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Show THAT REIGN OF TERROR BY THE WOMEN The militant suffragettes of England are creating a reign ol terror in their campaign intended to force the right of suffrage from the British parlm menl Dynamite outrages have been perpetrated, beautiful homes have been burned and even members of the British cabinet have been attacked The situation is growing so despera' that those (harped with protecting life and property are considering the advisability of resorting to severe measures ev 1 the use of the rpgular soldiers with fixed bayonets and load ed guns The head of Scotland Yard, in re viewing the work of the '.vomen nihi lists, said 'The crisis has been reached in the English women's war. Not since the I hartisl auitatlon immortalized bj Kingsley and Dickens, has such fierce ei been aroused over a purely political question, "Strance ns it ma appear there ..re many in England tonight both men and women, who applaud the de flant anarchism of the militant suffrage suf-frage nihilists, many of these titled and In high places and people who would ordinarily be held up as model subjects of his gracious majesty the king, and firm upholders of law and order. "The madness of Franchise fever' has infected all classes Both among the littie band of militants in the in timate confidence of a woman just ceutenepd to serve three years penal servitude it lias produced a phase of political paranoa This has been unknown un-known in England since the historic affair of Guy Fawkes. and it exceeds in virulcn'. vehemence even the des peration and destruction produced among the women of Paris in i he-worst he-worst period of the French revolt! lion." The women are proceeding on the assumption that no reforms can be obtained in England without violence. Their desperate ads offer Justifies lion to our own McNamaras who, be lleving that unionism could not combat com-bat capitalism by peaceful methods, had inaugurated a campaign of dyna miting, But outrages such as the women of England and (he structural iron vorkers of the United Slates have employed are wrong and should be ondimned. If lawlessness is to become be-come an accepted means of obtaining that which a pan of the commuui terms a reform and ardently desires it will not be iong before orderly gov-erumenl gov-erumenl must be displaced by a U cession of terrorizing abuse3. |