The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-16
ADvANTAaEg oF MARrYpoM.

an essential condition of success. Toleration or indifference may be favorble to show growth, but the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. Contemporary events in Eu- rope show that the principle is as clearly recognized nowadays as it was in early Christian times, and that it's application, if anything, is wider in scope than 1t ever has been. This is inevitable in democratic age. Null tlply the audience, and your spectaclc of undeserved suffering gathers in- tensity of appeal. Include among the | observers women as well as men, in- troduee the press, the telegraph, the samp- speaker, and other devices for stimulating public feeling that the an- elent world did not know, and you have all the conditions needful for I turning a single case of martyrdom into a national uprising, Government have learned this from experience, and hve grown creful.
 In the present religious struggle in France, the Church has been jealous Tn courting persecution, and the Cabi- net has been equally concerned to re- fuse it the desired boon. With pa tience that we hve not learned to re- gard charcteristiclly French, Prem fer Clemenceau nd his ssociates have made concession after concession, and in the face of refusal hve declined to l be hurried into violence. When we re- collect that so comparatively unimport- ant 8 procedure as the taking of church inventories gave rise to dis order and bloodshe, we must be struck by the unbroken peace that has hung over France during these last two l weeks of intense crisis. 1t is a strug gle, strange enough, where either combatant is manoeuvring to let his opponent deliver the first blow, know ing that soft-hearted Demos, the great referee, will be inclined to the one suffers most injury. "Persecute me" cries the Church, T will not" says l lClemenceau; and clever politician that he is, he tries, by dint of offer | ing compromise and concession and having them rejected, to turn the tables and gain for himself the halo of persecution and the favor of the electors.
 The French Prime Minister had be- fore made admirable use of anti martyrdom tactics in connection witch the formidable miners strike of May last in the northern departments. l Then Paris was believed to be on the edge of instruction, and there is little doubt that if Clemenceau had let loose the troops against the riot ling miners serious disturbances would have followed On that occasion the French army is said to lave given levidence of probably unexampled morale, when a regiment of cavalry sat motionless on their hor, es under a storm of missiles from ! mob of strik- CTS, even after one of their officers fell dead to the ground; ard the Gov lernment profted by the revussion of public sympathy created by the incl dent. We may go back tdTther. to the jays of the Waldeck- -Rouss eau, wAen Guerin and his fellow royalsts hel 1 Fort Ckabrol' for < )yns days aglnst lthe Government. They defied the French army, but the Ministry, instead of sending soldiers, called out tho fire ldopartr ent. There s no use in making man martyrs when you can make them ridiculous
 Oddly enough, it Is Great Britain, tu7uall. 70 adept in enforcing order without persecution, that has made the most recent error of the kind and illustrated once more the inefficacy or repression. We refer to the battle of the so-called suffragettes, On Thurs day last the National American Wo- man Suffrage Association wrote to the Womens Political and Social Union lof England:
 We wish to express our admiration of your earnestness and self sacrifice
 and our indignation for the brutality lwith which you have been treated.
 Our hearts go out to you in your courageous and unselfish devotion to l a great principle, and we believe the
 severity of the Government will have the effect of arousing the indiffenet and convincing the undecided, and
 that it will hasten the day of you full
 enfranchisement. May your brave
 hearts be sustained and wisdom grant
 ed by that Power which in all ages
 has called into service those who were worthy to be the forerunners and
 martyrs for truths sake.
 Between the suffragist and the suf- fragette there is a distinction to De ldrawn. One is the embodiment of a (theory; the other is a concrete fact IThe suffragists are pacific. They are active in the clubs they dine in honor
 of the cause, wearing pretty gowns
 and jewels; they even distribute pro lelamations. But pacitists they are
 and therefore negligible. They are the
 Constitutional Democrats of Femin-
 isme. The suffragesttes are the Ter.
 rorists of the movement, the Maxi
 malists, the Fighting Organization
 They boldly invade the Parliament ol
 Man, they form flying wedges, they get themselves carried out shrieking
 No timid votaries these, praying se'
 cretly in the catcombs, but arden
 confessors, who revile the imperia
 imges in the public squares, beset by
 a passion for martyrdom.
 And martyrs they. are. It is not only
 that the suffer physical violence a
 the hands of beef-eater or bailiff; it i'
 not only the much sharper pain arous
 ed by the though of what flights the,
 must look as they are carried out O I IL.
 the hooting of the mob, the prisoner
 dock, the prison fare of bread ant
 cocoa; 1t is not even the employmen