiterated suffrage fiction
that votes for women will rout rum,
! wish to call the serious attention OF the
temperance women OF Pennsylvania TO
the following facts:
Wet q" States, where women have
vote-Wyoming. Colorado, Utah, Idaho,
Washington, California, Oregon. and Ari-
zona.
Dry States where men routed rum
Virginia, West Virginia, Arkansas,
Georgia Maine, Mississippi. North Caro-
>lina, North Dakota, and Tennessee.
Kansas Dry Years Before.
Kansas. prohibition for more than
twenty-five years, adopted woman suf-
frSge November 5. 1872. becoming the only
4 prohibition State to have votes for
women" secured over twenty years after
it went dry under male suffrage.
On January l, 1912, there were 2S, ,295
liquor dealers paying special license to
the government in the six suffrage States
Of California, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho,
Utah, and Washington, which had a
population of ,163, 4T3 in 1910. This is one
liquor dealer to every Is6 persons in the
six suffrage States. In the remaining
fcrty-two States and the District Of Co
lumbis, with a population Of S.soS Tss,
there were 22s,247 liquor dealers, or one
to every 3S3 persons-less than half the
ratio that exists where women vote.
Colorado, where women have voted
ltwenty-one years, defeated prohibition
November 5, 1872 by a majority Of 4O,ss7
votes, u6,774 ballots being cast for the
saloons As there are 213,425 women over
rwenty-one in Colorado Cpage s11s, Census
Abstract 1910, Colorado would have gone
dry by majority Of 6,0l2 without a
single male svote against liquor If only
IS per cent Of the Colorado women had
voted against the saloons.
Opposed by ProhTbItIOnIst.
Santa Monica, Cal, on December ?,
1913, voted nearly three to one for liquor
to be, sold on Sundays and nights, many
Of the cabarets and wine rooms selling
liquor being Of especial danger to young
girls Santa Monica had 2ss more women
over twenty-one than men in 1910. yet
LIQUOR is sold all night and Sundays in
This city Of 7,S47 persons, where women
have the ballot.
In San Francisco In 1872, with 150S59
Women over twenty-one in the city, a
total of 15.0S7 votes, men and women,
PRrs cost for local option.
fDr Clarence True Wilson, prominent
temperance leader, states in the Port
land COreE) Telegram:
AS a Prohibitionist, l am consistent
IN opposing woman suffrage, because no
State has adopted it without setting
back the temperance cause some twenty
five years. Los Angeles went wet by
l4OOO majority also Pasadena, which
was dry almost its entire history, goes
wet with the coming Of women's votes.
Pasadena had in 1slO Ass more women
than men"
No Quarrel with saloons.
The president and secretary Of the Ne
vada woman's Equal Franchise Society
signed the following appeal which ap-
peared in the Humboldt Star, Of Win
nemucca, Vev.:
''The impression is prevalent that the
members OF our society are fighting the
liquor interests. II the persons who
circulate these stories will look UP the
history Of States that have given women
the ballot they will fnd they are not
anF dryer than before. Utah and Colo
rado, where women have voted for many
Years, are not prohibition States. San
Francisco. after women were admitted
to the polls, went wet by large ma