The choice residential districts are voted dry for real estate reasons.

The men who do this, drink freely at their own clubs or parties.

The temperance question would be fruitlessly argued to the end of time were it not for the massive agricultural vote rolling and roaring round each metropolis, reawakening the town churches whose vote is a pitiful minority but whose spokesmen are occasionally strident.
There is a prophecy abroad that prohibition will be the issue of a national election.

If the question is squarely put, there are enough farmers and church-people to drive the saloon out of legal existence.

The women's vote, a little more puritanical than the men's vote, will make the result sure.