I think women have been rather slow in taking advantage of the vote. That is not criticism, however, for never has any group of people since history began more seriously engaged in preparation to use the vote properly. [image: Jane Addams] I think women are taking their enfranchisement seriously. They are doing everything possible to exercise their voting power conscientiously.
I have been asked my views regarding prohibition. I am not now and have never been a member of the Anti-Saloon League. It is not the time, as yet, to say that enforcement has failed. Frankly I do not believe that it has failed.
The Eighteenth Amendment should have the same opportunity as the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, which fared so badly in certain sections for two generations. People declared then that these amendments never could be enforced, yet there are few in this country today who would advocate a withdrawal of them. It is the same with prohibition.
I think that conditions today, as a result of prohibition are infinitely better than they ever have been in this country. I have worked for many years among the Greeks and Italians in Chicago, but prohibition in that locality was never a serious matter for they knew how to use their wine. It is the [whiskey] drinking that was the curse of America, and letting down the barriers the least trifle would mean the return of [whiskey].
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