Many people of Illinois did not feel that women should speak out about what they believed in. A example of this is shown in an interview with Mark Hanna, who was a high government official in 1900. He said, " If women are going to waste their opportunities over inferior work for which in they are unfitted they will fail in the grosser undertaking of caucuses and political campaigns." His opinion was that women had no right in demonstrating their beliefs and that they should stay at home and rear children instead of trying to change the world (Hanna on Women Suffrage pg 2).

"Cigarette Crusades." Illinois State Journal. 16 May 1900: 4

"Not a Foe to the Canteen." Du Quoin Weekly Tribune. 5 October 1900: 1

The temperance movement had started a decade earlier during the women's crusades. Led by Francis Willard, the temperance movement became a great political issue. Public sentiment was strongly in favor of prohibition, but the government was reluctant to enforce the Prohibition Act, in part because the sale of Liquor was a major source of tax income. A decade after 1900 was when prohibition was finally gaining ground in "the man's world of politics" (Temperance Movement to Meet pg 1).

"Women and Home." Du Quoin Weekly Tribune. 23 March 1900: 3

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