Show i IN N CIVILIZED ENGLAND I A A few days ago ego The T Herak referred I 1 to to the remarkable campaign of oC tHe Ute J Woman suffrages of England in their i determination to secure the fulfillment IiI of ut C ant pledges from the Lib Liberal J I eral erd party It was noted that extraordinary police pollee punishment had hud been I mElted mated out to the women agitators al although although though ost of them hem are women of o I prominence socially of high education educational al I attainments and awl otherwise entitled I to respectful re pe if not considerate treat treatment men ment mentA t tA I i A report just juit to hand of the Ute proceed proceedings proceedings I ings ings in lit M a Manchester meeting s seems f ems almost Incredible as ail illustrating the brutality of the reception accorded these t women It may be he true that I they the were themselves the beyond ond their rights In ht interrupting a public meet meeting meeting meetIng ing but an audience of American men even the toughest audience to be found in this thia country would hardly be guilty of ot such conduct Here lIere is the report of the meeting almost almo t verbatim ver front from a Manchester newspaper Mi w Illy Uly 1 Ib Parkhurst returned from Man Iao Manchester rhe chester t r with a 8 black eye Mrs 4 tori tOl to with the marks of a mans man fingers fingerson fill er erOR on OR Miss lIss Alice Mime Milne with a 1 wrenched ankle sOld and Mi Miss s Gawthorpe with witha a battered fHI TV T These e ws i ladies made up a committee ee of the fight fighting S ing in w went nt to Man lan t 1 J cheater oke to Mr W V ston Churchill the colonial secretary who was WitS down for Cor fora Cora a speech Mr rr answers to a apHa pHa of woman suffrage questions sub submitted submitted by the committee failed to satisfy the ladles ladies and Miss Mi lla Parkhurst began tean a ap p j shrill excoriation of the speaker In Instantly InI I she was surrounded by liy b several men one of or whom knocked her down and the others kicked her Miss Gawthorpe and Miss Mime Milne climbed t on th the press table and cried shame only L to be thrown off dragged out of the half hair Jr Miss lis Gawthorpe feinted fainted and would I have been seriously serious injured but that some someI I men passing in the street came me to her rescue Meantime Mrs Ir Chatterton was vas 1 almost strangled by hy one oUt of the men who her and aud forced her beck back Into her herse 4 seat sest se t The Tue ladies declare that the mana mama managers mamaj j gets gen of or the meeting had made up their t I i to treat the committee with vio yb I lence before Mr Ir Churchill spoke and OO that the attack and brutality wa w was really unprovoked It was a far rougher expert experience I H I ence than their repulse on the opening lay tey of parliament and it was wea a wonder weeder they the assert that someone was not kill killed k ed Nt Mr Churchill it appears made a hasty exit from the meeting the moment the scrimmage began bean and disclaim disclaims any personal in the affair or any p knowledge that such rough tactics hail hailI I been determined on in advance American men in polities are some sometimes times guilty of vicious conduct but no noi i i meeting in this country ever cyer produced I such shameful outrages and any at at such a thins thing would be mot mat with instant and violent retaliation on oni i I the It is no wonder that tho the 1 I women engaged In the tue campaign have i succeeded In arousing public senti sentiment iA ment to a pitch where their treatment l ia 18 II likely to become an issue in parlia parliament parliament ment mont and threaten the tho downfall of a party |