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Show MILITANT FRENZY. The two Belfast, Ireland, editors who were thumped for saying things in their papers about the militant suffragettes suf-fragettes stoutly aver that they were assaulted by a ''gianteSs.'' How terrifying ter-rifying it must be to have a giantess swoop down with eyes ablaze and fists clenched. A ninety-pound woman, when she's mad, looks as though she might weigh a ton if called into action. A giantess, of course, would look proportionately pro-portionately larger and infinitely more fierce. While tlie Irish giantess used her fists on the editorial crauiums a British militant went after an art gallery attendant with a hatchet for interfering interfer-ing with her innocent pastime of destroying de-stroying valuable paintings. The attendant at-tendant was severely injured for his presumption. The ' ' lady ' ' was captured cap-tured after a struggle with other attendants at-tendants who arrived in time to pre-vont pre-vont murder, and was taken, kicking and screaming to the police station. In order to show that she had enlisted en-listed for the war, the hatchet woman (the Chinese tongs have hatchet men) left a note in tlie art gallery which may be interpreted as indicating the militant suffragette state of mind. "To stop this you 'must give us justice," she says, and then goes on to say that jhe and the sisterhood to which, she belongs be-longs are willing to die for the cause, having tried all otlier ways and failed ' to get the ballot. Kecont occurrences, especially her use of the hatchet upon the person of the poor devil on duty in the art gallery, gal-lery, do not bear out her next, assertion, that ' we have been too ladylike in the past. Xow we are going to fight." If they haven't, been really fighting fulsome ful-some months heaven help John Bull when they got fairly started, fhe disdains death and predicts that others will rise to take the places of the Amazons who fall in the attempt to gain equal suffrage by force. On the same day that the Belfast editors and the art attendant "got theirs," the arson squads were busv in both England and . Ireland, and Dr. Francis Edward Forward, medical officer of Holloway jail, was horsewhipped horse-whipped by a couple of irate suffragettes suffra-gettes who charged him with responsibility responsi-bility for forcible feeding of5 militant who go on ' ' Iiu nger strikes " i m-mediately m-mediately upon being locked up. The doctor meekly accepted the. beating and refused to enter a complaint against his tormentors, but thy were galhered , mi bv, the hard hearted minions of the la w and i-ha rgrd with disorderly conduct. con-duct. A reign of terror has been inaugurated inaugu-rated in "Merrip king la nd. ' ' The king no longer rides abroad to take tbe air and members of the cabinet are forced to skulk along back streets on their way to transact the business of the empire. The situation would be decidedly de-cidedly humorous did it not have a tragical side. What will the harvest be' Will the women be turned over to the wild Loudon mob and torn to pieces, as predicted by Sir (.'onan Doyle, or will they gain their point without sacrificing the, lives of many of their j nu mber ? J Uncle Sam has many perplexities at i the present moment. Congress persists in remaining in session, business is not what it should be and it is by no means certain that this country will not have to send an army into "Mexico to set that republic, upon its feet again. These are mere trifles when compared with the turmoil into' which the United K i n g d o m has been plunge d by the militant suffragettes. The only way out seems to be an acknowledgment by John Bull that he is beaten and the (granting of the ballot to the women, and John won't do that until he has to. Witness Irish home rule. as soon as possible. They realize that any delay on his partrill complicate the situation and injure their campaign. cam-paign. Election as governor of Xew York would not impair the prestige of Colonel Colo-nel Roosevelt nor weaken his chances of being a presidential nominee, in 1916, but defeat would be a serious handicap. If the colonel were an altruist he probably prob-ably would accept the gubernatorial nomination without a moment's hesitancy. hesi-tancy. Eager to apply the principles of his party in his own state and put the hated bosses to flight he would disregard the danger of losing the presidential nomination in 1916. But, while the colonel wishes his country the best good fortune, he is not of a. self-sacrificing nature, and, therefore, will ponder long and well as to the advisability of getting into the New j York fight asv a gubernatorial caudi-' caudi-' date; for no due can doubt that the cononel considers himself the best possible pos-sible presidential timber in the United States. Even from an altruistic point of view, the colonel might refuse to accept the Mew York nomination, fearing that he would be defeated and thereby impair his national prestige. As a true patriot he probably will consider it ieccsa tv to preserve all his prestige so that I he people may be able to inaugurate in-augurate the' best possible president on iUar.-h 4, 1017. In that case the colonel colo-nel will subordinate the welfare of his own state to the greater good of his country. It will be seen that the colonel is back on tho River of Doubt, but we trnrft that this . time he vrjll come through safely without even stubbing, his toe, as he -did in Brazil. |