Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-02
Is OUTGROwTH OF
YESTERDAYS RIOT
DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF
HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT WAS
PARTICIPATED IN BY THOU
sANDs-PoLIcE RouT WOMEN.

LONDON, July l.-IWenty-SeTen
out of the twenty-nine women suf-
fragists arrested yesterday during
the suffragist demonstration be-
fore the house of parliament were
today ordered to pay fine and
give security for good behavior for
a year or go to prison for three
months. The majority of the wom-
en- elected to go to Jail. Two suf-
fragists who broke windows in the
residence of Premier Asquith were
sentenced to two months at hard
labor Mary Leigh admitted say
ing at the time she was arrest
ed that "It would be bombs next
time
London, July 1.-Modern London
never has witnessed more extrad-
mary spectacle than last nights DEM
onstration by the suffragettes. For
three or four hours vast multitude Of
men and women besieged the house
Of commons. Five thousand police
men had their energies tested to the
utmost to protect the precincts of
Westminster from invasion.
A small feet of police boats was
stationed on the Thames to ward off
sttacks by water. The land forces, in
Guiding all the mounted men of the
metropolis, had the warmest time
since the Trafalgar square riots of
.wenty years ago.
1t was the largest assemblage seen
In Parliament square and vicinity
within living memory. 1t was not a
violent demonstration, but those who
took part in 1t were SO persistent that
some rough work was unavoidable,
and the air was filed from time to
time with the shrieks and screams
of women, who we're being crushed by
the charges of the police, afoot and
mounted.
There were many arrests. Those
who were held number twenty-nine,
all women Two are charged with
breaking windows in Premier AS
quith's official residence, in Downing
street. The others are charged with
resisting the police.
Asuuitf's Defiance the Cause.
This elimination of the militant suf-
fragette party's agitation was the out
come Of Premier Asquith's suggestion
that the women of England had not
shown any intense desire for the suf-
frage Mrs. Pankhurst's cohorts re.
piled they would prove the contrary.
They met at Caxton hall in the after
noon and sent delegation of twelve
women, Mrs. Pankhurst at their head,
to see the prime minister. He re-
fused to see them, and sent word to
them to put their demands in writing.
They returned to the hall, with
grim determination showing in their
faces and hot words on their tongues
Mrs. Pankhurst declared that the
hour had come to show their strength.
Mrs. Pethick Laurence said in an
impassioned speech that women had
broken all records. In 1897 the women
presented the greatest petition par.
lament had ever known On June Is
Of this year they had held the largest
public meeting that had ever been
held, and on June 81 they organized
the most impressive demonstration
that ever appealed to any people or
any government She added that they
would produce another record tonight
Crowds Overflow all Streets.
They kept their word. They went
to Parliament square, not in a pro-
cession, for that would have been 6
breach of the old statute and subjected
all participating to a penalty of three
months Imprisonment. They Joined
/ the great mass of their synpathizers
who were already converging on the
square, but they found a forest oi
black helmets and battalions of mount.
ed police awaiting them.
The mob grew, as by magic until i
not only packed the great square, ou
filled Westminster bridge as far a:
Lambeth bank, blocked Whitehall tt
the horse guards headquarters packe$
the Victoria embankment and throng-
ed Victoria street for several blocks.
AS far as the eye could reach al
the minor conyerging streets were
simply dense masses of humanity. r
was, in fact, crowd stupendous anc
unparalleled among human assem-.
!. blages, comprising, as it did, largt
N proportion of women.
Many There for Fun Only.
Suffragettes mingled with the crowd
living to leaven it with their pro,
uganda, but the question of votes fol
Eomen seemed to be the last thing IN;
fajority We're concerned about. The,
hre attracted by the prospects of {
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