Show making tomorrows tom orrow s world by WILLIAMS heon elas m 1 I iii 11 i i 11 i air i i i i i i i i i 1 i THE WOMAN IN THE CASE london england tho the par Z lia montary franchise franchina for women I 1 4 translated into inta american parale para lellam tho the elgh of women to vote 5 for members of cengr congress ess la Is a subject in great britain of argument newspaper article p public u b 11 c meeting florce contention and 11 in tho the case of 4 militant a 0 c I 1 e ties acts of law loss ness and amateur rovold tion alon an assemblage of women estimated in number irom from W to from all parts darts of tho the tilted kingdom gathered red in hydo paris london a a day or two ago in a demonstration for tho the franchise meeting after meeting la is hold held attacking tho the liberal government tor for declining to permit the consideration of a suffrage measure in parliament the question has become politically liti cally acute from the shades of academic discussion it lins has been forced cut into the open of practical politics As an it Is in the domain of practical politics one hears the epithets that too often disgrace political discussion she Is a hyena in petticoats said an anti suffrage speaker describing a distinguished englishwoman who favored suffrage borrowing consciously or unconsciously the phrase with which horace walpole pictured tile the brilliant mary diary mother of the womans comans wo mans suffrage movement in england these dreadful misguided women cald a british woman of high social rank who would destroy all the good in the world 1 tyrant and monster are favorite epithets flung kt it the prime minister mr air asquith whose opposition to womans comans suffrage I 1 nas has thus far prevented parliamentary adoption almost consideration ot of a womans comans suffrage bill when all words fall the militant suffragists throw stones stines and set on fire buildings and tbt british policemen use clubs womans comans suffrage ignored by press ka an odd feature of it all Is all that at while the womans comans suffrage movement lias has been advancing in great britain la in the last ten years not by painful innoes but by rapid furlongs urt the brit asti isn press in the main has largely ignored it only when it got into tho the police courts by the deliberate and purposeful lawlessness of the militant section of tho the suffragists did the lonion london dallies dailies deign to notice the movement to any considerable extent there appeared to be a at f silence on the part of the newspapers explanations are 3 for his ala silence it news said the editor of the most widely circulated d newspaper with a single excel i ion dori in great britain it if a few woma in hired it a hall in a corner of london nade speeches and passed resolutions lobody wished to read about it in the newspapers next morning except them elves why should we print it itt of course when another group of women sought douht to burn st L pauls that became anns to everybody and vo vio published jt 11 11 another explanation la in that tho the great london dailies with two or three notable exceptions aro are conservative in politics the majority of the conservative serva tive party are opposed to tho the ex tension of the parliamentary franchise to women the british newspapers are organs of comment and opinion on their news pages as well livell as in their editorial columns and publish only or chiefly those things which help or which they think will help thier particular party dy by ignoring womans comans suffrage they thought they promoted tho interests of tho the conservative policy tho liberal jo journals urnald in tho the I 1 interest of the liberal government which divided in sentiment centime nt on tha subject ignores or at least postpones its consideration did tho the same tile the hyde park demonstration in which at least women took part with important addresses from somo some of En glands most distinguished women received a scant halt column col in the london newspapers papers tho the next morning or rather taking place saturday and there being no sunday newspapers it received the scant half column the second ond morning following the british political journal and nearly all the journals Jour nala in great britain may be thus described following their usual plan of giving large space only to what they indorse ignored the womans comans suffrage movement progress of movement unrecorded no body of political controversialists ests aro are 10 30 badly served by their own press as tho antt antl suffragists said mrs airs garrett fawcett president ot tho the national union of suffrage societies tha anti antl suffrage press appears to act on the assumption that if they say nothing about a political avent it la is the flame as it it had bad not happened therefore while they give prominence to any circum i P N e X A lilt Z 0 4 1 L U A militant in albert hall instances which they imagine likely to be injurious to suffrage they either say nothing about these facts which indicate its growing force and volume oreldo or else record them in such a manner that they escape the obier observation ot of the general reader the result is that only the suffragists who are in constant communication with their theli com rades radea in various parts of the world and also have their own papers are kept duly informed not only of 0 what h has happened but what is likely to happen for the ignorance of the anti suffrage ests the anti suffrage p press ress of london is mainly responsible theng are what they are and tho the consequences inces will he bo what they will bu bo whether the newspapers print thedor then or not and to leave tho the controversialists on your own side in ignorance of facts of capital importance Is a strange way of showing political allegiance 11 A white tho the editor of the london dally standard introduced a new departee depar tue in london journalism in this respect he devoted a pago dally to a full statement of events and arguments bearing on all 6 sides ides of the suffrage and other en i questions militancy the campaign of tho the militant women suffragists however receives large notice in the newspapers the london times in this mornings issue publishes a list of the principal alra fir A losses bell believed believed eved to ave been caused by militant women it occupies ciesa a column and la Is conspicuously display displayed bod tho the total to la about tho the times la fair enough to say bay how bow over that tho the evidence is not strong in nil all tho cases reported but why militant suffragists who seem t to 0 be peculiar to doniat britain to attract attention says bays one to force tile tho government to bon consider flider our demands says anya an another othor to gain money and notoriety for a few lenders leaders says saya a third it toomb to be a law of political evolution quoted a militant suf sut tr agist in her own behalf that no great adv advance ancoIn in human freedom can bo be gained except at after tar tile display ol of some kind hind of violence wo we are only adopting the methods of men to accomplish com our ends helped by brutal treatment mill militancy has been mot met tn in lauy instances by brutality tho the cat and mouse act which releases rolo aBos for a time flroa from prison offenders who aro are III 01 01 go on a hunger strike and then pep pen mits their roar rost has been buted for the barbarity with which forcible feeding was carried on the unnecessary severity with which some policemen dealt with some borne zealous at 01 fanatical women woman caused public opinion which had been almost in condemning militancy the revola flonary rather than the constitutional M metho otho dof propaganda to change fol to a time it if not to actual approval to a kind of 0 tacit endorsement indorsement Indor or ind iffet once this brutal severity shown tn in a number sumlor of basoa by bi tho the police ni au thorit les has had also tended to unite th discordant elements that favor faaoi worn ivorn ans suffrage into one Bome somewhat what bar conlous whole on the platform of a largo hall in the west end of london the other evening were in vocal hop han mony many speakers representing all phase of tho the movement from the militant who throw threw rocks to tho lady who onla wrote letters to tho newspapers papers and tor for reasons of domestic tranquillity tl wrote them anonymously severity sevorid rit had the usual effect or creating sym pathy for ahe person punished and loci leet opposition to the cause recently the th severity has haa been lessened and th punishment has been made more near ly to fit the offense off enso narrating what whal was done only a few months ago an at ap dent suffragist said that minor breach es cs of law such as waving flags and making speeches in tho the lobbies of th houses of parliament were treated more severely than serious crime ot 01 the part of men had often been A son tonco tonce of three months imprison imprisonment meni as an ordinary offender was passed assod in ID one caso case against a youny girl who bai bad done nothing except to decline to b be bound over aver to keep the peace which she was prepared to swear she had not broken the turning of 0 the host hos upon a suffrage pris prisoner in her cell or OB a midwinter tr night Is at another iother example this has been fo fortunately for all con corned changed forthe tor the bitter better by the th more recent administration of the th much reviled cat and mouse alouse act militants small tn in number tho the militant suffragists first organ izod into a society ten years ago ar now dIvide dinto into two or more In harma groups their work is ils largely associated in tho the publia mind with th thi names of abo mother nn an daughter the militant constitute but a handful of the advocates of tho the francl franchise iise for women they get 90 por cent of tho public at but they are in number and importance scarcely one per cent the national union which advocates con nal me methods methias thoas includes or rep resents tho the greater part of tho the suf trag frag lats there are scores ot 0 othel organizations formed sitf the same same generah purpose the na british womans comans temperance ct union tho the national union of bome r workers the largest w OM oab union the association of university women teachers the society of registered nurses the operative cooperative co guild the only organized body depre benting the married working women are somo some of 0 the numerous societies that favor womans comans guffra suffrage ei tbt town councils of Lifer liverpool pool manches ter sheffield birmingham leeds bradford edinburgh Glae glasgow gow dublin and cork are among the councils which have petitioned parila mont ment to pass a womans comans suffrage bill ireland for fop womans comans suffrage ireland with characteristic tempera ment next to home rule has giver largest time to discussion of woman suffrage the irish nationalists gert ger orally favor it and theorster the ulster Olster arango men have included in their so called provisional government scheme tho th franchise for women on oa the basis oi 0 register for local government pur poses on the contrary it was an irish preacher who having described jezo jeze bel as a type of the modern woman suffragist said that she pi painted tinted her face tied her head and looked out of 0 the window at jehu and vald you belle believe veit it the hussy was nigh on sixty y ye years ars old the fight in parliament the opposition opp OB of aar asquith the liberal prime minister despite a ten dative promise given before he fi went into office has pro prevented practical consideration on of any comans womans suffrage frage atif bill in the house of ot comons which includes probably a majority supporting the measure among who faor womans comans suffrage faro aro sir edward groy grey david lloyd george ramsay I cDonald the labor leader lord hal dane arthur balfour Bal tour philip and Wil william liani redmond the opposition numbers such distinguished statesmen ad aa mr air asquith austen chamberlain winston dhur churchill chill and F B H smith the res result alt of the next geno general election in 1914 will in p part art turn upon the qi of because won comans womans iani suffrage i ge are entering the campaign pledging as far as aa possible every candidate for parliament to favor an ede ado quate suffrage bill copyright br joeeph U bows i |