TO SOUND CRY OF VOTE FOR WOMAN
Leader of  Militant  Suffragette Movement Here.
DINED AND TALKED QUIETLY
Mrs.Pankhurst,OriginalSuffragette, SaysAmericalsRiper forWounan Suffrage Now ThanEnfilandWas FourYearsAgoToContinueWar
Rochester, homp of the movement for suffrage for women in America, by reason of the Ions? residence of Miss Susan K. Anthony, greeted through a delegation from the Political Equality Club last night Mrs. Emmeline Pankliurst, leader of the militant suffragettes of England.
Anything more peaceful than the en-yironment in which the militant leader was led would be difficult to find. She was escorted to the Hotel Seneca, where a table was laid for twenty-four. Under the yellow-shaded candles the lights glowed softly, and a big cluster of chrysanthemums of yellowthe color of suffrageformed the centerpiece. Mrs Paiikhurst sat at the right hand of the president of the club, Mrs. Georgia F. Ilaynsford.
Mrs. Frank Croston, ari English woman who has mode her home in Rochester only a year, presented to the guest of honor a great cluster of orchids and white violets tied up with "Votes for Women" colors. Mrs. Pankhurst wore in the laces of her corsage one of the big "Votes for Women" pins. It is as Imr as a half dollar and hideously inartistic.
A Few Men Turn Out.
After the dinner there was a reception in the blue parlor, whore some two hundred sympathizers with the cause gathered. A few men, including Richard Kitchelt, late Socialist candidate for mayor; Rev. Edwin A. Rumball, Colonel James S. Graham and Joseph B. Bloss, were scattered about in the room.
Mrs. Pankhurst was averse to giving out much information about the suffrage cause in Great Britain, saying that she would go into detail in her lecture tonight at the Baker Theater.
"Have you seen to-night's dispatches about the horsewhipping of Winston Churchill by a suffragette?" one of the reporters asked.
"I would have to know the circumstances in detail before expressing an opinion," Mrs Pankhurst answered. "So many reports of violence by suffragettes are untrue that it is very probable this is also."
Many Reports Untrue, She Says.
"Are there many such reports that are untrue?"
"Oh, many! The account of the vitrol throwing in the election booth was quite untrue. No corrosive was thrown at all and no person was injured. The liquid thrown was a chemical intended to obliterate the figures on  the  ballots."
Asked how she became interested in the suffrage movement Mrs. Pankhurst explained;________
"I was born a suffragist and became a conscious one when I was 14 years old, when my mother took me to a suffrage meeting. We worked quietly until 1905, when the movement was deader than it had been twenty years before. I decided that it was time to take more active measures. We became what are called militant suffragettes. I prefer the term practical politician. There is more interest now than ever before, and we intend to keep right on until we get votes.
To Promote Interest.
"My coming to America is not to help American women get votes. That is their business. I came here to promote greater interest in the movement, for the greater the interest here, the greater the interest at home. One country is largely influenced by the sentiment of another. We have votes at all elections except the Parliament, and the women of two of our colonies, Australia and New   Zealand,   have  full   suffrage.
"America is now riper for suffrage than England wns four years ago. I am led to this conclusion through the attitude towards it of many women who are not active suffragists, women I meet at receptions and at club affairs to which I am invited."
Mrs. Pankhurst will speak to-night in the Baker Theater on "Why Women Want the Vote, and How to Get It."
During her stay in town, which will lie until to-morrow morning, Mrs. Pankhurst will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Bloss, at No. ,'534 Oxford street, who will hold an informal reception for her at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon, to which all who are interested in suffrage are invited.
AIM TO ATTRACT PUBLIC  NOTICE
Suffragettes   Desire to Create a Live Issue.
MRS. PANKHURST AT BAKER
Gives Interesting Description of Eaglith Woman Suffrage Movement, Its Purpose and Methods. Conditions Different in England
Mrs. Euimeline Pankhurst, leader of the English suffragettes, gave a highly interesting lecture before a small audience in the Baker Theater last night on "Why Women Want to Vote and How to Win It."
The lecture was instructive because of the sidelights which it cast upon English political methods and because it made fore intelligible a movement which, wihtin the past few years, has assumed practical political importance in the United Kingdom. The pleasing personality of the speaker and the enthusiasm she displays in her cause made the address decidedly interesting even to those who were not convinced of the soundness of her views.
I Richard Kitchelt opened the meeting and introduced as chairman Mrs. Georgia V. Raynsford, president of the Political Equity Club.    Mrs. Raynsford,
spoke of the sensational reports which h:ive been circulated with regard to the = doings of the suffragettes and said that the people of Rochester were fortunate in having an opportunity to hear the English movement explained by one of its foremost leaders.
All Shades of Opinion.
Mrs. Pankhurst described in the first place the organization which she represents, saying that it is composed solely of women, but includes women of all shades of political opinion. She explained the difference between English and American conditions as regards* ex"-tent of suffrage. In England, even at the present time, no one has the right to vote simply because ho is a man; the franchise is limited to property holders, to those who pay rent for houses, business places or lodgings and to the graduates of the two great English universities. This difference in the voting population causes the suffrage movement to assume a different phase in England than here.
Coming down to the argument in favor woman suffrage, Mrs. Pankhurst said:
"The same argument which was so widely used in favor of the extension of the franchise when very few men had the right to vote applies with equal force to the extension of the suffrage to women. The strongest argument, I think, was the contention that any class, however hard it may try, cannot legislate in the interest of another class, not having the experience necessary to become thoroughly familiar with its need.
Argument Gains Strength.
"Strong as it is when applied to different classes in society, the argument holds true with even greater /orce when used with reference to the sexes. As long as men are men and women are women, it is essential that womeu should have the power to make responsible to them the men who enact the laws. The marriage laws, laws affecting children and laws regarding the conditions of the employment of women are all of primary  importance  to  women.
"What, if I may inquire, would happen is a society where women made all the laws affecting men in their business relationships? There would be a revolution, the worst the world has ever seen. Men would never submit to such a condition, and small blame to them if they didn't."
To amend the bad laws on the English statute books, said Mrs. Pankhurst, the women of the country have begun what may truthly be called a civil war. She then described in detail some provisions of the marriage laws and the statutes covering the disabilities of married women. Taking up some of the proposed legislation which is receiving most attention in England to-day, she said:
Social Legislation in England.
"1 don't think you have advanced so far in this country in social legislation as we have in England. In England there are three great parties, the Conservative, the Liberal and the new but rapidly growing Labor party. They are all talking about social legislation, laws to correct evils which you haven't reached as yet in Rochester, as overcrowding, race degeneracy and the-growing problem of the unfit. Practically all of the fit in the English cities have gone to the colonies, leaving the unfit behind them. Although these social problems are of supreme moment to the women of the country, the Liberal government has not consulted the women as to how to deal with them."