CATT, Carrie Chapman SPEECH, ARTICLE, BOOK FILE Article: "Page Horatiol" [*Calt*] [*Page Horatio!*] It is a damaging admission of governmental futility when men say that prohibition cannot be enforced and therefore the Volstead act should be repealed. Is there anyone who does not know that the so called "wets" who held back political parties by the throat for a generation have kept their campaigns going without pause after as before the ratification of the 18th amendment? Is there anyone so ignorant of public affairs as not to know that their last hope is to break down prohibition through that prurient cry "it cannot be enforced therefore do away with the law?" Prohibition became a law by normal and legislative [and slow] processes. To declare now that a drinking minority can so far block Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, Inc. Vice President MARY GARRETT HAY President CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT Secretary and Treasurer GRATIA GOLLER Directors MRS. WINSTON CHURCHILL, New Hampshire MRS. ARTHUR L. LIVERMORE . New York MRS. PERCY V. PENNYBACKER . . . Texas Directors MRS. RAYMOND ROBINS . . . . . Illinois MRS. HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON . . . Ohio MRS. THOMAS B WELLS . . . . New York Telephone: 4818 Murray Hill 171 Madison Avenue New York, normal and legitimate processes of law enforcement that the majority must surrender to it, is to repudiate the very foundation of your [Republic] self governing Republic by the rule of majorities. Lie! this is the time when not only prohibitionists but all those who see the menace of political control by any vested interest should [see clearly] think the thing through and stand firm. It is a time for Mr. and Mrs. Horatio to hold the bridge! Carrie Chapman Catt Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, Inc. Vice-President Mary Garrett Hay President Carrie Chapman Catt Secretary and Treasurer Gratia Goller Directors Mrs. Winston Churchill, new Hampshire Mrs. Arthur L. Livermore, New York Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker...Texas Directors Mrs. Raymond Robis.....Illinois Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton...Ohio Mrs Thomas B Wells ....New York Telephone: 4818 Murray Hill 171 Madison New York 5-5-24 It is a damaging admission of governmental futility when men say that prohibition cannot be enforced and therefore the Volstead Act should be repealed. Is there any one who does not know that the so-called "wets" who held back political parties by the throat for a generation have kept their campaign going without pause after as before the ratification of the Eighteenth amendment: is there any one so ignorant of public affairs as not to know that their last hope is to break down prohibition through that prurient cry "it cannot be enforced, therefore do away with the law?" Prohibition became a law by normal and legitimate processes. To declare now that a drinking minority can so far block normal and legitimate processes of law enforcement that the majority must surrender to it, is to repudiate the very foundation of our self-governing Republic by the rule of majorities. Fie! this is the time when not only prohibitionists but all those who see the menace of political control by any vested interest should think the thing through and stand firm. It is a time for Mr. and Mrs. to hold the bridge! Carrie Chapman Catt [*file*] Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.