The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1906-12-08

AmellCanS are InUNH lnitItSltu III
the struggle of English women for
suffrage, and their strenuous tactics
in attempting To force their demands
have won the admiration, If not the
Endorsement, of their sisters across the
water American women want the
franchise, that is. many do and have
been for years carrying on an active
campaign to gam their point, but pic
ture the American woman storming
the capitol building at Washington and
seeking by violence to gain the pres
once of the members of congress
But in England things are different
and when the women there want any
thing from parliament they 80 after
it in a different way from that by
which her American sisters would.
And it really begins to look as though
a few determined British woman suf-
fragists are going to make parliament
give them what they want by means of
tactics which, if employed by men,
would have not the remotest chance
of success. The suffragsts-Suffra
gettes they call them in England-are
making a deliberate and well.organ-
lied attempt to shame and scare par
lament INTO granting votes to women.
When the cahled accounts of the re.
cent actions of the Sulfragettes at the
entrance to the house of commons
reached this country il looked as
though parliament and the law courts
had to deal only with a handful OF
rather violent cranks, but this view
must now be considerably modified.
According to the latest dispatches
some of the won, an who created a dis
orderly scene in the puricus of par
| lament and later, on refusing to give
bonds for good behavior, We're sent to
/ Holloway jall are still In prison. There
Is no occasion, however, for any great
| amount of tears on their behalf. The
! British government has ordered that
! they be treated as first class misdc-
meanants," which means that they
have all the comforts of home, and
that all they suffer is the loss OF ~
erty to go out when they want TO. II
they desire it tncy can even have their
pianos brOughG to their cells and
they can order their meals frora the
| best restaurant in London.
The women who have been making
what some of lhc London newspapers
! have called "disgraceful scenes" are
! by no means rlcrc Cranks. Most of
! them are of gentle birth, and mum.
| Der of them haze attained prominence
! in various avCcations. One OF the
women sent to Jail is Mrs, Coodep
! Sanderson wife of the celebrated ar.
/ tist.bookbnder and daughter ~ the
great Golden, who, with her sisters, IS
well known as a philanthropist An
other is Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence who
! has done notable work on behalf of
| poor girls in the alums of London. A
third is Mrs. How Martyr, a bachelor
Of science OF London university. to
gain which degree one must pass an
examination the stiffness of which
~ proverbia. Mrs Montehore, an
other OF the women sent to prison. is
well known as 4 writer, while Miss
Ellington rs a school teacher, and Mrs.
| Baldock is a member of the board of
for her efforts OF, bor Of the poor
Mrs. Pankhurst. W, Il not the lead
or OF the movement, has become per
haps its most prominent exponent,
has served for several years as a mem
Der of the board OF guardians of Man.
chester Miss Irene Miller Is a daugh-
ter Of Mrs Florence Fcnwlck Miller,
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author. The mention Of Mrs. Miller
serves to recall the fact thatalthUugh
the suffragettes are having quite an
easy time of it in Jail, they were not
at first treated as first-class misdc-
meanants, and the news that they
were being subjected to the same in
dignitlcs as ordinary prisoners drew
forth various bitter protests in let
ters to the London papers. Harrow
ing accounts Of what they had TO on
/ dure we're printed, and many were the
/ epithets applied TO the government
for its "cruclty" and "heartlessncss"
Naturally conservative EngIishmCn
are Mortified at the "cXhibltiun" the
/ suffragettes have been making Of
themselves The Times was particu-
larly severe in it's comments, 1t spoke
4 If the "unseemly and disgraceful
scene" at the house of commons. Of
: the Outrageous conduct Of the WON.
cn, and Of their pathetic confidence in
the mystical powers Of banner =
The Times added that the whole affair
was excessively vulgar and silly
and that it offered "a very good object
lesson upon the unfitness o. women to
enter political life" Hysterla, ii add
a, claimed even these gently born
women for its own just ais II they were
Of the ruIcst and most ignorant class
And then II spoke Of the essential
disabilities imposed By the feminine
organization and the utter dcbasa
ment Of political life that would b.
involved in Welding to The clamor OF
sgch a mob
But ths Times got as good as it gave