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Show j ENGLISH MILITANTS TO FORM ALLIANCE London, No 15. Miss Chrlstabel Pankhurst. who directs, from her exile In Purls, the campaign of the militant suffragettes In England. Is after all only a recent recruit to militancy, mili-tancy, a time Is measured in poll-I poll-I tics In England. Somebody has been turning up speeches made by Miss 1 Pankhurst no longer ago than 1905, J and It is found she ranged herself then against the advocates of militancy. mili-tancy. It was at a conference of the Independent labor party, at which I Miss I'unkhurst was a delegate, and a resolution had been brought forward "extending sympathy to the clUsens of East Ham In their refusal to administer ad-minister the education act on account of the unfair incidence of the rate." There were speeches for and against t the resolution and then Miss Pank- hurst, "while In sympathy wltJi the resolution, was of opin!on that. It i would he safer to use constitutional means." I I The latest step In the new can palgn which the non-militant suffragists suffra-gists ttlll wage this winter In the British Isles. Is the formation of an alliance with the Church of England The new alliance starts work with the blessing of six bl3hops and ef forts will he made to get a formal pronouncement from the church of Its attitude towards the question of e-qual suffrage. |