Show II Ii I United States ate Cannot Canot Interfere f fIT i I IT T is not probable that the United States government will wilLbe be isle tible 10 to ameliorate the tho condition of Miss Zelie Zelio Emerson the A American who is serving a two months sent sentence noe in an English jail for breaking windows during the course of the equal suffrage cam cain Her IIer condition as ns her friends describe it is pitiable but i it t must be admitted that it is due altogether to her own Emulating the obstinate P in iu the hunger strikes they have hae found so BO successful Miss Emerson refuses to eat and is being fed by heroic means which consist largely in injecting liquid food int into o her alimentary s system stem through the nose Englishmen resident in this country are e expected p to conform to our laws lows If one of them or his wife were to smash windows he would bo be subjected to the time punishment American statutes prescribe for malicious mischief No less can be bo anticipated for Americans America ns resident in Great Britain If Miss Emerson or any other overenthusiastic over over-en Yankee chooses to meddle in matters that are essentially none nODe of her concern she must be prepared to take the consequences American power in the matter is necessarily limited t to to- learning whether she is receiving humane treatment if so she must be bo left to depend upon her own resources It is evident from the outcry Miss Emerson is making that she is not of the tIle stuff of which martyrs are made When she embarked upon a campaign of property destruction she must have been aware that punishment would follow Had she sho been unwilling to accept the natural consequences of her course she should have havo confined her advocacy of equal suffrage to peaceful means The indecision displayed displayed dis dig played b by the British government in the early months of the suf fra- fra get atrocities emboldened the militant sisterhood to further excesses and nd the natural harvest is now being reaped One may sympathize with the American women who have bave run afoul of English laws on matters that should have had no intimate concern for them But our government cannot afford to go further than protect them from any cruel or unusual punishment And that certainly has not been visited upon them Indeed tho the English authorities authorities authorities au au- have hae sho shown n an amazing clemency that would scarcely have been j n expected under the tho circumstances E tea ta Cm hm n |