Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-01

Inn some two years ago, and demanded
| to be enrolled as a law student, Moth
ing daunted by the stern refusal she
| secured entrance to the Law School Of
| the Victoria university at Manchester.
| When the final examination came the
| name OF Christabel Pankhurst headed
| the long list of the successful bachelors
| Of laws. More, for she secured honors
| and the gold MEAL. Yet when she
: asked to be called to the bar the
| Benchers OF the Temple and the Inns
Of Law denied her application with
more forcefulness than courtesy
The action Of the big wigs had its
direct result In the present female suf-
frage agitation In this country, for IL
was practically Just after Christabel
Pankhursts rejection by the Benchers
of the Temple that the now famous
Women's Social and Political Union
was founded This was scarcely year
ago. Its birthplace was Manchester,
and the original founders OF the union
were Christabel Panithurst and her
mother and two sisters. Votes for
women was It's demand, and immedi-
ately enrollments poured in from the
surrounding country. Labor and So
cialistic organizations welcomed the
union. Christabel Pankhurst became
the chief organizer. She toured the
North Country and the Midands.
Branches were established In score
OF towns. Politics were then swlrlng
through England The elections were
at the flood, Miss Papkhurst and her
comrades secured pledges from the can
didates for parliament In all ii0 Of the
members elected to the house of COM
mons-about three-fOurths of the en-
tire house-pledged themselves In favor
pf 9ttff
what worker, a real hustler, is Chris
label Pankhurst
HOWLED DOWN.
At several of the big political meet
ings Miss Pankhurst and her most val
liable cowerker, Miss Annie Kenney,
tried 10 secure a hearing. But they were
refused n place on the platform and
whenever they tried TO speak from the
floor they were howled down. The
doorkeepers were finally ordered TO re-
fuse them admittance at future meet
ings. Christabel rose TO the occasion.
At one most important meeting she
coolly climbed up a ladder, crawled
through a window into the gallery. of
the hall and appeared with her banner,
Votes for Women AT the psychologist
al moment
DulIS pollN'Hltll HtlStu ntl, luSHtu
her out of the hall and flung her TO
the sidewalk. outside she attempted to
address an Indignation meeting, The
police charged, seized her and the chair
on which she was standing, and march
ed her TO jail. In court next day she
refused Ia recognize the ''man-made
law ana was sentenced TO five days.
MARTYRS TO CAUSE
She served the time and was thus
the FIRST OF the women who Claim to
be martyrs for the cause who went 10
jail. Chris,abel although the leader,
the commander In all subsequent dis
turbances, has always managed 10 es-
cape arrest. She believes she can do
more for the cause by not going to ian
After the general election Miss Pank.
hurst came to London. She established
branch here. With her came several
Lancashire girls, Scotch women ora
tors and leaders in the womeus labor
unions.
At first London absolutely ignored
them. Then, as they continued hold
ing outdoor meetings. petltIoning par.
lament and asking cabinet ministers
to receive Populations. attention was
attracted.
London laughed at their antics. The
newspapers ridlculed them. Some of
the women were arrested for raising a
disturbance outside the house OF the
chancellor OF the exchequer. II. ". As
quith. The women were nicknnmed
"Focligans, or THE shrieklng Sister
hood They were Illustrated as be-
specialized, elderly frumps.
Chrlstabel Parkhurst calmly went ON
with her work throughout this storm.
She laughed with the world, at the
ridicule at the absurd cartoons. She
laughed and joked at her meetings ON
her canvassing trips. And oil tho time
she worked quietly eecrettv pArhans