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with poverty. Their thought was that if you could just take the demon rum out of the picture a lot of other poverty would fall away. Whereas my generation came along and thought that demon rum was only one of many things and that the temptation to demon rum was based upon pre-existing poverty, pre-existing ill health, bad housing, lack of opportunity for any form of recreation of any chance to get up in the world, and other similar conditions.

I don't think they converted too many people of my generation and my circle to their way of thinking. But out in the country the Woman's Christian Temperance Union movement was very, very strong. The woman who was head of the New York movement, Mrs. Lee - I forget her last name, a nice woman, was a fanatic on the subject of demon rum. But the Woman's Temperance Union was one of the organizations you could depend on to back your child labor legislation. They always were against child labor. Among their leaders were people who knew you ought to attack the problem of poverty in a great many ways, even though they thought that the demon rum was the worst of all. They would always be for our legislation which was a great help in the days when not too many people were for it.

The suffrage movement was, of course, very dynamic in those days and very fluid - anything went. There must