Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-05-11
If women are going to assist mater

tally the cause. OF temperance, why IL
it that Dubuque in male suffrage
Iowa is dry, and east Dubuque, Just
across the river in womens suffrage
Illinois went wet? 225 women voted
on the question, 200 voting for the
vets. Why is 1t that in Reno, that al
( ter we got the vote in Nevada, the
question of retaining the number OF
saloons at so or reducing the number
/ to 40 came up? 1t was voted to sus-
( tain the original number, 80, with a
large number OF women voting on the
proposition. After the election was
over, the official organ of the liquor
dealers came out and publicly thank
ed the fair-minded women of Reno
who had helped them.
| In an official statement issued by
Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, President
of Illinois Women Suffrage associa-
| ton, she says: ut is our pleasure to
acknowledge that some of our strong
est supporters in the legislature were
the so-called "wets" The State AS
/ ISOLATION will endorse every legis-
lator who votes for equal suffrage.
The question has been raised as to
whether the funds furnished for the
Ani-suffrage campaign did not come
from the liquor dealers. should like
to announce that as member of the
Executive Board of our Massachusetts
Anti-suffrage association, ! am there
fore thoroughly familiar with our
treasury, its receipts and disburse-
ments, and know absolutely that we
have never received any money from
the liquor dealers nor have we been
asked to receive any from them, nor
have we asked for any. This is equal
| ly true of our National Association
opposed to Women Suffrage. The
statement was made by prominent
suffrage leader that our National As
ISOLATION had been receiving money
from the United Brewers Association.
AS result of this accusation, Mr..
Hugh F. Fox, secretary Of the United
| Brewers Assn, at once made the fol-
lowing statement: "The anti-suff-
rage association has never been en-
dorsed by the United Brewers Asso-
citation. We have not contributed any
mony, directly or Indirectly TO their
cause, nor have we been asked to do
! so, though we have had appeals from.
the other side"
This constant accusation of the
suffragists that we are allied with
the liquor interests is particularly an
noying. as it does not proceed from
any antipathy to the liquor interest
on the part of the suffragists. II Is
used simply as campaign material
only to discredit their opponents. As
a matter of fact, our suffrage friends
are In the position of trying to run
with the hare and hunt with the
hounds. In our Massachusetts cam
paign they would send one group OF
speakers through the state assuring
THAT the womens suffrage was neces-
sary to do away with the liquor inter-
ests, and at the same time they would
have another group of speakers in an
other part of the state assuring the
liquor men they had nothing to fear
from the womens vote. l, myself, have
heard prominent suffrage speaker
assuring an audience on a street cor
ner in one of our prominent cities
that they had nothing to fear from
the womens vote, or as she said,
Don't be afraid, boys, we are not
going to take away your beer"
The following letter from Mrs.
Frederick III. Holburn. Press Chair
man of San Francisco District of Fed
Grafton of Womens Clubs. and wife
of the Secretary of Bankers Assn.
printed in the New York Times of
October Is, brings interesting testi-
mony as to how women suffrage is
working in California. She says:
"the last legislature did less for the
benefit of women than any previous
legislature has done in the last 20
years. The legal status of women has
not been improved in California by
their Acknowledgement Under the old
regime a married woman could by
demonstrating, exempt property to
the amount of 5000 dollars from any
debt owed by the husband. This gave
the widow and children enough to
meet their immediate wants. Now, in
case of death, IL there is Indebtedness
the wife and children lose everything.
In the newly established equality, the
wife is liable for all debts. She can
he made to pay the household debts
and can be sued for alimony.
Nothing has been accomplished in
those states where women vote that
has not been accomplished equally
we'll, IL not better In male suffrage
states. On the other hand. you have
a. a Icsuil VI WOiueHS NOte al iuCTcdS-
ed taxation for which you get no ade-
quate return. Colorado has the high
est tax rate in the United States, and
property in Denver is already assess
ed TO its full valuation. Nevertheless
the state tax commission has lust rul-
ed that the valuation shall he increas-
cd ffty-fve millions. Taxation in Cali
fornia hHs alro increased tremendoue-
W ~ince women had the ballot and
wen so well known epffragist as Ag-
mes Nolan has eaid that the moor man
In Chicago is paying the price OF HE
chivalry in giving women the ballot
by an increared tax rate. II has been
e~timated that II would cost the state
of Iowa at least half million n year
70 enfrapchise the women. I ask the
voters of Iowa to investigate those
states where women vote. and see II
thew think there is anything accomD-
lliehed in those states to cause the
voters OF Iowa to increase their taxa
tion and give women the ballot.