NAWSA SUBJECT FILE Tilton, Elizabeth [*8*] [*Woman Citizen*] December 22, 1917 Consider the Facts Congress and as much of the rest of the world as could be reached have been circularized by Mrs. James W. Wadsworth with an invitation to consider the facts with regard to the suffrage victory in New York. From the facts Mrs. Wadsworth is able to deduce the conclusion that it was by virtue of the Socialist and pro-German vote alone that suffrage won. On the other hand, Miss Mary Garrett Hay, chairman of the Woman Suffrage Party of New York City, waiving aside this private and particular conclusion, merely reverts to the facts and suggest that the case be allowed to rest on them. "There were only three assembly districts in Manhattan where the suffrage vote did not poll over a thousand more votes than the Socialists polled. Even in these three districts suffrage got an average of 600 more votes than the Socialist candidate got. In the 4th suffrage had the advantage of the Socialists by 551 votes. In the 6th it got 600 more votes than Socialism got. In the 8th it got 656 more. In the 12th assembly district, a typical district, where the Socialists got only1,822 votes, suffrage got 5,480. In my own district, the 9th, suffrage and Fusion ran almost neck and neck, suffrage polling 5,911, Fusion polling 5,578. The Socialists polled only 977. In Brooklyn the 14th, 19th, and 23rd assembly districts are accounted the Socialists' strongholds. In all three suffrage ran ahead of Socialism. In the 14th suffrage polled a yes vote of 4,052, the Socialists 3,142; in the 19th suffrage polled 3,608, the Socialists 3,037; in the 23rd suffrage polled 5,060, the Socialist only 3,992." Considering the suffrage vote in Greater New York in comparison with the mayoralty vote, suffrage polled a yes vote of 335,959. The Socialists polled only 142,178. The Fusion candidate polled 149,307. The Republican candidate polled 53,678. The Democratic candidate, and the successful one, polled 297,282. Suffrage, therefore, polled 38,677 more affirmative votes than did the successful candidate. No candidate was in the class with suffrage, though all were for suffrage. [*4*] [*Aug. 18, 1917 --- Wom. Citizen*] A Suffragist's Idea of the Flag "This is the American flag. It is a bit of bunting, and why is it that, when it is surrounded by the flags of all other nations, your eyes and mine turn first toward it and there is a warmth at our hearts such as we do not feel when we gaze on any other flag. It is not because of the beauty of its colors, for the flags of France and England, which hand on either side of it, have the same colors. It is not because of its artistic beauty, for other flags are as artistic. It is because you and I see in that piece of bunting what we see in no other. It is not visible to the human eye but it is to the aspiring soul. We see in every stripe of red the blood which had been shed through the centuries by men and women who have sacrificed their lives for the idea of democracy; we see in every stripe of white the purity of the democratic ideal toward which all the world is tending' and in every star in its field of blue we see the hope of mankind that some day the democracy which that bit of bunting symbolizes shall permeate the lives of men and nations; and we love it because it enfolds our ideas of human freedom and justice."--Anna Howard Shaw. Anti-Suffragist's Idea of the Truth "Dr. Shaw struck a blow at patriotism when she said, 'What is the American flag but a piece of bunting.'"--Circulated through Press Bureau of Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. [*10*] [*anti-*] [*See also for Mail aua p 5-11*] [*if paralleled Liquor ????*] RESUME OF THE MARKESON EXPOSURE Recently Miss Clara E. Markeson, a traveling organizer of the Anti-Suffrage Association, came to West Virginia and began work in Parkersburg. Within a few days it became known that she had been working with the liquor interests during the suffrage campaign in the state of Montana in 1914. The facts concerning her liquor activities have bee acknowledged in the columns of the "National Forum", published in Butte, Mont., a periodical devoted to the liquor interests of that state. The National Forum during the suffrage campaign in Montana had been fighting the extension of the vote to woman with great vigor. In April, Miss Markeson, who claimed to be the representative of Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, of New York, the National President of the Antis, came to Butte. Previously, she had been in Nevada with Miss Minnie Bronson forming Anti clubs. Not only was the Forum working against equal suffrage, but every liquor saloon and liquor organization in the state and the entire liquor press, were outspoken and rabid in opposition. In Butte Miss Markeson sought and had an interview with the publishers of the Forum. The told them that she was the personal representative of Mrs. Dodge, the Anti leader. She said that the active and open warfare of the liquor people and their press against suffrage was estranging some people from the cause of the Antis. She proposed that the Forum and its friends "lie low" during the rest of the campaign, at the same time continuing their activities against the amendment in secret. She proposed that the open campaign be carried on by the women whom the National Anti-Suffrage Association would send into the state. She said that the fight would thus be carried on in Montana as it had been in other states. This interview, at the request of Miss Markeson, was to be kept a profound secret and the liquor men so promised. But the matter "leaked" and the decent papers of Montana published the facts, thus showing to the people of the state and country the connection of the Antis with the saloon element and with the liquor press. After the exposure became known to the voters of the state the publishers of the Forum gave to the press a statement admitting the main facts, but declaring that Miss Markeson's proposition was too underhanded even for them to sanction. Following is the statement of the Forum, showing that there was a distinct understanding and agreement between Mrs. Dodge's organizer and the liquor press:-- The Forum said:-- "The statement made to the affect that the publishers of the National Forum had agreed to Miss Mardeson's proposed course of campaign, and had agreed to change the policy of the paper to suit her wished, is entirely inaccurate, inasmuch as nothing was agreed upon, except Miss Markeson agreed to return to Butte about the first of March with two or three other women and at that time she would lay her campaign before us for our consideration and possible approval and co-operation. Miss Markeson suggested that the interview and her mission to Montana be kept confidential and secret. We kept faith with her, and we do not understand the wide publicity given our movements." [*12*] Neil Bonner, the President of the Wholesale Brewers Association in his annual address 1914 said: "We need not fear the churches, the men are voting the old tickets: we need not fear the minsters, for the most part they follow the men of the churches; we need not fear the Y.M.C.A., it does not do aggressive work: but, gentlemen, we need to fear the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the ballot in the hands of women; therefore, gentlemen, fight woman suffrage". From The Woman's Journal. 9/23/16. Liquor and Woman Suffrage. The publicity bulletin of the National W.C.T.U. for September 15 quotes a recent issue of the Brewers' Journal, urging separation of the beer and whiskey interests: "The franchise will be extended to all women in this country some day," said the Brewers' Journal. There is little doubt about that. Within a few years most of our large and industrially developing States will grant the vote to the opposite sex, and where will the brewing industry be then if it is still considered to be in alliance with the distillers and whiskey-selling saloons?" [*14*] US&AU NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Carrie Chapman Catt, President 171 Madison Avenue, New York June 3, 1918 PRESS DEPARTMENT Roso Young, Chairman Immediate Release INFORMATION SERVICE. DO THE LIQUOR INTERESTS OPPOSE WOMEN SUFFRAGE? In answer to the question whether the liquor interests oppose Women Suffrage the National American Woman Suffrage Association submits the following data from its files: EXHIBIT A: (This had the additional distinction of showing how the German - American Alliances worked to the advantage of the liquor interests and, in conjunction with the anti-suffragists, against women suffrage in the Michigan suffrage campaign of 1913-14). STAATSVERBAND, MICHIGAN D. A. N. B. Detroit, March 1913. To the members of the Staatsverband Michigan, German-American Nat. Alliance. Dear brothers:- In its executive meeting held in Detroit on the 9th inst. The Staatsverband Michigan has passed resolutions providing for the enlightenment of its members in regard to the bearing of the provisions of the constitutional amendment upon woman suffrage, which will be voted upon on the next 7th of April. More than ever the Staatsverband sees the necessity to warn its members against ratifying acid amendment, for by so doing (the foreign-born women would be excluded from the privilege of suffrage. The amendment, which will be voted upon next April, explicitly says, that no foreign-born women shall be invested with the right to vote by virtue of her marriage to an American citizen, but shall herself require it by becoming naturalized after having lived in the country continuously for five years. You know, how difficult it is for our German men to obtain citizenship by naturalization: much more difficult will it be, to include our German woman to sacrifice time and money in order to secure citizenship by naturalization. However to venture to say, that it can hardly be expected, that the working women and especially the factory girl of foreign birth would spend $5.50 from her scanty wages to obtain the privilege of vote. [*15*] However, even if the most improbably thing should happen, namely that a sufficient member of foreign born, especially German women could be induced to require their citizen's papers, they could not exercise their right of vote until 1915 at the earliest possible date, since a period of two years must intervene between the requisition of the so-called first paper (price $1.50) and of the so-called second paper (price $4.50 and after passing the naturalization examination. If, however, the foreign-born woman is excluded from the suffrage; if the suffrage would be laid into the hands of the native-born American women only, the results, which surely will follow, can easily be predicted: Narrow-mindedness will triumph everywhere; fanaticism will flourish; prohibitionists and their refuse, the Anti-Saloon League, will easily set up for dictators in the state of Michigan. The factory girl and the working woman in general will much less Do the Liquor Interests Oppose Woman Suffrage? . . . 2. expect an improvement of their conditions, since they will be deprived of the possibility of self-help on account of their impossibility to acquire the right of vote. For these and many other reasons, German brothers, vote upon the woman suffrage amendment on Monday the 7th of April [*NO X*] STAATSVERBAND MICHIGAN Carl Bauer, Pres. Exhibit B is another instance of German-American Alliance intervention against woman suffrage, this time in Nebraska in 1914. The following letter of instructions was sent to their members secretly three days before the vote on the Nebraska suffrage amendment. The reasons for the German-American Alliance's opposition to suffrage are distinctly stated: the fear of prohibition and the maintenance of a solid German "political power." See Woman Citizen of June 30, August 4 and 25, Sept. 1, 1917 for a similar combination of forces in Nebraska in 1917. 16 LOCAL ALLIANCE COLUMBUS- APPEAL TO THE MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL ALLIANCE OF COLUMBUS AND SURROUNDINGS. Dear Sir: The officers of the local Alliance deem it their duty to direct the attention of their countrymen to certain questions which will be decided at the coming election. We consider the proposed amendment to the constitution granting the right of suffrage to women as the most important of these. Our State Alliance took a most decided stand against woman suffrage at its annual convention held in Columbus on August 25th last. Our German woman do not want the right to vote, and since our opponents desire the right of suffrage mainly for the purpose of saddling the yoke of prohibition on our necks we should oppose it with all our might. In these times when on account of the European war the English- American press has stirred up popular sentiment against Germany and Germanism, it behooves us to stand together and to demonstrate to our many envious enemies our political power by giving to those candidates who are of German descent our full support in so far as they are capable of filling the offices to which they aspire. (Here follows an appeal for the election of the following German-American candidates for Platte County offices: John Ratterman, Henry Lachnit, Otto F. Walter.) From among the candidates for State offices we especially commend Hon. John Morehead. He is our present Governor. He has always proven himself a friend of the Germans and therefore deserves our ardent support and re-election. For member of the State Senate we recommend Hon. Chas. Krumbach. For member of the State House of Representatives Hon. R. Reagan.* In conclusion we most earnestly urge our friends of German speech and German descent not to permit business or other considerations to prevent them from going to the polls and cast their ballots as above directed. With true German greeting THE COMMITTEE OF THE LOCAL ALLIANCE *(Irish and wet) Exhibit C: During the 1915 suffrage campaign in Massachusetts, Massachusetts men opposed to woman suffrage sent out the following letter under their own letter head: Pres. Patrick H. Traverse Vice Pres. George Rosnosky Sec. Patrick J Shine Treas. Dennis F. Reardon MASS. VOTERS ANTI SUFFRAGE LEAGUE Campaign Committee. Oscar Lefevre Michael A. Spillane Thomas J. Masey Frank E. Sullivan William Walsh John J. Kenney John P. Reardon Cornelius J. Bowen Milton Stone Roger F. Scanlon Timothy J. Coughlin Cornelius J. Sullivan John Kilroy Wm. Scanlon Edward F. Clark Edward B. Cree[?] John L. GIfford Alexander P. Murphy. Dear Sir:- For the purpose of procuring funds to assist us in sending speakers to every city and town in the Commonwealth to advance the Anti-Suffrage Cause, a Grand Picnic and Outing will be held at Caledonian Grove, West Roxbury, Wednesday, August 25th, 1915. The Project has the endorsement of the Massachusetts Liquor League, and a copy of their endorsement signed by Edward H. Pinkham, Secretary, is here[in]with enclosed. Enclosed also, is ten tickets for the Picnic, which you are asked to purchase. As this is a matter in which we are all vitally interested, it is hoped you will make immediate remittance for the tickets. Make checks payable to D. F. Reardon, Treasurer of Mass. voters Anti Suffrage League. Thank you in advance for the anticipated assistance, we remain, Very truly yours, M. V. A. S. L. By D. F. Reardon, Treas. The "copy herewith enclosed" reads as follows: State President Thomas J. Burke, Springfield. Vice Presidents (At Large) William W. Murphy, Lowell Edward J. Erwin, Boston E. J. Delehànty, Fall River E. P. Duffy, New Bedford. James Masterson, Northampton. Treasure. Victor Brusendorff, Boston. General Secretary Edward H. Pinkham, Boston. Sergeant at Arms Andrew F. Pendergast, Boston. Guard John Bulman, Greenfield Massachusetts Liquor League. Tel. 1100 Haymarket. 27 Haymarket Sq., Rooms 41, 42, 43. BOSTON, MASS. July 17, 1915 To Whom it May Concern: This note will serve to introduce Representative Dennis F. Reardon of the 19th Suffolk District who has been a good friend of our cause in the Legislature with voice and vote. He will personally explain his mission. Anything you can do to make our cause a success will be appreciated by Yours truly, (Signed) Edward H. Pinkham. Exhibit D: On August 8, 1917, the following summary of Accusation and Evidence was compiled at the headquarters of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from data existing in their files: "Nebraska Antisuffragists are seeking newspaper space in which to invite the condemnation of the men of Nebraska because suffragists are showing up the connection of the liquor interests with antisuffrage propaganda and activities. But if the connection be there, condemnation cannot attach to showing it up. "Is the connection there? "A review of the methods which encompassed the defeat of woman suffrage in North Dakota in 1915 reveals the following incident subscribed and sworn before a notary public by a prominent Bismark woman. She had a room in the McKenzie Hotel adjoining that occupied by a candidate for Governor, named Wishek, who had run the year before in a resubmission platform and who represented the German Alliance and the whisky element in the state. The suffrage bill had just passed to the Senate and Wishek had called together his political henchmen and held them in conference from 7 P.M. to 2 A.M. planning how to kill the bill in the house. "There was drinking and voices were raised. Offices were handed about like cigars. The German-American vote was promised to one aspirant for office. Another was tempted with a nomination to Congress; another was offered a country seat; another who believed in a fair deal for the suffrage bill and hinted that his boss was nothing but a crook, was soon made to feel the steam roller; the means of "getting" the conscientious supports of suffrage in the House was discussed. The suffrage bill was, of course, killed in the House. "Ohio furnishes a more recent example. Examination of petitions to have the Ohio presidential suffrage bill submitted to referendum shows that 9/10 of the petitions were circulated by brewers or saloon men. Here is the record of Franklin County where 186 petitions were circulated: "'One hundred sixty-four of these were signed as notary public by the 'wet' leader of this county. This man also signs himself under oath 'on the regular payroll of the Ohio Association opposed to woman suffrage"; 61 were circulated by the leader of the 'wet' forces of the county: 2 by the manager and one by the editor of the Liberal Advocate (Liquor paper): 1 by a bookkeeper of the Ohio Brewing Company; 27 by saloonkeepers; 9 by bartenders; 4 by a stock keeper of the Hoster Columbus Brewing Company; 7 by wholesale liquor men; 1 by the editor of Town Topics; 1 by a poolroom proprietor; 1 by a brewery worker; 1 by the treasurer of the Franklin Brewing Company; out of 408 circulators of petitions in Lucas County, 260 were saloon-keepers." "Like conditions are reported in a score of counties. Trumbull County is one of several where the County Election Board is making an investigation on account of alleged irregularities in the signing of petitions. In the examination seven out of the nine testified that they were saloon-keepers, that they secured names for the position at their places of business, where it lay on the "back bar." 20 "I have received fuller information from the Attorney of the Illinois Anti-Saloon League. It shows on what a wholesale and persistent scale liquor interest, on a clear issue, have tried to wipe out the Illinois Women Suffrage Law. "'We had,' said this gentleman, "only a few elections on the local option question the fall the woman suffrage act was passed, and so bad but few contest cases. In the spring of 1914 we had many local option elections over the state, the major portion of which were contested where the drys were successful, and the basis of the contest was the constitutionally of thw Woman Suffrage Act. This office supplied briefs all over the state where these cases were tried, and a list of the cases personally argued on this issue is attached. "Since the suffrage act has been passed in Illinois, there have been at least fifty cases brought in local option contest matters by the liquor interest to declare this act unconstitutional, each case backed and financed by the liquor interests in the hope that the act would be declared null and void." "These are samples of the evidence that accumulates in this office, state by state, to make the connection to which suffragists point." For further evidence concerning Ohio, see the Woman Citizen for June 16, 30, July 7, September 8, 1917. SHOWING THEIR HAND IN CONNECTICUT The Connecticut Bulletin says that the most remarkable part of the Hearing on the Bills for Presidential and Municipal Suffrage and on Suffrage before the Judiciary Committee on February 27, 1917, was the lining up of the men representing the liquor interest of the state with the Anti-suffragists. "The antis formed about one quarter of the audience in the chamber of the House, but behind them on the right hand side of the House were ranged three tiers of men who had come to the Capitol to defend their trade interests against the peril of woman's vote on questions of license. After the antis had spoken and after Mr. Hohenthal had given the case for the Prohibitionists, Mr. F.E. Duffy for the Grange, and other representatives of big organizations of churchmen had testified in favor of the excise-suffrage bill, the liquor men were given an hour to plead their case. Every speaker seemed convinced that to give votes to women was equivalent to passing a prohibition measure and the speeches were devoted to the desolation that would be wrought by throwing bartenders and liquor dealers out of work and depriving them of and their families of, means of subsistence." Said Mr. Mannee: Among the men who spoke against the Connecticut Suffrage Bill, were, Mr. Weil, representative and paid attorney of the Brewers Association of the state, who made a typical anti-suffrage speech, and Mr. James Mannee, who frankly explained his own position as quoted. 21 "In representing the trades that are directly and indirectly affiliated with the liquor interests, I want to say that we feel there is more at stake than giving the ladies an opportunity to go to the polls on election day, and tell us that we cannot go out and get a drink after dark, if they have their way. We feel that there is a waged question connected with this matter. We feel that our trade and others directly interested in this affair are on the verge of a collapse if you give them the opportunity to say this shall be so. "I want to say to you gentlemen, as a member of the Liberty League of Connecticut, the Trades Union Liberty League Organization directly affiliated with this matter, that in my opinion if you give them the franchise, the right to vote upon the question of selling spiritous or intoxicating liquors, that it will be only a short time before, instead of being a respectable citizen of the state of Connecticut, I will be a hobo walking around the country." Dead Nebraskans Made to Sign [*8/3/18*] THE charges of fraud and forgery made by the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association against the Anti Suffrage Association of that state, relative to the security of signatures to the petition which suspended the partial suffrage law, are being substantiated to a remarkable degree, as the testimony of the witnesses called in the examination proceeds. The plaintiffs called 132 witnesses when the signatures obtained in Richardson County by special examiner C.A. Emery at Falls City were under examination. According to the Lincoln, Nebraska, Press, a large number of the witnesses called, declared under oath that they did not sign the petition, and the only way they could account for the appearance of their names was that a circulator of the petition, John Norton of Omaha, must have written their names in. Only a few said they signed the petition with full knowledge of its import, and others stated they signed believing it was a suffrage petition. Richardson County undertaker, D. D. Reavis, testified that the name of A. Kellar, which appeared on the petition, must be a forgery because he had assisted at the burial of Mr. Kellar six months before the petition was circulated. Another witness called, proved to be nearly totally blind and unable to read and write. The Sheriff of Richardson County testified that eighteen of the names appearing on the petition were not, so far as he knew, residents of the county. An Omaha dispatch states that John Norton, aged nineteen, and an employee of the post-office, for alleged forgery of signatures to the petition has been taken into custody, being the first arrest following the expose of alleged forgery of signatures. Norton was arrested, according to a report, on complaint of L. C. Mauger, charged with forging Mauger's name to the petition. Mr. Mauger is said to be a strong advocate of woman suffrage. Suffrage leaders, it is said, say that the arrest of Norton is only the beginning of a campaign which will result in the arrest of many, many persons who are alleged to have forged signatures to these anti-suffrage petitions. [*Pa*] [*22*] Harrisburg, Pa., October 24,/17 Mrs. Mary Sumner Boyd, 171 Madison Avenue, New York City. My dear Mrs. Boyd:-- Replying to your letter of October 16th concerning three prominent liquor men who came to Harrisburg on April 17th last to help defeat the woman suffrage bill in the Pennsylvania Legislature, I beg to report as follows:-- David Hardy is a wholesale liquor dealer in McKeesport, a large town near Pittsburgh. He has been a political boss for a number of years and a leader of the underworld element in McKeesport. He works with James Woodward. Mr. Woodward was chairman of the exceedingly important Committee on Appropriations in the last Legislature (1917) and had very great influence. James P. Mulvihill is a democrat residing in Pittsburgh and a former resident of Arnold, Westmoreland Co., Pa. A few years ago he was judge of elections in Arnold. He was arrested, tried and convicted on six charges for corrupting the ballot. He never served his sentence, as the judge paroled him. He is at present General Manager of the Pittsburgh Brewing Co. George W. Boyd is now the business agent of the Pennsylvania Liquor Dealers' Association. His principal business seems to be collecting dues and organizing. He was their lobbyist during the session of the Legislature last winter, was here the entire time and active against suffrage. Mr. Neil Bonner you already know about. I regret that I am unable to forward a file of our 1916-1917 press stories, as our press department had been discontinued and all matter we now have is at our new State Headquarters, 1606 Finance Building, Philadelphia. Every thing we put out in the past, however, was duly forwarded to the Woman's Journal, although we rarely got a press notice concerning it. We kept on sending anyhow, and I think copies of everything were also sent to the National Association's New York address. I enclose your calendar of woman suffrage bills in the Pennsylvania Legislature, 1917, with one slight change in date. You no doubt still have the record I obtained for you last year fro the Capitol of all legislation prior to 1917. My own copy of that is on file at the Philadelphia headquarters. Trusting that what I am sending will assist you, Sincerely yours, Helen C. Clark. [*23*] 5 cents a copy October 13, 1917 The Woman Citizen The Woman's Journal Founded 1870 Official Organ of the National American Woman Suffrage Association Franklin Simon & Co. 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It gives its own interpretation of the cause of suffrage defeat in Iowa and for the woman's majority for Hughes in the presidential elections of 1916. ALL ABOARD FOR THE STATE CONVENTION I take pleasure in advising our members that arrangements have been made with The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway for special train, Chicago to Rock Island for the exclusive accommodation of members, their families and friends. OUR ELECTRICALLY LIGHTED SPECIAL TRAIN will be made up of baggage car, the latest type of steel coaches (with tables for card playing) and observation car and will leave Chicago from Union Passenger Station, Canal & Adams Streets, at 1 P. M., Monday, September 25th, arriving Rock Island about 5:30 P. M. Returning, special will leave Rock Island Wednesday P. M., September 27th, so as to arrive in Chicago before midnight. (Exact time of departure will be announced later.) Tickets can be purchased in Chicago at city ticket office, 52 W. Adams Street (Marquette Bldg.), and at Union Passenger Station, Canal & Adams Streets. Arrangements have been made for entertainment enroute and it is hoped that all going to the convention will go on our special train. FRED ROHDE, Chairman, Trans. Committee. WOMAN SUFFRAGE DEFEATED IN IOWA BY WET COUNTIES Official Count Shows That Four Wet Counties on the Mississippi River Defeated Wish of 48 Other Counties to Enfranchise Women. "Forty-eight of the 99 counties in Iowa," says the Woman's Journal, official organ of the Equal Suffrage Association, and not at all committed to the dry cause, "gave majorities for suffrage in the recent campaign. Four adjoining counties on the Mississippi River, Dubuque, Jackson, Clinton and Scott, gave a greater majority against the suffrage amendment than did the entire state. "These counties, where there is strong liquor sentiment, went against suffrage by a majority of 10,621. The entire state defeated the amendment by a majority of 10,341." The returns also show that the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and tenth Congressional districts voted against suffrage, while the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and eleventh returned a majority for it. Everywhere throughout the state the majorities against woman suffrage were in the wet strongholds. REVEALS MOTIVE FOR SUFFRAGE "Happenisg to be in the good town of Gallatin, Mo., one day last week, I concluded to spend an hour or two at the chautauqua meeting," said Wesley I. Hyland, of St. Louis, at the Raleigh. "Gallatin has long been famous as one of the great chautauqua centers of the United States, and many of the foremost orators of the county go there every season. A very large and intelligent audience was present at the session I attended and were listeners to a most extraordinary speech delivered by Judge Alden, of Massachusetts. His theme was 'The Needs of the Hour,' and the way he handled present-day problems made everybody sit up and take notice. Declaring himself opposed at heart to woman suffrage, Judge Alden asserted that he would, nevertheless, do what he could for that cause on the single ground that it would hasten the doom of the liquor traffic in America. Give women the ballot, he said, and inside the next four years there would not be a licensed saloon from ocean to ocean. "This declaration, uttered with great fire and dramatic effort, caused all the Hughes supporters in the assemblage to cheer vociferously. It especially appealed to them, because of the Republican candidate's recent declaration in favor of enfranchising women all over the United States through an amendment to the Federal Constitution. "I may say that throughout the entire Western country it has become generally recognized that Mr. Hughes' interest in votes for women cloaks a far greater interest in a cause that lies nearer his heart—that is to say, national prohibition. A short cut to A Story That Tells Itself These facsimiles have been taken from the pages of three journals devoted to the interests of liquor dealers and from the headlines in the daily press. They are statements of what liquor dealers themselves think about woman suffrage. They need no comment. THE NATIONAL FORUM is a liquor journal, published in Butte, Montana. It carried on a bitter campaign against equal suffrage. PROGRESS AND THE REFLECTOR is the official organ of the Wisconsin Retail Liquor Dealers' Association. It fought votes for women, urging all liquor men to get out and vote against suffrage. THE CHAMPION OF FAIR PLAY is the official organ of the liquor dealers of Illinois. NATIONAL FORUM Liberty, Justice, Progress Volume 6, No. 6 November 25, 1913 Price 10 Cents Woman Suffrage in Illinois proved disastrous to the Liquor and Brewery interests at the recent Election. It will eventually prove so wherever it is tried. PROGRESS AND THE REFLECTOR Volume II NOVEMBER 1912 Number 12 Wisconsin Gives Her Answer DO I GET THE VOTE? OFFICIAL ORGAN WISCONSIN RETAIL LIQUOR DEALERS PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION MANAGERS OFFICE 33 SENTINEL BUILDING MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN ISSUED EACH MONTH BY PROGRESS PUBLISHING CO. WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN SUFFRAGE DEFEAT LAID TO RUM MEN [*4/20/87*] Women to Get Even by Joining War Prohibition Advocates LOBBYISTS DENOUNCED "MALT" SAYS IT FEARS SUFFRAGE New York Interest Circulates Leaflet—Says Women's Vote Would Kill Industry. Adolph Keitel, whose letterhead reads "Malt, 18 Broadway, New York," is circulating a letter-circular dated Feb. 15 with the following paragraph among others: "Woman suffrage in the State of New York, which is now freely predicted, will, it is greatly feared also place the State in the prohibition column in a few years. THIS WOULD KILL THE MALTING INDUSTRY OF THE UNITED STATES." This letter circular was recently sent by an unknown person to the woman suffrage headquarters in Rochester. Brewery and Liquor Interests Fight Massachusetts Women Politicians of Both Parties in Bay State Against Suffrage, but Few Come Out in the Open to Oppose It. [SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD.] BOSTON, Mass., Sunday.—Massachusetts will decide against woman suffrage in the coming election in the opinion of most of the leading politicians of the various parties. The republicans and democrats at their conventions in Boston on Saturday refused to incorporate suffrage planks in their platforms and it is known that the democratic leaders, despite recent speeches of Governor Walsh in which he expressed the belief that women should vote, have passed word out quietly to roll up a heavy vote against suffrage. Heads of the suffrage organizations have been pleading for months with the leaders of the republican party to have the convention which was held on Saturday go on record as in favor of suffrage, but even discussion of the subject was discouraged at the convention Had the progressive party survived it probably would have cast a big vote for suffrage, but its leaders who were most active in the suffrage movement seem to have forgotten it in their desire to bring about a defeat of the democrats in November The brewery and liquor interests have been fighting suffrage hard for months and they, it is said, are largely responsible for the antagonistic attitude of the democratic party Mayor James M. Curley, Rum and the Woman Vote. It is said in Springfield that the liquor legislators hope to repeal the woman suffrage act We do not doubt that they hope to repeal it. It is not improbable that they will try It is not impossible that they will succeed It is not likely, but not impossible. The woman vote threatens the liquor business in this state. The damnable interference of liquor with the political processes of the state has been revealed, but never so baldly as this reveals it It is proposed to disfranchise citizens to keep saloons in existence We hope, we even believe, that if even an attempt be made to do this thing for this purpose, powerful agencies in Illinois will devote themselves unremittingly to the task of exposing and fighting rum and its work with such energy and vigor as will make Billy Sunday seem like a composed man little interested in the subject LIQUOR DEALERS VOTE ANTI-SUFFRAGE FUND ------ Penna. Federation Pledges All Its Influence Against Constitutional Amendment ------ WANT BUSINESS CLEANER ------ READING, Pa., [??g. 19] It was late today before yesterday's action of the eleventh annual convention of the Pennsylvania Federation of Liquor Dealers leaked out. The object [???e] action taken, as admitted by delegates to the convention, is to counteract, if possible, effect of the work of the No License League and the Anti-Saloon League and kindred bodies. The entire business session was secret. All the influence of the members of the federation will be thrown against the constitutional amendment, which gives women the ballot. Each county organization which is a member of the federation will in obedience to the stringent resolutions passed, wage war against retail and wholesale dealers, who violate the law It is understood that the county organizations will aid in financing the anti-suffrage campaign. The following resolutions were adopted: Indorsement of the sentiment encouraging the employment of union labor by all of the dealers, both retail and wholesale, and the universal use of the blue label, to continue the efforts put forth previously to eliminate abuses by dealers, both members of the federation and others not allied with it, if they are holders of licenses and those outside the organization, to ask the co-operation of, and lend all possible assistance to, the authorities in an effort to bring the violators of the law to justice so as to keep the business clean, open and beyond reproach. LIQUOR DEALERS HAVE HOPE ------- State Journal Sees Nigger in Anti-Suffrage Woodpile. ELIZABETH N. J. JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 1, 1915 THIS IS VERY SIGNIFICANT. It has been disputed whether woman suffrage aids prohibition. The fact, however, that those who defend an unrestrained liquor business in this State are also antagonizing woman suffrage openly is very significant. It is certain from their actions that the liquor people are fully convinced that the ballot in the hands of women will make harder lines for the booze trade. The activity of the liquor interests in this State against woman suffrage, in fact, has shifted the fight from one for and against suffrage to one for and against the domineering of the liquor business over everything else in the State of interest to it as a commonwealth or to its people. The fight from now on will be made to decide whether rum shall rule New Jersey Even those who took small interest in suffrage will take some interest in the issue the question of woman suffrage has raised. The liquor people are forcing the fight, not on suffrage, but on their right to rule. NEW YORK PRESS LIQUOR THREATS AGAINST SUFFRAGE ------ Rum Forces May Line Up to Fight New York State Campaigners. ------ 2,000 WOMEN AT THE FRONT ------- Simultaneous Attacks Made by Well Directed Crusaders in All Sections. hed in Jersey City, Feb. 25, 1915.) Liquor Dealers Urged to Vote Against Woman Suffrage The Membership Committee of the Liquor Dealers' Protective League of New Jersey had a conference with local liquor dealers yesterday afternoon at Teutonia Hall on Newark Avenue, opposite the Court House George T Carroll, president of the State League, presided and the hall was crowded Sunday closing was not discussed but a few remarks were made by several speakers relative to what might happen to the liquor interests should the women of New Jersey be given the right to vote The members were urged to use the utmost endeavor to defeat the woman suffrage movement. BARTENDERS' UNION AGAINST SUFFRAGE ------ Pennants in Bar Rooms Opposing Votes for Women Tell of Liquor's Attitude [*N. Y. Globe (over)*] [*Sept. 24, 1917. X*] NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPT LIQUOR MEN HEARTENED BY ANTI-SUFFRAGE VOTE Liquor's interest in the defeat of suffrage is admitted by the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association in publicity matter issued from its Cincinnati office. Gloatingly the current "clip sheet" sent to all newspapers by the organization reprints an article from the Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch commenting on the defeat of suffrage in Maine. Although it was suffrage which had been defeated in Maine, the "clip sheet" heads the story "Maine Turns Tide Against Prohibition." "The pendulum is swinging the other way," is the conclusion. "The faddistic element has overplayed its hand." [*Tribune*] [*10/2/17*] NEW YO Liquor Interests Hostile to Cause, Say Suffragists "Wets" More Bitter Than "Antis," Evidence Shows, They Assert [*x*] The hostility of the liquor interests toward woman suffrage, more active than that of even the anti-suffragists themselves, is an axiom of suffrage campaigns. And although anti-suffragists deny any association with the liquor men, and the liquor men return the compliment, the data department of the National American Woman Suffrage Association has produced evidence of their sympathy of feeling and unity of action. The most recent example is shown in Ohio during the last few months. In February the Ohio Legislature granted Presidential suffrage to women, whereupon petitions for a referendum of the question were filed by the opposition. The petitions were examined by suffragists, and were last week thrown out by the court on the ground of illegality. SUSPENDS SUFFRAGE ACT IN NEBRASKA -------- Wets and Antis Hold it Up Under Referendum "FIGHT WOMAN SUFFRAGE," IS ADVICE TO SALOON-KEEPERS ---------- Special Service of the NEWS. BAYONNE, July 8.—George Carroll of Elizabeth, State president of the State Liquor Dealers' Association, urged saloon-keepers, at a banquet at Meister's, Bergen Point, last night, to do all in their power to defeat the woman suffrage proposition. To strengthen their forces, Mr. Carroll told the banqueters, members of the Bayonne Liquor Dealers' Association, to try to get every liquor dealer in the city affiliated with them. John L. Nugent, president of the association, was toastmaster. ISSUED EACH MONDAY PROGRESS PUBLISHING CO. WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN PROGRESS AND THE REFLECTOR AN EDUCATIONAL AND PRACTICAL JOURNAL Covering Every Phase of the Retail and Wholesale Liquor and Brewing Industries Official Organ of the State Retail Liquor Dealers' Protective Assoc Volume II WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN GIVE BALLOT TO WOMEN INDUSTRY GOES TO [S?] Suffragette Movement in Wisconsin Threatens Variou[?] Not Wanted by Majority of Women but Forced Means Prohibition and Loss of Vast Sums to [?] facturer, Dealer and Workingman. Have you stopped to think what it means to you for the women of Wisconsin to secure the ballot? Have you thought over the problem from a commercial standpoint? Have you considered what it means when women of Wisconsin can vote on every question that comes up? Can you imagine what it means to the brewery industry, to the saloon trade, to the farmer, to the manufacturer, to the dealer and to the workingman? Do you know what it means to the thousands and thousands of homes in which happiness and content now reigns? These are only a few of the unlimited number of questions that might be asked concerning the woman suffrage movement which is now being worked to a standstill in Wisconsin by persons who refuse to work for honor or glory, but who insist upon being paid for their services. And some of them receive huge sums for traveling about the state of Wisconsin, addressing meetings, attracting women away from the husbands and families and from their homes. These professional agitators who seek to disrupt the domestic joys which invade the homes are not satisfied with a salary of $10 a week or even $25 a week, and one woman who makes an easy living by deli[?] that she be paid $200 a month her expense account runs up month. It is a great game thes[?] And such are the women the ballot, who want to replac[?] worldly affairs, who want the the farmer should continue to ley, and rye, these are the wo[?] women to leave t[?]e babies in little brothers an sisters w[?] expecte[?] and t[?] business duct t[?] lage, t[?] country Th[?] To[?] women not aft[?] not fa[?] It is th[?] A maj[?] Wiscon[?] states-- well; a[?] to "un[?] boostin[?] votes. who a and lo[?] leave t[?] strange most f[?] for the tongue[?] neither tall[?] m[?] VOTES FOR W --Lite A front page of the same Th Woman Citizen October 20, 1917 A Story That Tells Itself THE CHAMPION OF FAIR PLAY Clarke's Pure Rye BOTTLED BY THE GOVERNMENT Clarke Bros. & Co. PEORIA, ILL [?e] National Wholesale Liquour Dealers' Association. [?tillers'] and Jobbers' Association of Illinois. 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HOME INDUSTRY and PROTECT YOUR OWN BUSINESS INDUSTRIES [?t] know when you may need your neighbor's vote [?LL] LINCOLN 4302 PRIMA WIRE YOU HEALTH [?ima] Tonic FOOD DRINK [?S] RICH BLOOD [?ONEY], MALT, AND HOPS. [?me], nutritious; refreshing and [strengthe?] but a pleasant drink recommended for [?ourishment] in the way of a food [drin?] [?ue], blood and muscle-building [elemen?] nervous, run-down persons and those [?stion] and loss of appetite. [?DENT] BREWING OF CHICAGO Blackhawk Street [?ber] United States Brewers' Association Indorsed by Physicians ALL ABOARD FOR THE STATE CONVENTION I take pleasure in advising our members that arrangements have been made with The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway for special train, Chicago to Rock Island for the exclusive accommodation of members, their families and friends. OUR ELECTRICALLY LIGHTED SPECIAL TRAIN will be made up of baggage car, the latest type of steel coaches (with tables for card playing) and observation car and will leave Chicago from Union Passenger Station, Canal & Adams Streets, at 1 P. M., Monday, September 25th, arriving Rock Island about 5:30 P. M. Returning, special will leave Rock Island Wednesday P. M., September 27th, so as to arrive in Chicago before midnight. (Exact time of departure will be announced later.) Tickets can be purchased in Chicago at city ticket office, 52 W. Adams Street (Marquette Bldg.), and at Union Passenger Station, Canal & Adams Streets. Arrangements have been made for entertainment entroute and it is hoped that all going to the convention will go on our special train. FRED ROHDE, Chairman, Trans. Comittee. WOMAN SUFFRAGE DEFEATED IN IOWA BY WET COUNTIES Official Count Shows That Four Wet Counties on the Mississippi River Defeated Wish of 48 Other Counties to Enfranchise Women. "Forty-eight of the 99 counties in Iowa," says the Woman's Journal, official organ of the Equal Suffrage Association, and not at all committed to the dry cause, "gave majorities for suffrage in the recent campaign. Four adjoining counties on the Mississippi River, Dubuque, Jackson, Clinton and Scott, gave a greater majority against the suffrage amendment than did the entire state. "These counties, where there is strong liquor sentiment, went against suffrage by a majority of 10,621. The entire state defeated the amendment by a majority of 10,341." The returns also show that the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and tenth Congressional districts voted against suffrage, while the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and eleventh returned a majority for it. Everywhere throughout the state the majorities against woman suffrage were in the wet strongholds. REVEALS MOTIVE FOR SUFFRAGE "Happening to be in the good town of Gallatin, Mo., one day last week, I concluded to spend an hour or two at the chautauqua meeting," said Wesley I. Hyland, of St. Louis, at the Raleigh. "Gallatin has long been famous as one of the great chautauqua centers of the United States, and many of the foremost orators of the country go there every season. A very large and intelligent audience was present at the session I attented and were listeners to a most extraordinary speech delivered by Judge Alden, of Massachusetts. His theme was 'The Needs of the Hour,' and the way he handled present-day problems made everybody sit up and take notice. Declaring himself opposed at heart to woman suffrage, Judge Alden asserted that he would, nevertheless, do what he could for that cause on the single ground that it would hasten the doom of the liquor traffic in America. Give women the ballot, he said, and inside the next for years there would not be a licensed saloon from ocean to ocean. "This declaration, uttered with great fire and dramatic effort, caused all the Hughes supporters in the assemblage to cheer vociferously. It especially appealed to them, because of the Republican candidate's recent declaration in favor of enfranchising women all over the United States through an amendment to the Federal Constitution. "I may say that throughout the entire Western country it has become generally recognized that Mr. Hughes' interest in votes for women cloaks a far greater interest in a cause that lies nearer his heart - that is to say, national prohibition. A short cut to A part of a page taken from the Champion of Fair Play. It gives its own interpretation of the cause of suffrage defeat in Iowa and for the woman's majority for Hughes in the presidential elections if 1916. National Forum Liberty, Justice, Progress Volume 6, No. 6 November 25, 1913 Price 10 Cents Woman Suffrage in Illinois proved disastrous to the Liquor and Brewery interest at the recent Election. It will eventually prove so wherever it is tried. These facsimiles have been taken from the pages of three journals devoted to the interests of liquor dealers and from headlines in the daily press. They are statements of what liquor dealers themselves think about woman suffrage. They need no comment. THE NATIONAL FORUM is a liquor journal, published in Butte, Montana. It carried on a bitter campaign against equal suffrage. PROGRESS AND THE REFLECTOR is the official organ of the Wisconsin Retail Liquor Dealers' Association. It fought votes for women, urging all liquor men to get out and vote against suffrage. THE CHAMPION OF FAIR PLAY is the official organ of the liquor dealers of Illinois. PROGRESS THE REFLECTOR Volume II NOVEMBER 1912 Number 12 Wisconsin Gives Her Answer OFFICIAL ORGAN WISCONSIN RETAIL LIQUOR DEALERS PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION MANAGERS OFFICE [?] SENTINEL BUILDING MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN [?] [?] BY PROGRESS PUBLISHING CO. WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN PROGRESS AND THE REFLECTOR AN EDUCATIONAL AND PRACTICAL JOURNAL Covering Every Phase of the Retail and Wholesale Liquor and Brewing Industries. Official Organ of the State Retail Liquor Dealers' Protective Association. Volume II WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN No. 9 GIVE BALLOT TO WOMEN AND INDUSTRY GOES TO SMASH Suffragette Movement in Wisconsin Threatens Various Industries - Not Wanted by Majority of Women But Forced Into It - Means Prohibition and Loss of Vast Sums to Manufacturer, Dealer and Workingman. Have you stopped to think what it means to you for the women of Wisconsin to secure the ballot? Have you thought over the problem from a commercial standpoint? Have you considered what it means when women of Wisconsin can vote on every question that comes up? Can you imagine what it means to the brewery industry, to the saloon trade, to the farmer, to the manufacturer, to the dealer and to the workingman? Do you know what it means to the thousands and thousands of homes in which happiness and content now reigns? These are only a few of the unlimited number of questions that might be asked concerning the woman suffrage movement which is now being worked to a standstill in Wisconsin by persons who refuse to work for honor or glory, but who insist upon being paid for their services. And some of them receive huge sums for traveling about in state in Wisconsin, addressing meetings, attracting women away from the husbands and families and from their homes. These professional agitators who seek to disrupt the domestic joys which invade the homes are not satisfied with a salary of $10 a week or even $25 a week, and one woman who makes an easy living by delivering lectures insists that she be paid $100 a month and expenses. And her expense account runs up to a like sum each month. It is a great game these women are playing. And such are the women who are boosting for the ballot, who want to replace man in politics and worldly affairs, who want the right to say whether the farmer should continur to grow corn, and barley, and ryem these are the women who want other women to leave the babies in the care of maids or little brothers and sisters while the mothers are expected to go to the polls and tell professional and business men how to conduct the affairs of the village, town, city, state and country. Think it iver! To begin with, all the women of Wisconsin are not after the ballot and do not favor woman suffrage. It is the clamor of but a few. A majority of women in Wisconsin - and in other states - love their homes too well; are too domesticated to run around the streets boosting and plugging for votes. There are women who adore their children and love them too well to leave them in the care of strangers. But some are almost forced into this fight for the ballot. The smooth tounged orators who have neither home nor children, t[?] many women into be- A front page of the same SUFFRAGE DEFEAT LAID TO RUM MEN Women to Get Even by Joining War Prohibition Advocates LOBBYSTS DENOUNCED "MALT" SAYS IT FEARS SUFFRAGE New York Interest Circulates Leaflet - Says Women's Vote Would Kill Industry Adolph Keitel, whose letterhead reads "Malt, 18 Broadway, New York," is circulating a letter-circular dated Feb. 15 with the following paragraph among others: "Woman suffrage in the State of New York, which is now freely predicted, will, it is greatly feared also place the State in the prohibition column in a few years. THIS WOULD KILL THE MALTING INDUSTRY OF THE UNITED STATES." This letter circular was recently sent by an unknown person to the woman suffrage headquarters in Rochester. Brewery and Liquor Interests Fight Massachusetts Women Politicians of Both Parties in Bay State Against Suffrage, but Few Come Out in the Open to Oppose It. [SPECIAL DESOATCH TO THE HERALD.] BOSTON, Mass., Sunday. - Massachusetts will decide against woman suffrage in the coming election in the opinion of most of the leading politicians of the various parties. The republicans and democrats at their conventions in Boston on Saturday refused to incorporate suffrage planks in their platforms and it is known that the democratic leaders, despite recent speeches of Governor Walsh in which he expressed the belief that women should vote, have passed word out quietly to roll up a heavy vote against suffrage. Heads of the suffrage organizations have been pleading for months with the leaders of the republican party to have the conventuon which was held on Saturday go in record as in favor of the subject was discouraged at the convention. Had the progressive party survived [?] probably would have cast a big vote for suffrage, but its leaders who were [mos?] [?tive] in the suffrage movement, seem to have forgotten it in their desire to bring about a deafeat of the democrats in November The brewery and liquor interests have been fighting suffrage hard for months and they, it is said, are largely responsible for the antagonostic attitude of the democratic party Mayor James M. Curley [o?] representatives of [?ibune] of May [?] says editorially. Rum and the Woman Vote. It is said in Springfield that the liquor legislators hope to repeal the woman suffrage act We do not doubt that they hope to repeal it. It is not improbable that they will try It is not likely, but not impossible. The woman vote threatens the liquor business in this state. The damnable interference of liquor with the [politi?] processes of the state has been revealed, but never so badly as this reveals it It is proposed to disfranchise citizens to keep saloons in existence We hope, we even believe, that if even an attempt be made to do this thing for this purpose, powerful agencies in Illinois will devote themselves unremittingly to the task of exposing and fighting rum and its work with such energy and vigor as will make Billy Sunday seem like a composed man little interested in the subject LIQUOR DEALERS VOTE ANTI-SUFFRAGE FUND Penna, Federation Pledges All Its Influence Against Constitutional Amendment WANT BUSINESS CLEANER READING? Pa.? [?g]. 19 It was late today before yesterday's action of the eleventh annual convention of the Pennsylvania Federation [c?] liquor Dealers leaked out. The object [?] action taken, as admitted by [del?] [?tes] to the convention, is to counteract, if possible, effect of the work of the No-License League and the Anti-Saloon League and kindred bodies. The entire business session was secret. All the influence of the members of the federation will be thrown agaisnt the constitutional amendment, which gives women the ballot. Each county organization which is a member of the federation will in obedience to the stringent resolutions passed, wage war against retail and wholesale dealers, who violare the law It is understood that the county organizations will aid in financing the anti-suffrage campaign. The following resolutions were adopted: Indorsement of the sentiment encouraging the employment of union labor by all of the dealers, both retail and wholesale, and the universal use of the blue label, to continue the efforts put forth previously to eliminate abuses bt dealers, both members of the federation and other not allied with it, if they are holders of licenses and those outside the authorities in an effort to bring the violators of the law to justice so as to keep the business clean, open and beyond reproach. LIQUOR DEALERS HAVE HOPE State Journal 'Sees [N?er] in Anti- Suurage Woodpile. ELIZABETH. N. J. JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 1, 1915 THIS IS VERY SIGNIFICANT. It has been disputed whether woman suffrage aids prohibition. The fact, however, that those who defend an unrestrained liquor business in this State are also antagonizing woman suffrage openly is very significant. It is certain from their actions that the ballot in the hands of women will make harder lines for the booze trade. The activity of the liquor interests in this State against woman suffrage, in fact, has shifted the fight from one for and against suffrage to one for and against the domineering of the liquor business over everything else in the State of interest to it as a commonwealth or to its people. The fight from now on will be made to decide whether rum shall rule New Jersey Even those who took small interest in the issue the question of woman suffrage has raised. The liquor people are foreing the fight, not on suffrage, but on their right to rule. LIQUOR THREATS AGAINST SUFFRAGE Rum Forces May Line Up to Fight New York State Campaigners. 2,000 WOMEN AT THE FRONT Simultaneous Attacks Made by Well Directed Crusaders in All Sections. [?hed] in Hersey City, Feb. 25, 1915. Liquor Dealers Urged to Vote Against Woman Suffrage The Membership Committee of the Liquor Dealers' Protective League of New Jersey had a conference with local liquor dealers yesterday afternoon at Teutonia Hall on Newark Avenue, opposite the Court House George T Carrolll, president of the State League, presided and the hall was crowded Sunday closing was not discussed but a few remarks were made by several speakers relative to what might happen to the liquor interests should the women of Ney Jersey be given the right to vote The members were urged to use the utmost endeavor to defeat the woman suffrage movement. BARTENDERS' UNION AGAINST SUFFRAGE Pennants in Bar Rooms Opposing Votes for Women Tell of Liquor's Attitude N. [?]. [?]. Sept. [?]. 1914. NEW YORK, MONDAY, [SEPT?] LIQUOR MEN HEARTENED BY ANTI-SUFFRAGE VOTE Liquor's interest in the defeat of suffrage is admitted by the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association in publicity matter issued from its Cincinnati office. Gloatingly the current "clip sheet" sent to all newspapers by the organization reprints an article from the Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch commenting on the defeat of suffrage in Maine. Although it was suffrage which had been defeated in Maine, the "clip sheet" heads the story "Maine Turns Tide Against Prohibition." "The pendulum is swinging the other way," is the conclusion. "The faddistic element has overplayed its hand." [?] 10/2/17 NEW [YO?] Liquor Interests Hostile to Cause, Say Suffragists "Wets" More Bitter Than "Antis," Evidence Shows, They Assert The hostility of the liquor interests towards woman suffrage, more active that that of even the anti-suffragists themselves, is an axiom of suffrage campaigns. And although anti-suffragists deny any association with the liquor men, and the liquor men return the compliment, the data department of the National American Woman Suffrage Association has produced evidence of their sympathy of feeling and unity of action. The most recent example is shown in Ohio during the last few months. In February the Ohio Legistlature granted Presidential suffrage to women, whereupon petitions for a referendum of the question were fled by the opposition. The petitions were examined by suffragists, and were last week thrown out by the court on the ground of illegality. SUSPENDS SUFFRAGE ACT IN NEBRASKA Wets and Antis Hold It Up Under Referendum "FIGHT WOMAN SUFFRAGE," IS ADVICE TO SALOON-KEEPERS Spectal Service of the NEWS BAYONNE? July 8. - George Carroll of Elizabeth. State president of the State Liquor Dealers' Association, urged saloon-keepers, at a banquet at Meister's, Bergen Point, last night, to do all in their power to defeat the woman suffrage proposition. To strengthen their forces, Mr. Carroll told the banqueters, members of the Bayonne Liquor Dealers' Association, to try to get every liquor dealer in the city affiliated with them. John L. Nugent, president of the association, was toastmaster. A BUFFALO SALOON ON ELECTION DAY, 1915 "Said Neil Bonner, president of the National Liquor Dealers' Association, to the members of the New Jersey Liquor Dealers' Protective Association: 'Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, has declared that he proposes to vote to give the ballot to women. I want to say to you that I, as president of the retail liquor dealers' organization of this country intend to vote against giving women the ballot.' "The implication of which is that in the opinion of Neil Bonner, the President of the United States isn't so much of a much as compared with the president of the Retail Liquor Dealers of the United States. President Bonner's modesty is on par with his descretion." - From the Newark Evening News of October 9, 1915. 394 The Woman Citizen JUDGE HENRY WADE ROGERS THE national convention of the Methodist Episcopal Church, meeting in Saratoga, N. Y., on May 23, I9I6, adopted the following resolution: WHEREAS, In the history of the Methodist Episcopal Church women have always been loyal and faithful workers, and WHEREAS, We recognize that Christian wives and mothers should be given an opportunity to assist in the great work of introducing into politics more of the true spirit of Christianity, and WHEREAS, The Methodist Episcopal Church has always stood for justice and righteousness in social and political life, RESOLVED, Therefore, that we, the delegates to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, assert our belief in the justice and righteousness of granting women the political franchise. AMONG the delegates were: Henry Wade Rogers, LL.D., Judge, U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, New Haven, Conn; Albert J. Wallace, Ex-Lieutenant-Governor of California, Pasadena, California; A. W. Harris, LL.D., President of Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.; Samuel Dickie, LL.D., President of Albion College, Albion, Mich.; Rollo V. Watt, Insurance man, San Francisco, California; J. Frank Hanly, Ex-Governor of Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana; Alex. Simpson, Jr., Lawyer, Philadelphia, Pa.; H. T. Ames, Lawyer, Williamsport, Pa.; George M. Shurlock, Lawyer, York, Nebraska; John Marshall, Justice, Supreme Court of Kansas, Topeka, Kansas; James R. Day, LL.D., Chancellor of Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.; Samuel Plantz, LL.D., President of Lawrence University, Lawrence, Wisconsin; Elmer A. Dent, D.D., District Superintendent, New Haven, Conn,. J. I. Bartholomew, D.D., District Superintendent, New Bedford, Mass.; L. J. Birney, D.D., Dean of Boston University School of Theology, Boston, Mass.; I. Garland Penn, D.D., Secretary of For the Sake of Practical Christianity Freedman's Aid Society, Cincinnati, Ohio; David G. Downey, D.D., Book Editor of Methodist Book Concern, New York City; George Elliot, D.D., Minister, Mt. Clemens, Michigan. JUDGE HENRY WADE ROGERS, of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, introduced this resolution and advocated its adoption with remarks that hewed to the line, while the chips flew. He said that the act proposed was, in his opinion, an act of justice. He did not propose to take time to make an argument, for no argument was needed. He appealed to a General Conference that represents a Church that, through quadrennium after quadrennium and through generation after generation, had filed its indictment against human slavery, and piled anathema upon anathema in its denunciation of the liquor traffic. He offered the resolution because he believed that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and not from the consent of half the governed; because he believed in government for the people and by the people, and not by half of the people; because in his judgement women need the ballot for the same reasons that men need it; because women are entitled to have a share in the making of the laws that regulate their lives, and the lives of their children, laws that impose taxes upon their property, and laws under which they and their children may be sentenced to death. "I CANNOT explain the opposition to woman suffrage on the part of educated people except on the ground of prejudice," writes William T. Dumm of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Superintendent of Wyoming State Methodist Conference. "In my judgement the dignity and personal piety of woman is enhanced by the exercise of the right of suffrage and in my experience of twelve years in the state my opinion is that the moral character of the women of Wyoming will compare favorably with the women of other states in which I have lived, in Massachusetts and Ohio. "Finally it is my candid opinion that there is very little reasonable argument against woman suffrage and much that can be said in its favor. Personally, I am a firm believer in the theory that it will work out satisfactorily in practical life. It is a step in advance and it will finally win out in every state which desires real progress in moral and civic affairs." "I CAME to Montana thirty years ago," says J. A. Martin, Superintendent of the North Montana Methodist Episcopal Conference, "and I want to tell you that conditions have changed more than I can possibly say for the better since women have had the use of the ballot. We have sentiment here today that we have never had before for better morals. "Our Attorney General, who was elected through the woman's vote, has just sent out orders to close every restricted vice district in Montana, and they are closed, believe me. We also got prohibition last November through the woman's vote. We rejoice in the new condition of affairs." AN equally strong sentiment in favor of woman suffrage is held by another Methodist district Superintendent, B. E. Konntz of Spokane, Washington. "Moral conditions," he writes, "have greatly improved in every instance where women have had the right to vote. No man of any standing in any western community will deny the fact that women voters have given moral tone to every civic movement." THE Rev. Arthur Jamieson, of the Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, declares that he is "in most hearty sympathy with the movement which seeks to give women the right to register at the polls their opinion on civic and national affairs. I cannot see on what ground we can refuse the demand that women be allowed to vote. The arguments against it do not appear to me to have sufficient ground in reason. We have no right to refuse a demand so well founded in reason." DR. ARTHUR JAMIESON OF NEW YORK DR. J. D. GILLELAN, Superintendent Boise District of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Idaho, writes: "We have lived in Utah, Idaho and Oregon both before and after women voted. "The vote has elevated the polling places. This is an advantage to the men. It has made the women interested in the questions of the day. They are not a whit less womanly, their homes are none the less homelike, their children are no less cared for, and they need no extra care for their personal safety, attention and comfort, for our western men are still chivalrous and womanhood is still the most sacred of our possessions. I have never heard of a woman being insulted at the polls, for, very few of the "bad" sort ever find their way thither and even such are disfranchised in Idaho. "Our state prison is rapidly falling off in (Continued on page 398) October 20, 1917 Justice, and No Compromise The following resolution, introduced by Rabbi Horace J. Wolf, was adopted by the Central Conference of American Rabbis, July 4, I9I7: WHEREAS, The Central Conference of American Rabbis recognizes the justice of thoroughgoing democracy, and WHEREAS, The Central Conference of American Rabbis recognizes that in a country which upholds democratic ideas and principles it is unethical and unjust to shut out women from active participation in choosing its leaders, and WHEREAS, The Jewish people have reason to know the hardship and bitterness of unjust and proscriptive political discrimination, and Whereas, In peace and in war women have always shown their loyalty, patriotism and eagerness to serve their country in every possible way, be it RESOLVED, That we, American Rabbis in Central Conference assembled, hereby feel it to be our solemn duty as ethical leaders of our various communities, preachers of a religion which has stood throughout the centuries for justice and RABBI LOUIS J. KOPOLD righteousness, to assert our belief in the justice and righteousness of the enfranchisement of the women of our country. "I BELIEVE in suffrage for women in America, because I believe in Justice", wrote Rabbi Louis Kopold of Buffalo, on Oct. 2. "It is true that to give the vote to the women of our land can be proved to be socially expedient; but I refuse to descend to mere expediency as the basis of suffrage, when the fundamental appeal of Justice should demand the sympathetic hearing and support of every fair-minded and social-minded American citizen. "Suffrage for women is just and I CHALLENGE ANY MAN TO QUOTE A SINGLE INSTANCE IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION WHEN A THING THAT WAS JUST DID NOT ALSO PROVE TO BE SOCIALLY BENEFICIAL. "Suffrage is just. It is, moreover, inevitable —and some day, soon, it will prove to America as a nation its high social value." RABBI NATHAN KRASS of Brooklyn, N. Y., says: "The minister stands primarily for 'righteousness and justice.' Hence he cannot make the compromises that others make. Believing in justice the minister must not hesitate to stand for justice, even at the risk of unpopularity. Woman suffrage is only on way to restore political justice in our democracy. A democracy means a rule of the people. Women are just as much a constituent part of the people as are the men. In real democracy the government RABBI HORACE J. WOLF, Rochester, N. Y. derives its power from the consent of the governed. It is plain that women ought to have a voice in determining how they shall be governed. "From a purely practical point of view it is also plain that there are many problems that come within the purview of government which women can solve much more satisfactorily than men, by virtue of their peculiar gifts along certain lines. The problems of housing, of sanitation, of morals specifically, can be tackled and conquered by the women because they have not been so hardened in the practical hurly-burly of life and because their vision is still illumined by sentiment that makes intuitively for the right. "Women will inject a moral element into politics. That coarse corruption associated with bar-rooms and dens of vice will be removed. Refinement and purity will take their place and a much higher tone and a loftier spirit will soon be manifest. The cheap talk about the desertion of the home if women get the ballot is inane. Voting takes place at such long intervals that the home will not suffer at all. "True democracy demands equal suffrage." RABBI RUDOLPH J. COFFEE, Ph. D. of Chicago, bears this testimony: "From my observations, both in this state and California, I can assure you that woman has a wholesome influence in politics. While in California, on four different occasions since women have been voting, I made extensive inquiries and have yet to find a single individual who would deprive women of the vote and return to former conditions." Rabbi Joseph Havesh says: "The women voters of Chicago use the [?] [telligently] than do the men [?] pure politics is led by the [?] As a result of woman suffrage [?] [ing] for moral improvement [?] strengthened." Rabbi Jacob Nieto, of Sa [?] [nia], sees a "maked change [?] women got the vote. Wom[?] efficiency for studying and [?] public importance. "You n[?] he writes, "it is well with [?] Rabbi Meyer, of San F[?] same statement and strength [?] there is "a deepening of [?] women have voted. Rabbi Felix Levy and Rab[?] Chicago, are convinced of [?] suffrage in their city. "Go[?] wives", says Rabbi Cohen o[?] the ballot for the purpose[?] homes and children - and in[?] their husbands - against the [?] [tagion] of immorality." Rabbi Stephe[?] A Progressive Advoca[?] Rabbi Horace J. [?] N. Y., who presented [?] resolution to the Central C[?] has just said: "I want to pay tribute [?] age and splendid [?] women who are working fo[?] I have watched them come [?] defeat in New York state [?] have seen them resume the [?] morning after an unsuccess[?] unflagging vigor that ough[?] even from their opponents[?] rallied to the fight for clean [?] women have gathered, year[?] the cause of complete d[?] politics would cease to be a[?] this opportunity to express [?] their fighting qualities." The Woman Citizen For the Sake of Practical Christianity Freedman's Aid Society, Cincinnati, Ohio; Davis G. Downey, D.D., Book Editor of Methodist Book Concern, New York City; George Elliott, D.D., Minister, Mt. Clemens, Michigan. JUDGE HENRY WADE ROGERS, of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, introduced this resolution and advocated its adoption with remarks that hewed to the line, while the chips flew. He said that the act proposed was, in his opinion, an act of justice. He did not propose to take time to make an argument, for no argument was needed. He appealed to a General Conference that represents a Church that, through quadrennium after quadrennium and through generation after generation, had filed its indictment against human slavery, and piled anathema upon anathema in its denunciation of the liquor traffic. He offered the resolution because he believed that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and not from the consent of half of the governed; because he believed in government for the people and by the people, and not by half of the people; because in his judgment women need the ballot for the same reasons that men need it; because women are entitled to have a share in the making of the laws that regulate their lives, and the lives of their children, laws that impose taxes upon their property, and laws under which they and their children may be sentenced to death. "I CANNOT explain the opposition to woman suffrage on the part of educated people except on the ground of prejudice," writes Willian T. Dumm of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Superintendent of Wyoming State Methodist Conference. "In my judgment the dignity and personal piety of woman is enhanced by the exercise of the right of suffrage and in my experience of twelve years in the state my opinion is that the moral character of the women of Wyoming will compare favorably with the women of other states in which I have lived, in Massachusetts and Ohio. "Finally it is my candid opinion that there is very little reasonable argument against woman suffrage and much that can be said in its favor. Personally, I am a firm believer in the theory that it will work out satisfactorily in practical life. It is a step in advance and it will finally win out in every state which desires real progress in moral and civic affairs." "I CAME to Montana thirty years ago," says J. A. Martin, Superintendent of the North Montana Methodist Episcopal Conference, "and I want to tell you that conditions have changed more than I can possibly say for the better since women have had the use of the ballot. We have sentiment here today that we have never had before for better morals. "Our Attorney General, who was elected through the woman's vote, has just sent out orders to close every restricted vice district in Montana, and they are closed, believe me. We also got prohibition last November through the woman's vote. We rejoice in the new condition of affairs." AN equally strong sentiment in favor of woman suffrage is held by another Methodist district Superintendent, B. E. Konntz of Spokane, Washington. "Moral conditions," he writes, "have greatly improved in every instance where women have had the right to vote. No man of any standing in any western community will deny the fact that women voters have given moral tone to every civic movement." THE Rev. Arthur Jamieson, of the Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, declares that he is "in most hearty sympathy with the movement which seeks to give women the right to register at the polls their opinion on civic and national affairs. I cannot see on what ground we can refuse the demand that women be allowed to vote. The arguments against it do not appear to me to have sufficient ground in reason. We have no right to refuse a demand so well founded in reason." DR. ARTHUR JAMIESON OF NEW YORK DR. J. D. GILLELAN, Superintendent Boise District of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Idaho, writes: "We have lived in Utah, Idaho and Oregon both before and after women voted. "the vote has elevated the polling places. This is an advantage to the men. It has made the women interested in the questions of the day. They are not a whit less womanly, their homes are none the less homelike, their children are no less cared for, and they need no extra care for their personal safety, attention and comfort, for our western men are still chivalrous and womanhood is still the most sacred of our possessions. I have never heard of a woman being insulted at the polls, for, very few of the "bad" sort ever find their way thither and even such are disenfranchised in Idaho. "Our state prison is rapidly falling off in (Continued of page 398) October 20, 1917 391 Justice, and No Compromise The following resolution, introduced by Rabbi Horace J. Wolf, was adopted by the Central Conference of American Rabbis, July 4, 1917: WHEREAS, The Central Conference of American Rabbis recognizes the justice of thoroughgoing democracy, and WHEREAS, The Central Conference of American Rabbis recognizes that in a country which upholds democratic ideas and principles it is unethical and unjust to shut out women from active participation in choosing its leaders, and WHEREAS, The Jewish people have reason to know the hardship and bitterness of unjust and proscriptive political discrimination, and WHEREAS, In peace and in war women have always shown their loyalty, patriotism, and eagererness to serve their country in every possible way, be it RESOLVED, That we, American Rabbis in Central Conference assembled, hereby feel it to be our solemn duty as ethical leader of our various communities, preachers of a religion, which has stood throughout the centuries for justice and RABBI LOUIS J. KOPOLD righteousness, to assert our belief in the justice and righteousness of the enfranchisement of the women of our country. " I BELIEVE in suffrage for women in America, because I believe in justice," wrote Rabbi Louis Kopold of Buffalo, on Oct. 2. "It is true that to give the vote to the women of our land can be proved to be socially expedient; but I refuse to decend to mere expediency as the basis of suffrage, when the fundamental appeal of Justice should demand the sympathetic hearing and support of every fair-minded and social-minded American citizen. "Suffrage for women is just and I CHALLENGE ANY MAN TO QUOTE A SINGLE INSTANCE IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION WHEN A THING THAT WAS JUST DID NOT ALSO PROVE TO BE SOCIALLY BENEFICIAL. "Suffrage is just. It is, moreover, inevitable -and some day, soon, it will prove to America as a nation its high social value." RABBI NATHAN KRASS of Brooklyn, N. Y., says: "The minister stands primarily or 'righteousness and justice.' Hence he cannot make the compromises that others make. Believing in justice the minister must not hesitate to stand for justice, even at the risk of unpopularity. Woman suffrage is only one way to restore political justice in our democracy. A democracy means a rule of the people. Women are just as much a constituent part of the people as are the men. In real democracy the government RABBI HORACE J. WOLF, Rochester, N. Y. derives its power from the consent of the governed. It is plain that women ought to have a voice in determining how they shall be governed. "From a purely practical point of view it is also plain that there are many problems that come with the purview of government which women can solve much more satisfactorily than men, by virtue of their peculiar gifts along certain lines. The problems of housing, of sanitation, of morals specifically, can be tackled and conquered by the women because they have not been so hardened in the practical hurly-burly of life and because their vision is still illumined by sentiment that makes intuitively for the right. "Women will inject a moral element into politics. That coarse corruption associated with bar-rooms and dens of vice will be removed. Refinement and purity will take their place and a much higher tone and a loftier spirit will soon be manifest. The cheap talk about the desertion of the home if women get the ballot is inane. Voting takes place at such long intervals that the home will not suffer at all. "True democracy demands equal suffrage." RABBI RUDOLPH J. COFFEE, Ph. D. of Chicago, bears this testimony: "From my observations, both in this state and California, I can assure you that woman has a wholesome influence in politics. While in California, on four different occasions since women have been voting, I made extensive inquiries and have yet to find a single individual who would deprive women of the vote and return to former conditions." Rabbi Joseph Havesh says: "The women voters of Chicago use the vote much more intelligently than do the men. The campaign for pure politics is led by the best types of women. As a result of woman suffrage the forces working for moral improvement have been greatly strengthened." Rabbi Jacob Nieto, of San Francisco, California, sees a "marked change" in that state since women got the vote. Women are developing an efficiency for studying and handling problems of public importance. "You may say to the East," he writes, "it is well with the West." Rabbi Meyer, of San Francisco, echoes the same statement and strengthens it by adding that there is "a deepening of civic sensibility since women have voted. Rabbi Felix Levy and Rabbi Samuel Cohen of Chicago, are convinced of the moral value of suffrage in their city. "Good mothers and good wives," says Rabbi Cohen of Zion Temple, "use the ballot for the purpose of protecting their homes and children-and in some instances even their husbands-against the spread of the contagion of immorality." RABBI STEPHEN WISE A Progressive Advocate of Suffrage RABBI HORACE J. WOLF of Rochester, N. Y., who presented the woman suffrage resolution to the Central Conference of Rabbis has just said: "I WANT to pay tribute to the tireless courage and splendid persistence of the women who are working for the suffrage cause. I have watched them come up smiling after their defeat in New York state and elsewhere. I have seen them resume their struggle the next morning after an unsuccessful election with an unflagging vigor that ought to win admiration even from their opponents. If men could be rallied to the fight for clean government as these women have gathered, year in and year out, to the cause of complete democracy, American politics would cease to be a byword. I welcome this opportunity to express my great respect for their fighting qualities." Glory of Shabbiness in England To the Editor of The Herald: A friend's son has lately returned from England to New York. The thing he noted was every one was spick, span and "new-looking." In England every one was shabby. He preferred the shabbiness, because, he said, it showed the people knew they had a tough fight on and they were putting their money, not on their backs, but into defense bonds and stamps. They were one with the lady who, asked what she did with her old clothes, said: "I take them off at night and put them on in the morning." The young man from England told of the old people whose son was coming home to London, a soldier. They felt ashamed to go up and see him in their shabby clothes; but it was war; so they pressed them and went. When they got out of the train and into the streets they became aware that every one was shabby. They suddenly felt themselves in a vast brotherhood. The word "fraternity" burned with new meaning, and thus, shining in the glory of a great shabbiness, they met their son. ELIZABETH TILTON. Winter Park, Fla. [*Boston Herald— Mar. 17, 1950.*] Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton, Crusader For National Prohibition, Dies WINTER PARK, Fla., March 16 —Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton of Cambridge, for nearly 40 years a tireless campaigner for prohibition, died yesterday at her winter home here after a long illness. She was 81. A convinced feminist and foe of alcohol, Mrs. Tilton until recent years had been one of the nation's most active opponents of the liquor industry, engaging in public debates and writing many books, articles and letters to newspapers to further her cause. While assuming leadership in temperance organizations, including the Anti-Saloon League, she eschewed public office. In 1930 a group of church and temperance leaders in Massachusetts urged her to become a candidate for the U. S. Senate, but she refused. She was born March 13, 1869, in Salem, Mass., the daught[e]er of James T. and Eleanor Fox (Jewett) Hewes, and attended Radcliffe College. She was married Jan. 10, 1911, to William Tilton of Cambridge, who survives her. Since 1912 she had devoted much of her time and energy to woman suffrage, and later to prohibition and the peace movement. She was organization chairman of the Massachusetts Woman's Suffrage Association, in 1918, and a director of the Women's National Committee for Law Enforcement and of the National Anti-Saloon League. INTEREST IN EDUCATION At the height of the struggle between the "wet" and "dry" forces, she assisted in organizing and became chairman of the Women's National Committee for Education Against Alcohol. She also was president of the Unitarian Temperance Society of the American Unitarian Association. Another of her interests was education. She was chairman of the legislation committee of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers from 1921 to 1931, and chairman of the Radio Education Committee of Washington, D. C. She was the author of "Turning Off the Spigot," 1914; and "Save America," 1924, and contributed to the Woman's Journal, Current History, and other publications. A hard-hitting antagonist, Mrs. Tilton never hesitated to engage any opponent, and her language was always forthright and emphatic. A typical statement of hers in her battle for prohibition, or what she termed "the crusade for respectability," was: "The truth is the Puritans suppressed a great many things that ought to be suppressed, and we are living today on the dividends that such suppressions pay." Sometimes her plain language brought repercussions, as once, in 1925, when Judge James M. Morton of the U. S. district court rebuked her for what he termed an attempt to influence his decision in a liquor case. She had written to the judge asking him to put an end to "puerile technicalities" in a case brought against Mayor Quigley of Chelsea and 43 others charged with conspiracy. FOUGHT AMENDMENT Mrs. Tilton threw herself unreservedly into the struggle to defeat Alfred E. Smith for President in 1928, calling on the women of Massachusetts to "stop this loose and perverted thinking." "It is about time," she said in a hot statement, "for the women to ask themselves whether we want to uphold the ideals that keep the body politic wholesome for boys and girls, or do we want to retreat to the political morals of Tammany Hall?" Her opposition to Gov. Smith was based largely on the latter's views on the return of legalized liquor and during the early 1930's, Mrs. Tilton fought a gallant, if losing, action against the repeal amendment. When Maine was about to vote on the amendment, she said: "If Maine goes wet it means that the corkscrew wins for the moment over character. It means that the real problem of America is to stage a character comeback." Although she saw her dearest cause lost in 1933, Mrs. Tilton continued to repeat her slogan, "Re-Puritanize or perish," until failing health in the mid-30's curtailed her activities. She resigned from the Anti-Saloon League, but kept up for a long time her connection with the Women's National Committee for Education Against Alcohol. This organization was a group of 30 women who wrote letters to newspapers and attempted to get newspaper publicity for the prohibition cause. Mrs. Tilton herself was one of Boston's busiest writers of "letters to the editor." In one of her last public interviews she predicted that it would not be long before prohibition would come back. "Our task," she said, "is to keep the ideals warm. Quietly, we hold the saving remnant. You've got to let people begin to suffer. Soon a new army will arise, an army of youth who have suffered in the homes of the lady drunkards. There is an overabundance today of the lady drunkard." [*Elizabeth T. Hon*] [*C. Reg. April 1950*] Elizabeth Tilton Elizabeth Tilton, Unitarian feminist and temperance crusader, was born March 13, 1869 in Salem, Mass., and passed away at her winter home in Winter Park, Florida, on March 15, 1950. On January 10, 1911, she was united in marriage with William Tilton of Cambridge, Mass., who survives her. Since 1912 Mrs. Tilton devoted much of her time and energy to the causes of woman suffrage, peace, education and Prohibition. She served in the past thirty years as organization chairman of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, a director of the Women's National Committee for Law Enforcement, a director of the Anti-Saloon League of America, chairman of the Women's National Committee for Education Against Alcohol, president of the Unitarian Temperance Society, chairman of the legislation committee of the National Congress of Parent and Teachers, and chairman of the Radio Education Committee of Washington, D.C. She was author of "Turning Off the Spigot" (1914), "Save America" (1924), and contributed to the Woman's Journal, Current History, and other publications. Mrs. Tilton was a gallant fighter, a hard-hitting opponent. Her convictions were expressed in plain, forthright and emphatic language. Undaunted by the defeat of National Prohibition, she continued her crusade "to uphold the ideals that keep the body politic wholesome for boys and girls." She predicted the early return of Prohibition. "Our task," she said in one of her last public interviews, "is to keep the ideals warm. Quietly, we hold the saving remnant. You've got to let people begin to suffer. Soon a new army will arise, an army of youth who have suffered in the homes of lady drunkards." "Re-Puritanize or perish" was her slogan, and to the end she was firmly convinced that America must stage a character comeback based upon Puritan ideals. W. H. G. BOSTON HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 191[*9*] Declares That Women Can Add to Health if Not to Business in Political Life Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton Proposes Organization of New Voters Into Committees to Guard Childhood Women will make good in politics if caught young enough so that they enter the political arena with a very clarified vision of what special things they have to give, and if the real women leaders can be organized to pass on to followers in their district the tradition that women enter politics to serve in the particular directions where women's knowledge becomes expert. Thus did Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton of Boston, organization chairman of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, answer a question that is becoming a topic of suffrage rallies, one held at the summer home of Mrs. Charles Bond of Boston in Swampscott and another held yesterday at the Berry Tavern, Danvers. Mrs. Tilton is interested in forming a women-voters committee to work for certain ideals, which she explains herewith. "In my work through this state for various causes," said Mrs. Tilton, "I have seen that 99,000 of the people never take the least interest in a cause. All they do is to acquiesce in it when it comes. A cause is won round three groups—the little group for; the little group opposed and a third group, the opinion-makers of the district, usually leaders of groups. "The United States Brewers' Association believed there were about 150,000 opinion-makers in the country. They surveyed each district, came away with the list of opinion-makers of the district and circularized these, constantly averring that the group that got there won. I believe that to be true. Votes are made out of certain ingredients, namely, out of the opinions of the natural leaders of a town—a few men—the mass acquiescing in the judgement of the few. Women Can Make Good "Now women will make good in politics if we can organize the real women WOMEN WILL MAKE GOOD IN POLITICS IF CAUGHT YOUNG ENOUGH. [?]em pass on to the [?]trict the tradition [?]tics to serve in the [?]ections where women's [?]ecomes expert. [?]rock here will be that you have [?]nds of women to deal with. In [?]nd I have always separated the [?] who work outside their homes [?]wo classes: women who go in for [?]nes and women who go in for [?]es. There will be the woman who [?]scheming for self-exploration, the [?]over of little power, carrying the itch to be a little power lobbyist round the State House, precisely as there are men. I know her already. I dread her, but we must accept this little minnow. She will dart and play politics as do the men. "But outside her world there are throughout this state many, many women deeply concerned over the civic life of their town—the maiden aunts of the nation, as Jane Addams called them. They have the leisure and the hearts of mothers enlarged to touch the race. Now it is these women you want to organize if women are to make good in politics. The townspeople respect this quiet, modest, devoted woman—working in the charities of her home city. The citizens know she has real expert knowledge to give of the needs of her towns and state. No Hope of a Third Party "This woman will seek her own party— for I have no hope of the women holding a third party—but, if you organize these women now, I believe, they can take into whatever party they choose a clarified vision of what politics, when rightly led, can produce for the race, which will be nothing short of race-salvation. Women cannot add much to business in politics, but they can add to health in politics. "I think so often these days when we are talking so much of a league of nations, what boots the settlement of Europe if the day is not far off when the European white race becomes so weakened that any healthy race can overcome it? Already France is an invalid nation, riddled with tuberculosis, alcoholism and venereal diseases. And the other nations are pointing backward in their birth rates. Here we have something the matter with nearly one-half of our school children. Witness the figures of the draft. "I believe that if we can form a committee on health composed of the real, the quiet women workers of this state now, and make them vow a certain vow, women here will make good in politics. The vow must be that they go in to specialize in the things that they know: the health of the race; right conditions for women who toll; right conditions for the baby to be born into; right conditions for the child in the school. They must be beconsecrated to taking this into the muddy streams of all political parties and to fighting on through the sloughs of many defeats to the goal of a rejuvenated birth-rate. FOR A HEALTH COMMITTEE "In a few weeks I am going to ask the suffragists in the state and all women's organizations to contemplate forming now a health committee. Its first act should be this: that we get every man now, who is going to run, to take with him to Beacon Hill first a vote to have a director of physical education appointed in our state, who WE CANNOT LIFT THE DECREASING HEALTH OF THE WHITE RACE TILL EVERY BABY IS WEIGHED AND MEASURED shall see that every child is taught simple health habits; second, a vote to have this director authorized to see that every town or group of villages has one or more school doctors and nurses. About 180 towns have nothing of this sort now because the law leaves it to the local authorities and they fail to act. "We cannot really lift the declining health of the white race until every child is weighed and measured. Then, and then only, do you know where you are. All children must be taught good health habits, but the under-fed children, revealed by the weighing, must be weeded out and given through the aid of the school nurse necessary corrective treatment. The Eastman kodak firm of Rochester, N. Y., has given to their town enough dental clinics to keep in condition all the teeth of the children in Rochester. Nobody can compute the asset in health and manhood--and wealth in the end-- that this gift means. A Glorified Clean-up "Women who have scrubbed the floors all down the ages must now enter politics consecrated to scrubbing and rubbing at the health of the race. It must be a sort of glorified clean-up and paint-up campaign--something the scrubber of the race understands. "Put this clarified program, bill by bill, into the minds of the women of the state and they will make good. But let the entrance into politics just happen and the stream of the real thing that woman has to give will be lost.. "I do hope that every woman will begin to organize, soon to pour pure health campaigns into each party. I am sure if she wants guidance the Boston Equal Suffrage Association will soon be able to give it and I hope many other organizations. The way to learn is to roll up your sleeves and scrub behind the primaries Mr. Do-It-Now is the Great Teacher." INVESTOR [?]L, Financial Editor -ings of next year, which should far surpass anything the mills have hitherto enjoyed. Is More Optimism Regarding Mexican Properties Justified? When speculation shifted somewhat from the steel issues yesterday, the oil Some Will Itch To Be A Little Power Lobbyist Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.