To the President, Cabinet officers, Senators, and Representatives of the United States concerning the enforcement of the eighteenth amendment:
We, the undersigned, believing that the welfare of the people can best be served by the strictest enforcement of the prohibition law, desire to express to you our earnest wish to cooperate with you in bringing about adequate enforcement.
Recognizing that this can be accomplished only when prohibition enforcement is placed in the hands of those who desire its success, we commend every effort you may make to remove prohibition from politics by placing the service under the merit system.
You are doubtless aware that prohibition is, after all, only following the normal course of history, all great reforms having taken from one to two generations before they were well enforced. Prohibition is now in that period. The new idea must slowly age into custom. But even in its incipient state the benefits are marked while the failures can be righted by a determined people, educated concerning the evils of alcohol, and supported by a Government emphatic in its demands that enforcement of the law shall be in the hands of its friends and that officials once appointed shall pursue a vigorous campaign against all violations of the liquor law no matter where found.
We affirm that there is no solution in the return of so-called light wines and strengthen the law where needed and support officials who do their duty. To this end we pledge our hearty cooperation not only for the enforcement of the law but for the building of intelligent public sentiment for law observance.
Signed (signatures personal not official):
Miss Jane Addams, Hull House, Chicago; Mrs. Frederick P. Abbott, Saco. Me. (former president State Federation of Women's Clubs); Mrs. Kate Trenholm Abrams, Washington, D.C. (General Federation of Women's Clubs, vice chairman, legislation); Mrs. Lucien High Alexander, Philadelphia. Pa. (Women's Law Enforcement Committee); Mrs. Fred S. Bennett, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City (vice president Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church); Mrs. Glendolen Talbot Bens, New York City (president New York Women's Law Enforcement Committee); Mrs. T. W. Bickett, Raleigh, N.C. (superintendent Public Welfare); Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird, E. Walpole, Mass. (National Republican Committeewoman, Massachusetts); Mrs. Lucretia L. Blankenburg, Philadelphia, Pa. (honorary vice president general Federation Women's Clubs); Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Durchester, Mass. (honorary president Massachusetts League of Women Voters); Mrs. Ella A. Boole, Brooklyn, N.Y. (national president Women's Christian Temperance Union); Mrs. Mary A. Burnham, Philadelphia, [page 3] Pa. (vice chairman Republican Women, Philadelphia County).
Mrs. Carrle Chapman Catt, New York City (former president National Woman's Suffrage Association); Mrs. Cornelia Cannon, Cambridge, Mass. (writer); Mrs. O. P. Clark, Los Angeles, Calif. (National Republican Committee Woman from California); Mrs. V. E. Fahnestock, Philadelphia, Pa. (magistrate); Mrs. Herman Ferger, Chattanooga, Tenn. (president Tennessee Parent-Teacher Association); Mrs. Elizabeth R. Ferguson, Philadelphia, Pa. (president Philadelphia County W.C.T.U.); Mrs. Irving Fisher, New Haven, Conn.; Mrs. Harry Howard Foster, Little Rock, Ark. (member National Republican Committee from Arkansas); Mrs. Charles R. Fox, Cincinnati, Ohio (president Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs); Mrs. Joseph Garibaldi, Greensboro, N.C. (editor North Carolina Parent-Teacher Bulletin); Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam, Philadelphia, Pa. (president Women's Philadelphia Law Enforcement Committee); Mrs. Mae T. Gladstone, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mrs. William E. Hardy, Lincoln, Nebr. (State Federation of Women's Clubs); Miss Mary Garrett Hay, New York City (former city chairman Woman's Suffrage Party, New York City); Mrs. S. H. Jennings, South Carolina (president South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs); Mrs. B. F. Langworthy, Winnetka, Ill. (President Woman's City Club); Mrs. A. Haines Lippincott (chairman New Jersey Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement); Mrs. J. B. [Lorber], Santa Monica, Calif. (president Los Angeles District Federation of Women's Clubs); Mrs. S. M. N. Marrs, Austin, Tex. (former president Texas Parent-Teacher Association); Mrs. Frank W. Mason, Maine; Mrs. G. M. Mathes, Chicago, Ill. (director Illinois Christian Citizenship Council).
Mrs. [Catharine] Waugh McCulloch, Chicago, Ill. (master in chancery, superior court, Chicago); Mrs. Charles McDuffie, Alton, N.H. (former president New Hampshire Federation of Women's Clubs); Mrs. Mark P. Mears, Chicago, Ill. (vice president Woman's City Club); Mrs. Will Minier, Oakland, Nebr. (vice president Nebraska Federation of Women's Clubs); Mrs. Helen [B.] Montgomery, Rochester, N.Y. (former president New York Federation of Women's Clubs); Mrs. White L. Moss, Pineville, Ky.; Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, Detroit, Mich. (leader of missionary groups at Woman's Peace Conference, Washington, D.C.); Mrs. Gordon Norrie, Staatsburg, N.Y. (vice president Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement); Mrs. Imogen Oakley, Philadelphia, Pa. (General Federation, Department of Civil Service); Mrs. George Thomas Palmer, Springfield, Ill. (president Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs); Dr. Valeria H. Parker, New York City; Mrs. Percy V. [Pennybacker], Washington, D.C. (former president General Federation of Women's Clubs); Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, Harrisburg, Pa.; Mrs. O. Plalork, Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. Charles I. Purnell, Philadelphia, Pa. (president Women's Clubs and Allied Organizations); Mrs. Raymond Robins, Washington, D.C. (president Women's National Trade-Union League); Mrs. William Jay Schieffelin, New York City; Mrs. Norman [Sharp], Atlanta, Ga. (president Atlanta Women's Club); Mrs. [L.] Louise Sheedy, Philadelphia, Pa. (Woman's Philadelphia Committee for Law Enforcement); Mrs. John [D.] Sherman, Washington, D.C. (president General Federation of Women's Clubs); Mrs. [Katharine] Silverthorn, New York City (president Federation of Women's Board of Foreign Missions).
Mrs. F. Louis Slade, New York City; Mrs. Mellecen Thurman Smith, St. Louis, Mo.; Miss Ethel M. Smith, Washington, D.C. (secretary Women's Trade-Union League); Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, Des Moines, Iowa (vice president National Women's Christian Temperance Union); Mrs. Eva [C.] Speare, Alton, N.H. (president New Hampshire Federation of Women's Clubs); Mrs. Henry A. Slayton, Morrisville, Vt. (director general Federation for Vermont); Mrs. W. R. Stone, Bristol, Tenn. (vice president [page 4] Tennessee Parent-Teacher Association); Mrs. W. H. Swift, North Carolina (president North Carolina Parent-Teacher Association); Mrs. Helen R. Thayer, Portsmouth, N.H.; Mrs. Henry C. Taylor, Bloomfield, Iowa; Mrs. Elizabeth H. Tilton, Cambridge, Mass. (national chairman Legislation Congress of Parents and Teachers); Mrs. J. C. [Urquhart], Los Angeles, Calif. (chairman Department of Conservation Natural Resources, California Federation of Women's Clubs); Mrs. Frank Vanderlip, New York City; Mrs. Arthur Watkins, Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Edward Franklin White, Indianapolis, Ind. (vice president General Federation Women's Clubs); Mrs. Alice Ames Winter, Minneapolis, Minn. (former president general Federation Women's Clubs); Mrs. Mary E. Woolley, South Hadley, Mass. (president Mount Holyoke College).
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