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Show faWWaWaTMBWWMaTayWsMajMaMt Making Tomorrows Vorld By WALTER WILLIAMS, LL.D. (Dm tfOm School tfnr!ltm tHiUatnnMn tJMUmmrfi THE WOMAN IN YHE CASE t London, England. Eng-land. Tho parliamentary par-liamentary fran-chlno fran-chlno for womon translated lnta American parak loliam tho rlgh of women to votn for membora of congress is a subject in Great Britain of argument, argu-ment, nowBpaper article, .public mooting, fiorco contention, and, in tho caso of JAHBil militant socio- aw tics, acts law-J law-J lossnoss JHpjiApBjl amateur rcvolu-WaSttniiisIIEiaii rcvolu-WaSttniiisIIEiaii tion. An assom-blago assom-blago of women, estimated In number from 200,-000 200,-000 to 850,000, from all parts of tho United Kingdom gathered gath-ered In Ilydo Park, London, a day or two ago, in a demonstration for the franchise. Mooting after meeting Is hold attacking tho Liberal government for declining to permit tho consideration considera-tion of a suffrage moasuro in parliament. parlia-ment. Tho question has becomo politically po-litically acuto. Prom tho shades of acadomlo discussion it has beon forced cut into tho opon of practical politics. As It is in tho domain of practical politics, pol-itics, ono hoars tho epithets that too ofton dlsgraco political dlscuBBkm. "She 1b a hyena in petticoats," sad an anti-suffrago speaker, describing a distinguished dis-tinguished Englishwoman who favored suffrage borrowing, consciously or unconsciously, tho phraso with which Horaco Walpolo pictured tho brilliant Mary Wollstonocraft, mother of tho woman's suffrage movement in England. Eng-land. "Thcso dreadful, misguided womon," said a British woman of high social rank, "who would destroy all tion in Oroat Britain. "If a fow worn-jn worn-jn hired a hall In a cornor of London, nado speeches and pasBed resolutions, lobody wished to road about It in tho nowspapors next morning oxcopt thorn-.oIvob. thorn-.oIvob. Why should wo print it? Of courso, when another group of women sought to burn St. Paul's that became mjtfs to overybody and wo published Jt." Anothor explanation is that tho great London dailies, with two or throe 'notablo exceptions, aro ConBervatlvo in politics. Tho majority of tho Con-Borvntlvo Con-Borvntlvo party aro opposed to tho ox-, tonnlon of tho parliamentary franchiso to women. Tho British nowspapors aro organs of comment and opinion on tholr nows pages as well as in their editorial columns, and publish only or chiefly thoso things which help or which thoy think will holp thlcr particular par-ticular party. By Ignoring woman's suffrngo thoy thought thoy promoted tho IntoroBts of tho Conscrvativo policy. pol-icy. Tho Llboral Journals, in tho interest in-terest of tho Liberal government, which, divided in sentiment on tho, subject, ignores or, at least, postpones its consideration, did tho samo. Tho Hydo Park demonstration, In which at least 200,000 women took part, with Important addresses from somo of England's most distinguished womon, received a scant half column In tho London newspapers tho next morning, or, rathor, taking placo Saturday and thoro being no Sunday nowspapers, it received tho scant half-column tho second sec-ond morning following. Tho British political Journal and nearly all tho Journals in Great Britain may bo thus described following their usual plan of giving largo spaco only to what thoy indorse Ignorod tho woman's suffrage movomont. Progreos of Movement Unrecorded. "No body of political controversialists controversial-ists aro so badly sorved by their own press as tho antl-suffragiBts," said Mrs. Mllllcent Garrett Fawcett, proeldont of tho National Union of Women's Suffrage Suf-frage Societies. "Tho antl-suffrago proBB appears to act on tho assumption assump-tion that If thoy say nothing about a political event it Is tho samo as If It had not happened. Therefore, whllo they glvo promlnenco to any clrcum- pffl'i'ii" i ii --- a ia. a rfa iV"V-5? &i'LLLvflffflffflffflvflffflffflffflffjP i iMivflffBfffltAHvflr'iataVflM s'v' JuVBvBvBvBvBvBvBvBvBvBh.' ftWfe'v tBSwl9RBlBilft BBB IrJV BC viaBCBBnrSiH irJffsM -uLiu- MbBm-Ti JiBaiTBtiTiBiWBMBB' WTjBgBr "3i? " v9JK BflvBwnBK . gMBBMKawHBMWBBBBBBB jjr HbI9b. f5 1 ? MKfvftf'jBF bBBBBvBvBW "" "!w E . . v?ryiCViWAw)offcJBBBBJBCBJBBBR t ,WT jflwBBBBBBBBBff &$ tt i VtHyfilt J3Hi l. V MBPaTfMBfA A Militant In Albert Hall. tho good In the world." "Tyrant," and "monstor" aro favorlto opithots flung at tho prlmo minister, Mr. Asqulth, whoso opposition to woman's suffrago has thus far prevented parliamentary adoption, almost consideration, of a woman's suffrago bill. Whon all words fail, tho militant suffragists throw stones and Bet on flro buildings and tho British pollcomon ubo clubs. Woman's Suffrage Ignored by Press. An odd feature of it all Is that whllo tho woman's suffrage movemeut has beon ndvancing in Great Britain In tho last ton years, not by painful inchos but by rapid furlongs, tho British Brit-ish press, In tho main, bus largely ignorod ig-norod it. Only when it got Into tho pollco courts, by tho dollborato and purposeful lawlessness of tho militant section of tho suffragists, did tho Lon-Jon Lon-Jon dailies deign to notico tho movomont movo-mont to any considerable extont. Thoro nppoared to bo a conspiration 3f sllonco on tho part of tho newspapers, newspa-pers, Explanations aro varlc 3 Ar his sllonco. "It wasn't nows," snld Jho editor of tho most widely circulate d nowspaper with a singlo oxcen- Btancos which thoy imagine likely to bo injurious to suffrage, thoy either sny nothing about theso facts which lndlcato its growing forco and volumo or olso record them in such a manner that thoy oscapo tho observation of tho goneral reador. Tho result is that only tho suffragists, who aro In constant con-stant communication with their comrades com-rades in various parts of tho world and also havo thoir own papors, aro kopt duly Informed not only of what has happenod but what Is likely to happon. For tho ignoranco of tho antl-auffrng-lsts tho antl-Buffrago press of Londou is mainly responsible. Things aro what thoy aro and tho consequencos will bo what they will bo, whether tho nows-papors nows-papors print thorn or not, and to leavo tho controvorsIallBts on your own sldo in ignoranco of facts of capital importance impor-tance is a strango way of showing po-litical po-litical allegiance." H. A. White, tho editor of tho London Dally Standard, introduced a now dopartuta in London Journalism In this respect. Ho devoted a pago dally to a full statement of ovonts and arguments bearing on all sides of tho suffrago and othor women's wom-en's questions. Militancy. j Tho campaign of tho militant worn-! en suffragists, howqvor, rocolves large i notico in tho nowspapors. Tho Lon-i don Times, in. this morning's Issue publishes a list of tho principal fire losses bellovod to havo been caused by ' . .. . urni A UlUt women intrnujists. It occn-1 Pies i( eolumn and Id conspicuously displayed. The total is about iTGO.OOO, The Times is fair enough to say, how over, (that the evidence is not strong in alljaho cases reported. Butwb.y militant suffragists, who seemmo bo peculiar to Groat Britain? To attract attention, says onojto force the Mvornment to consider our do-mandjR, do-mandjR, Bays anothor; to gain money and njotorlety for a fow leaders, says a thid. "It Booms to be a law of political' po-litical' evolution," quoted a militant suffragist suf-fragist in her own behalf, "that no grcatiadvanco in human freedom can bo galnod except after tho display ol somo-' kind of violence. Wo are only adopting tho mothods of men to accomplish ac-complish our ends." Helped by Brutal Treatment . Militancy has been mot, in mauy Instances, In-stances, by brutality. Tho Cat-and-Mouso Act, which roleases for a time from prison offenders who are 111 01 go on a hunger strike and then per mits tholr rearrest, has been substituted substi-tuted for tho barbarity with which forcible feeding was carried on. The unnecessary sovorlty with which Bome pollcomon doalt with somo zealous 01 fanatical womon caused public opinion, opin-ion, which had been almost unanimous In condemning militancy tho revolutionary revolu-tionary rather than tho constitutional method of propaganda to change foi a tlnio, if not to actual approval, to a klqdof tacit indorsement or indifference indiffer-ence This brutal sovorlty, shown in a number of cases, by tho pollco au thorltlcB has also tended to unlto the discordant elements that favor worn an'o suffrago into ono somowhat harmonious har-monious whole. On tho platform of a largo hall In tho West end of London the other evening wero in vocal bar mony speakers ropreBontlng all phasct of tho movement, from tho militant who throw rocks, to tho lady who onlj wroto letters to tho nowspapors and for reasons of domestic tranqulllltj wrote them anonymously. Sovorltj had tho usual effect or creating sym pathy for tho person punished and lost opposition to tho cauBo. Recently th sovorlty has been lessened and th( punishment has beon mado moro noar ly to fit the offense. Narrating what was done only a few months ago, an ar dent suffragist said that minor breach ob of law, such as waving flags and making speeches in tho lobbies of th houses of parliament, wore treated moro severely than serious crime ot tho partof men had often been. A sen tonco of three months' Imprisonment' as an ordinary offender was passed U ono caso against a young girl who had aono noining oxcopt to uecuno to d bound over to keep the peace, which she was prepared to swear she had not brokon. Tho turning of tho host upon a suffrago prisoner In her ce'Lcfr a midwinter night is another erataplo Itg ibeon, fortunately fotfall c6n TOirned, changed for the beAr by th 'micro recent aiimlnistrajitfn of thi much-reviled Cot-and-MjRiso Act, J Militants Small UBNumber. JTho militant suffrlBts, first organ Izcjd iqtp a soclet VUen years ago, an nojw divided inf two or more inharmo nli )us grouprVThelr work Is largelj as iociatedn the public mind with tht nabey-ot tho Pankhursts, mother and dajbghler. Tho militant suffragist! constitute but a handful of tho advo caltea of tho franchise for womon Tlley got 90 por cent, of tho public at telitlon but thoy aro In numbor and InBportanco scarcely ono per cent. Tht NMttlonal union, which advocates con swltutional methods, Includes or rep resents tho greater part of tho suf fragfclsts. Thero aro, scores of othei won ion's organizations formed wltt tho samo gonoral purposo. Tho Na tion il British Woman'B Tomporanci unlc n, tho National Union of Woraor Wor l:ors (tho largest woraen'B union) tho Association of University Womon Teac hers, tho Society of RegiBtored Nun ob, tho Women's Co-operatlv gull 1 (tho only organized body repro sent Ing tho married working women) aro some of tho numerous societies that favor woman's suffrage. The towi councils of Liverpool, Manches ter, Sheffield, Birmingham, Leeds BracQford, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin and (Work aro among tho 200 towt counrBlls which havo petitioned parlta merJjt to pass a woman's suffrago bill Ireland for Woman's Suffrage. IrBeland, with characteristic tompera met, next to homo rulo, has giver largBcst time to discussion of womah'i surrBrage. The Irish Nationalists gen , cralBy favor it and tho Ulster Orange ' mcnBnavo included in tholr so-oallod provMalonal government scheme thi franomhlso for women on tho basis ol , regisMter for local government pur i poso. On tho contrary, it was an Irish prcaoSher who, having described Jezo- bel ofljs a typo of tho modern woman BUffrArglst, said that she painted her face,BtIed her head and looked out of tho vjBjlndow at Jehu, "and, rrcrald you belloBjo it, tho hussy .was nigh on sixty six-ty ycRrs old." The Fight In Parliament ThS opposition of Mr. Asqulth, the I.lbcrHfil prlmo minister, dcsplto a ten-tatlvcBJ ten-tatlvcBJ promlso given boforo ho wont into cBJfflco, has prevented practical con. MdonBtlou of any woman's suffrage bill liH tho houso of comons which In-cluilo.Bj In-cluilo.Bj probably a majority supporting tho mBJeasuro. Among thoso who favor womaflh's suffrago aro Sir Edward Oroy.BJ David Lloyd Georgo, Ramsay McDoBfcald, tho Labor leader, Lord Hal dauo, Bj Arthur Balfour, Philip Snowdon and vBJ'llllain Redmond. Tho opposition numbiHrs such distinguished statesmou ns MiflJ Asqultli, Austen Chamberlain, WlnstHm Churchill and F. E. Smith. Tho rtBJjault of tho next general election In lOljBEt will, impart, turn upon the at .'BtitBn, becauso woman'B suffrago s' clotlH-s aro jentorlng tho campaign PledsliBta, as ar as possible overy candidate can-didate Blfor parliament to favor an ado-quato ado-quato Buffrago bill. (CoiyflhBTt, UU. by Joseph B. Bowles.) |