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Show POSSIBLE PAmniURST VISIT. There has been a good deal of discussion dis-cussion about tho visit to this country of Mrs. Paiikhurst, the militant suf-f suf-f ragotto leader in England. 'That visit, however, does not seem to bo especially imminent, because at last advices Mrs. Pa nk hurst was still in Paris, and the visit lo tho United Stntes was not mentioned. Somo Amcriaan newspapers aro bo embittered, against her that thoy suggest sug-gest that American dollars will bo what sho comoo for, and also the parado of her personality and work. This, however, how-ever, is not tho manly viow to tako of it. Why not imagine that Mrs. Pank-hurst Pank-hurst is coming lo this country to find out why it is that tho etiffrago movement move-ment is progressing so well hero while it is losing ground in Groat Britain. The possibility that. sho takes-noto of what in going on in the United States and is alorfc on tho point that tho women of America aro having greater success than tho women of Great Britain Brit-ain in tliis matter, and wants to find out tho cause of that buccoss here and the recession of tho movement in Eng-laud, Eng-laud, may at least bo imaginod. Tho talk that Mrs. Pankhurst might be excluded as an. undcsirablo is the wildest folly. Nothing could tend more distinctly to glorify Mrs. Pankhurst and mako her a martyr than such a narrow-minded act; as an attompt to exclude her. Tho notion that tho immigration immi-gration officials on thoir own motion may hold a visitor to be undesirable and limy excludo that visitor on account ac-count of tho prejudices and notions of theso officials, was pretty well exploded ex-ploded in tho test made on Castro. The claim that Castro was guilty of acts involving moral turpitude was thoroughly thrashod out in the courts, whero it was hold that anything of that eort had to ho officially shown, and not merely assumed from common report. re-port. Besides, tho acts of moral turpitude tur-pitude wero not committed in or, against tho Unitod Statos, and so the court held the punishment of such acts, in caso thoy had been really committed commit-ted by Castro, lay in tho jurisdiction in which the offenses woro committed. In like manner, though it is argued that Mrs. Pankhurst has been guilty of arson and various crimes in Great Britain involving moral turpitude, it is only necessary to say that thoso acts wero committed within tho jiirisdiction of Great Britain, and if Great Britain chooses to let Mrs. Pankhurst go froo of these offenses, that ig nono of our affair. Besides, as she does not como as an immigrant, Tut only aa a visitor, there is no occasion tor alarm. It Trill, of course, bo time enough for the immigration officials in New York to pasB upon tho Pankhurst caso when sho presents herself to too admitted to this country. It may bo, indeed, that she "will not cpmo at all. But if sho should como, there can bo no question tout that it would bo tho wildest folly to refuse her. admission. |