Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-04-11 | Page 2 | Suffragette War Chest is Increased

SUFFRAGETTE Will CHEST JSJNGBEASED Mrs. Flora Drummond Enthuses En-thuses the Militant Sisters by Her Announcement. LONDON, April 10. "Our answer to tiie government's 'cat and mouse' bill Is 15,000 added to our war cheat," said "General" Flora Drummond, In closing clos-ing the suffragette meeting at Albert hall over which she presided. It was tho biggest big-gest meeting ever held by the Women's Social and Political union. The subscriptions Included two for 1500 (57500) each, and two for 1000 each. Among the American contributors were Mrs. August Belmont and Mrs. J. J. White of New York and Miss Scott-Troy Scott-Troy of San Francisco. Great laughter greeted the announcement announce-ment of a subscription of half a crown, accompanied by a bogus note signed by the chancellor of tho exchequer, JDavld Lloyd-George. The note read: "I have great pleasure in presenting to you my first dividend from my Marconi Wireless shares." In opening tho meeting, Mrs. Drummond Drum-mond said: "Fight on! Fight on! That is the mcssago that Mrs. Pankhurst would send us from Ilolloway Jail, were she able to get It out and fight on Is what we Intend In-tend to do." Mrs. Drummond made a great, hit by quoting Incendiary passages from the speeches of Sir Edward Carson, Andrew Boriar Law and Frederick E. Smith on the Ulster question, substituting for "men" the word "women," and for "Ulster," "Ul-ster," "votes for women." "Since tho government did not arrest these politicians for such Incitements to violence," she said, "I presume that It Is safe for me to repeat what they said, with tho slight changes made.'' When a bouquet from Miss Zclle mer-son mer-son was handed to Mrs. Drummond, there was an outburst of cheering. George Lansbury. former Socialist member of the house of commons, demanded de-manded the immediate release of Mrs. Pankhurst and her fellow prisoners and abandonment of the "torture of forcible feeding." He urged the militants to continue con-tinue to burn and destroy property. "If a leader Is taken away," he said, "let a dozen women step forward and take her place. This Is a war in which wo Rhall do our best to preservo human life, but show no regard for property of any kind."