Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-02-21 | Page 16 | Severe Punishment Invited

rM Il L r Severe Punishment Invited MRS SYLVIA should be taken at her word 01 1 by the British government g suspending sn as a preliminary her woman's womans 8 prerogative of nf changing it She gleefully e exults over the thc destruction by militant of the new nc home of the chancellor of the exchequer and declares she accepts full responsibility This statement and her offensive unlawful ful cr criminal conduct of the past Jast few years ear should hould divest English public officials of their chi chivalrous attitude c towards her and the leniency her sex has secured Tile The sacred designation of woman held heM by bythe the loyal Joyal Wives and the faithful Mothers lothers of the r race cc is not properly hers hems She has gender perhaps but hut no sex Masculine blatant and fliRT brazen she should hould be prosecuted as rigorously as would woul all any male offender Chancellor J Lloyd George has not deserved ill treatment at the hands of or England's Bug militant sisterhood If IC England has had a broad and benevolent nt statesman since Angles and md Saxons their char characteristics I into a sturdy race the tho present chancellor o of or the exchequer is that man mall Paternalistic measures measure of a breadth no American has ever e dreamed have hae been enacted into inlo the tile laws aw of Great Britain under hi his leadership and through h Ms hs influence J E has he taken the mothers of England under hi his care maternity bonuses and maternity pensions have hao resulted through his s efforts The Tile C 1 cause CAUSO of or womanhood has had his incessant cham championship He lie has merited none of the maltreatment mal mal- treatment he be ha has received cd and that reprisals should be directed against him pro proves m conclusively the absence in the suffragette breast of that logic that is necessary to tho the proper equipment of the voter The rhe antics of the British suffragettes arc in ih ill themselves irrefutable irrefutable able arguments against their being heing granted suffrage It is an amusing amusing amusing amus amus- ing paradox that tho those who wilo clamor for the right to help make and enforce the laws should be bc the most conspicuous s law lawbreakers of th tho present day They predicate their claims upon pos possession ess on of mature judgment while their whole campaign has been heen characterised by hy an utter lack of it I