Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-14
SUFFRAGETTES BRAWL
WouId-Be Women Voters Hurt
Their Own Cause.
THEIR CRUSADE IN LONDON
British View of the Turmoil in
Portugal.
PERSONALITY OF BATTERSEA
Institution Of the Public Trustee
ship Act Will Cut Many Family
Lawyers Off From Incomes.
special Correspondence Of The Star.

men without property quai1ncat10n can
exercise the right to the exclusion of in
relligent women of property, but it will
be necessary for the suffragettes to con-
vert women first, as Mr. Herbert Glad
stone told them the other day. The
women of England do not. as a body,
want the franchise, despite what Mrs.
Golden Sanderson, who is now on your
side of the water, says, and most women,
womanly women, despiSe and loath the
shrieking. fighting sisterhoOd.
The increasing violence of the suffra-
gettes at meetings addressed by cabinet
ministers makes 1t necessary that fresh
measures should be adopted for check
mating these tactics. No less than four
meetings addressed by ministers have
been thus broken up during the past week,
and now no women are allowed at these
gatherings unless they are known. The
deliberate policy of the party which fol-
lows Mrs. Pankhurst is to promote the
cause of women's suffrage by making dis
turbances at public meetings and Selling
on all other opportunities of creating u.s.
order. The suffragettes have broken out
again in the police courts, where they ap-
pear and protest against mere man sem
fencing female ''drunks and disorderlies."
Some time ago this plan was tried in a
feeble and tentative way, but lately 1t
has been carried out on a systematic scale
In several of the pc Ice courts in London
and IN different parts of the country.
Police Are Alert.
No doubt the suffragettes will next ap-
pear at the Old Bailey and protest against
women prisoners being tried by male
juries. In the courts of justice, however.
they can easily be dealt with, and after
they have uttered two or three sentences
they are turned out by the officers of the
ment meets the party Of violence will re-
sumo their efforts to disturb the proceed
lngs OF the house of commons on greater
scale than they have yet tried. They
WILL however, find this very difficult.
They will not be allowed to approach the
Palace of Westminster in large bodies,
and though they may make their way
through in small detachments the ponce
are so fully prepared that they are not
likely to be caught by surprise.
The suffragettes took another and more
legitimate method yesterday Of calling at
tention to the cause of women's suffrage.
A number of them paradeG the streets as
sandwich women with DoarGs bearing
such inscriptions Votes for Women"
Whether their appearance excited much
sympathy for the cause may be doubted.
The leaders of the movement have not
yet apparently realized that their first
duty is to convert women themselves to
the cause of the parliamentary franchise.
At present the great majority Of women
are either Indifferent or hostile.
Corruption in Portugal.
There is no doubt that much of the
commotion in Portugal is due to the eff
forts that Franco, the dictator, is making
to stop corruption. Naturally he has set
a whole wasp's nest about his ears by
having abolished sinecures right and left.
There were some lady searchers at the
customs WHO drew nice salaries, but, of
course. did not search; secretaries to le-
cations in receipt Of pay. who never at
tempted to visit the capital cities sup
posed to be the scene Of their labors;
high-salaried post Office officials, who
might not even know where the post Of
flee was situated. There have been all
sorts of delightful posts. which the in
genuity of the two parliamentary parties
has rugged up over a number Of years for
the benefit Of their friends. all having the
same pleasant characteristics of nothing
to do and plenty to get.
Senior Franco has laid a ruthless hand
upon them all, and If the ex-snecurists
were resigned and pot beside themselves
with rage they would be less than shuman.
THE king gets his bit STILL they ex-
claim wrathfully: Franco sees to that
Why shouldn't we get ours?" And so
they fan themselves into anti-dynastic
fury. A merchant with large interests in
the country remarked to me today that
when the last crisis occurred in Portugal
some years ago his firm insured their
hundreds of pounds worth Of Portuguese
On this occasion they had not done so be-
cause they had arrived at the conclusion
that there was no serious danger of an
outbreak.
Kaiser an Advertisement.
Some good people in Bournemouth were
not slow in approaching the advertising
value to the town Of the kaiser's stay in
its vicinity They have been endeavoring
to turn 1t to account, with results that
have been somewhat amusing to the
kaiser. If not sometimes little embar-
RAISING Certain members Of the corpora
ton have been most active In attempting
to make use Of the kaiser, for their own
personal g!orification and, no doubt. for
the good OF the town, but their efforts
have hitherto failed.
Very polite requests have been forward
ed to Highcliffe Castle to his imperial
majesty, with the aim of getting him to
visit certain hospitals and sanatOria. The
kaiser was shrewd enough to see the real
object of such invitations and they have
therefore been futile. The most brilliant
| idea. however, was that Of a member of
| the corporation who invited the emperor
| to attend a large public concert in the
| town and ito conduct the orchestra" 1t
| Is a pity that the kaiser did not ACCEPT
| this offer. Tetrazzini would be a poor
draw compared with the kaiser on the
conductors pedestal.
Death Of Lord Battersea.
1t is hardly too much to say that Lord
Battersea. who died on Thursday. was
| the most picturesque figure parliament has
known in the past generation. With his
finely modelled features. charming man.
ner and fascinating personality. he had
the qualifications Of an ideal whip Lord
Battersea who in his house of commons
days was known as Mr.. Cyril Flower was