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Show : A TOUGH FORMATION. w The auflfraaTial in Oreai Britain are .erlainlv S a pratty hard formation four lrrce m the I poatoffiee at Dnndae, BeoUand. have been aeri- aauly injured by the burtin( into Hame of DftekaVget oontaining tubaa of rherui.-al. that have '.een addreaaed and mailed by militant KiifTra-j KiifTra-j fettea to Premier Aaquith ! When the MacNaniaraa read that in their phaon boarding place in 8an Quentin they will aay to tbamaelTM: "Why did we not aend for aa Engtkth anlfrage woman and wnH our dyna-it dyna-it bj mailt" The women who would do thingg of thai kind ought to appeal to the judgment of Kngliah etateamen aa to the feaaibility of reriring the old law whieh aent certain ladiea and irentlemen out of the kingdom to Botany Bay and r-anaed that eong to be eompoaed. the refrain of which waa: "Be it onderatood we leare our country for our country' good.'" Thoac chapa that the Rngliab tranaported a hundred yeara or more ago to tha South teaa, gireai plenty of land and the alternative of making a living off that land or etarriag, caused the reformation of a great many, and aome of the moat reapectable citiaen of A astral aaia at the present time, while willing: ta hare their naiaea and picturea published, are not at all gnxious to have their padigre puh-iiahed, puh-iiahed, because it datea back to tboae aame Botany Bot-any Bay immigrant. Possibly that might so change these women suffragists of England that they would become tit to be mothers after awhile and raise up a raee of strong men who would be reasonably honest. We can understand that a woman who ases her children hungry and cannot feed them would grow desperate and want to smssh things. But when we see a lot of women, just for the sake of getting a ballot, ready to permit incen-1 incen-1 diarisa and murder, then no thought ia left ex-ept ex-ept that such women ought to be sent to some onntry where they would have to make an hon- est living by hard work or starve I I About the meanest thing in the world ia a I mean man, bnt a mean man in his worst stage is an angel compared with a woman who tries her best to be mean. Aa her nature ia naturally 1 sweeter than that of a man. ao when all the 1 sweetness tarns to gall in her soul, she can out Herod any man in the world in utter meanneaa and cruelty It is hard to imprison such creatures; it ia impossible to hang them; but a aea voyage would not do them any harm ; and in a country where ' women are scarce the thought might eventually dawn on them that they really could do better ' by being decent than by acting out the instincts I which must have been bred from generations of poverty and want on the part of their parents. |