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Show i I I .1 ! Making Tomorrow's World By WJILTETI WILLIAMS, LL.D. iPtoit of the School of JaatmAm of 0' Unfpcitito of MlttomrO THE WOMAN IN THE CASE V V' London, England. Eng-land. The parliamentary par-liamentary franchise fran-chise for women translated Intc 1 American paral, lelism the righ of women to vote for members of congress is a subject in Great Britain of argument, argu-ment, newspaper article, public meeting, flerce contention, and, in the case of militant socle-ties, socle-ties, acts of law-lessness law-lessness and amateur revolution. revolu-tion. An assemblage assem-blage of women, n(.s to everybody and we published iV Another explanation is that the great London dailfes, with two or three 'notable exceptions, are Conservative in politics. The majority of the Conservative Con-servative party are opposed to the extension ex-tension of the parliamentary franchise to women. The British newspapers are organs of comment and opinion on their news pages as well as In their editorial columns, and publish only or chiefly those things which help or which they think will help thier particular par-ticular party. By ignoring woman's suffrage they thought they promoted the interests of the Conservative policy. pol-icy. The Liberal journals, in the interest in-terest of the Liberal government, which, divided in sentiment on the. subject, ignores or, at least, postpones its consideration, did the same. The Hyde Park demonstration, in which at least 200,000 women took part, with important addresses from some of England's most distinguished women, received a scant half column in the London newspapers the next morning, or, rather, taking place Saturday and there being no Sunday newspapers, it received the scant half-column the sec- ond morning following. The British political journal and nearly all the Journals in Great Britain may be thus described following their usual plan of giving large space only to what they indorse ignored the woman's suffrage movement. Progress of Movement Unrecorded. "No body of political controversialists controversial-ists are so badly served by their own press as the anti-suffragists," said Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Suf-frage Societies. "The anti-suffrage press appears to act on the assumption assump-tion that if they say nothing about a political event it is the same as if it had not happened. Therefore, while they give prominence to any circum- j estimated in number from 200,-000 200,-000 to 250,000, from all parts of the United Kingdom gathered gath-ered In Hyde Park, London, a day or two ago, in a demonstration for the franchise. Meeting after meeting is held attacking the Liberal government for declining to permit the consideration considera-tion of a suffrage measure in parliament. parlia-ment. The question has become politically po-litically acute. From the shades of academic discussion it has been forced cut into the open of practical politics. As it is in the domain of practical politics, pol-itics, one hears the epithets that too often disgrace political discussion; "She is a.hyena in petticoats," said an anti-suffrage speaker, describing a distinguished dis-tinguished Englishwoman who favored suffrage borrowing, consciously or unconsciously, the phrase with which Horace Walpole pictured the brilliant Mary Wollstonecraft, mother of the woman's suffrage movement in 'England. 'Eng-land. "These dreadful, misguided women," said a British woman of high social rank, "who would destroy all militant women suffragists, u occupies occu-pies a column and is conspicuously displayed. The total is about $750,000. The Times is fair enough to .say, however, how-ever, that the evidence is not strong in all the cases reported. But why militant suffragists, who seem to be peculiar to Grat Britain? To attract attention, says one; to force the government to consider our demands, de-mands, says another; to gain money and notoriety for a few leaders, says a third. "It seems to be a law of political po-litical evolution," quoted a militant suffragist suf-fragist in her own behalf, "that no great advance in human freedom can be gained except after the dieplay ol some kind of violence. We are only adopting the methods of men to accomplish ac-complish our ends." Helped by Brutal Treatment. Militancy has been met, in many instances, in-stances, by brutality. The Cat-and-Mouse Act, which releases for a time from prison offenders who are ill ot go on a hunger strike and then per mits their rearrest, has been substituted substi-tuted for the barbarity with which forcible feeding was carried on. The unnecessary severity with which some policemen dealt with some zealous or fanatical women caused public opinion, opin-ion, which had been almost unanimous in condemning militancy the revolutionary revolu-tionary rather than the constitutional method of propaganda to change foi a time, if not to actual approval, to a kind of tacit indorsement or indifference. indiffer-ence. This brutal severity, shown in a number of cases, by the police authorities au-thorities has also tended to unite th discordant elements that favor woman's wom-an's suffrage into one somewhat bar monlous whole. On the platform of a large hall in the West end of Londor the other evening were in vocal har mony speakers representing all phases of the movement, from the militant who threw rocks, to the lady who onlj wrote letters to the newspapers and for reasons of domestic tranqulllitj wrote them anonymously. Severitj had the usual effect or creating sym pathy for the person punished and lest opposition to the cause. Recently thi severity has been lessened and thi punishment has been made more near ly to fit the offense. Narrating whal was done only a few months ago, an ardent ar-dent suffragist said that minor breaches breach-es of law, such as waving flags and making speeches in the lobbies of th houses of parliament, were treated more severely than serious crime o( the part pf men had often been. A sen tence of three months' lmprlBonmenl as an ordinary offender was passed 1 one case against a young girl who had done nothing except to decline to b bound over to keep the peace, whlcl she was prepared to swear she had not broken. The turning of the host upon a suffrage prisoner in her cell ot a midwinter night is another example This has been, fortunately for all con cerned, changed for the better by th more recent administration of the much-reviled Cat-and-MouBe Act, Militants Small in Number. The militant suffragists, first organ ized into a society ten years ago, are . now divided into two or more Inharmo nious groups. Their work is largelj associated in. the public mind with the names of the Pankhursts, toother and daughter. The militant suffragists constitute but a handful of the advocates advo-cates of the franchise for women They get 90 per cent, of the public attention at-tention but they are in number and importance scarcely one per cent. The National union, which advocates con stitutional methods, includes or . rep resents the greater part of the suffragists. suf-fragists. There are scores of othei women's organizations formed witt the same general purpose. The Na tional British Woman's Temperance union, the National Union of Women Workers (the largest women's union) the Association of University Women Teachers, the Society of Registered Nurses, the Women's Co-operative guild (the only organized body repre senting the married working women) are some of the numerous societies that favor woman's suffrage. The town councils of Liverpool, Manches ter, Sheffield, Birmingham, Leeds Bradford, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin and Cork are among the 200 towr councils which have petitioned pariia ment to pass a woman's suffrage bill Ireland for Woman's Suffrage. Ireland, with characteristic tempera ment, next to home rule, has giver largest time to discussion of woman's suffrage. The Irish Nationalists gen erally favor it and the Ulster Orange men have included in their so-called provisional government scheme th franchise for women on the basis ol register for local government pur poses. On the contrary, it was an Irish preacher who, having described Jezebel Jeze-bel as a type of the modern woman suffragist, said that she painted her face, tied her head and looksi out of the window at Jehu, "and, vyotild you believe it, the hussy was nigh on sixty six-ty years old." The Fight In Parliament. The opposition of Mr. Asquith, the Liberal prime minister, despite a tentative ten-tative promise given before he went into office, has prevented practical consideration con-sideration of aoy woman's suffrage bill in the house of comons which includes in-cludes probably a majority supporting the measure. Among those who favor woman's suffrage are Sir Edward Grey, David Lloyd George, Ramsay McDonald, the Labor leader, Lord Hal-dane, Hal-dane, Arthur Balfour, Philip Snowden and William Redmond. The opposition numbers such distinguished statesmen as Mr. Asquith, Austen Chamberlain, Winston Churchill and F. E. Smith. The result of the next general election in 1914 will, in part, turn upon the af istion, because woman's suffrage societies are entering the campaign pledging, as far as possible, every candidate can-didate for parliament to favor an adequate ade-quate suffrage bill. (Copyright liJ13, by Joseph B. Bowles.) : : ' . a ... - r -IM A - - A Militant in Albert Hall. the good in the world." "Tyrant," and "monster" are favorite epithets flung at the prime minister, Mr. Asquith, whose opposition to woman's suffrage has thus far prevented parliamentary adoption, almost consideration, of a woman's suffrage bill. When all words fail, the militant suffragists throw stones and set on fire buildings and tbe British policemen use clubs. Woman's Suffrage Ignored by Press. An odd feature of it all is that while the woman's suffrage movement has been advancing in Great Britain in the last ten years, not by painful inches but by rapid furiongs, the British Brit-ish press, in the main, has largely ignored ig-nored it. Only when it got into the police courts, by the deliberate and purposeful lawlessness of the militant section of the suffragists, did the London Lon-don dailies deign to notice the movement move-ment to any considerable extent. There appeared to be a conspiration Df silence on the part of the newspapers. newspa-pers. Explanations are varic "3 for Jjis silence. "It wasn't news," said the editor of the most widely circulated circulat-ed newspaper wich a single exception excep-tion in Great Britain. "If a few wom-jn wom-jn hired a hall in a corner of London, nade speeches and passed resolutions, aobody wished to read about it in the newspapers next morning except them- elves. Why should we print it? Of course, when another group of women ought to burn St. Paul's that became stances which they imagine likely to be injurious to suffrage, they either say nothing about these facts which indicate its growing force and volume or else record them in such a manner that they escape the observation of the general reader. The result is that only the suffragists, who are in constant con-stant communication with their comrades com-rades in various parts of the world and also have their own papers, are kept duly informed not only of what has happened but what is likely to happen. For the ignorance of the anti-suffragists the anti-suffrage press of London is mainly responsible. Things are what they are and the consequences will be what they will bo, whether the newspapers news-papers print them or not, and to leave the controversialists on your own side in ignorance of facts of capital importance impor-tance is a strange way of showing political po-litical allegiance." H. A. White, the editor of the London Daily Standard, introduced' a new departure in London journalism in this respect. He devoted a page daily to a full statement of events and arguments bearing on all sides of the suffrage and other women's wom-en's questions. Militancy. The campaign of the militant women wom-en suffragists, however, receives large notice in the newspapers. The London Lon-don Times, In this morning's issue publishes a list of the principal Pre losses believed to have been caused by |