Woman Suffrage and Prohibition
Thus the New York Voice speaks of "woman suffrage," and its effects on prohibition of the liquor traffic: "It has been freely predicted that woman suffrage would prove the 'enacting clause' of prohibition. But the fact is that in Kansas there was never at any time, during the eight or ten years of prohibition preceding the grant of municipal suffrage to women, such a letting down in the enforcement of the prohibitory law in cities as in the last few years. Of course we do not for a moment consider that municipal woman suffrage is to blame for this, but so far as we can see, it has had no marked tendency to prevent it." This will be rather discouraging to those who hoped that woman suffrage would settle the whisky question. Women are not all temperate or Prohibitionists.