Show Mrs Foster on Prohibition CHICAGO June 22Mrs J Ellen Foster of Iowa chairman of the WomansNational Republican committee and well known as a Republican Prohibitionist was in this city today on her way homo from Rhode Island Speaking of the recent defeats in the east she said it was new evidence of the power and extent to which the liquor traffic has depraved the people of this country She denied that there had been a genuine test in Rhode Island and New Hampshire but added that in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania the contest was fair The Republican Repub-lican party in both stales said she declared de-clared for submission and redeemed its pledges The cmpaigns shosaid were necessarily nonpartisan No political party is responsible for the success of this political moral question Temperance people Mrs Foster said will keep right on the old lines of moral suasion works and nln the ofti is ripe and wont and the assumptions of the liquor power in politics reach a point beyond endurance an outraged people will sweep this American ogligarchy from the country Prohibition work said Mrs Foster will not be abandoned and all other legislative measures will b as transient as they believe this to be superficial su-perficial When asked if she was opposed to national tional prohibition she replied I believe it will be some time before being accomplished I accom-plished but I believe it will come when the ground is prepared for action |