The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-14
A WOMAN WORK
What an English Woman suf- fragist Says of Her Experi-
 ence in Many Places.
FROM PARLIAMENT TO JAIL
General Booth, of the salvation Army Speaks Regarding Womcn-Mrs,
 Ward on Suffrage.

Mrs. Richard Brackenbury of Denver She has lately received letter from her sister, Miss Ellie Gibbs, wno has taken part in the demonstrations Of London suffraglsts, and like them shared the Inequalities of London jail. Miss Gibbs relates her eXper- | fence in an incarceration of five weeks because of her participation In the ef- forts to enter the house of commons, says the Springfield Republican, Aft CT simply stating that they strove to | get in, and the police kept them pack --bu! without any violence-she notes l that they were arrested. The next day they appeared at the police court and were sent to jail, She says
 We were locked up in separate cells, badly lighted very cold and more than dreary. l grew dreadfully chil- ly, and the thirty-clght days looming before me seemed more like thirty eight years. Presently the door was pushed open and a loaf of bread, SIX ounces in weight. and tin of cocoa with grease flakes floating on the top were thrust Inside. My first prison meal! The bread was bitter and harsh and could not get much down.
 The prison clothes were the follow ing: A vest enormously wide, of the coarscst flannel; knickers, ditto; fian- mel petticlat, tremendously full and heavy; q linsey woosey pettIcoat; green serge skirt of truly frghtful shape; bodice ditto, with one button at the neck and kept in place at the waist by coasc blue and white check apron; stockings enormous in the foot and short in the leg; shoes indescrib- ably ghastly, and, lastly, a little white cap tied under the chin with strings
 The first night was fairly awful, Everything felt so hard and smelt So horrid that 1t was appalling to think what a long time there was ahead.
 Here is the program of our days Up at 5:45; roll up bed and covers and place them neatly on shelf; put up bed boards against wall; let out of your cell to get fresh water and take in pail and scrubblng brush for'morn- ing clean ' o'clock, breakfast, six ounces of brown bread, one pint hot l milk and a piece of butter which with care lasts for three meals; S:lb, chapel. a long procession through cor riders. with wardresses glaring at you every few yards. All the suffragettes sat apart from the other prisoners in wing of the chancel.
 So much of the letter was published in the Denver News and it is suili- cient. The story is always the same but the folly of the methods of Eng fish authorities always strikes one afresh. Bad food, bad lodging and clothing, ingeniously selected to give the greatest discomfort, are so many blunders. They cause disgust. but never cause compliance.
 It is one of the grossest mistakes to create the feeling of being abused One has only to read of the reception of suffraeeues released after impris- onment for breaking MT. Asquth' windows Crowds filled the streets many of them, of course, woman suf- fragists. but many also who showed the feeling that still strongly exists that women, simply because they arc women, deserve respectful and consid- crate treatment
 While there was some extravaganza of action such as women unlooslnp the horses from 6 carriage in which some of the released prisoners were sitting, and drawing it themselves, the crowd as a mass treated the occasion as triumph.
 Now, it is very short-sighted for the powers that he to give occasion fol such exhibitions of feelings It makes martyrs of those just released, and SC invites rcpettions of the occasion ot their punishment, while if awakes ant strengthens the sympathies of tho public
 The aged commander-in-ch o the salvation army General Booth addressed q message to the army or the eve of his departure for Soutf Africa The world in general hal long been aware of his sentiments re- gardng women. but he thought it bes to make this personal statement tha none of his followers should fail t' understand his attitude Genera Booth said, in part
 My feelings and opinions with re spect to woman generally are knowl throughout the world My standarc on this subject is ever before you, ant \ | want the entire army to embrace it First and foremost, I insist o' womans equality, Every officer an, ' soldier should hold to 1t that woman
 is as important, as valuable, as capa
 ble and as necessary to the progres
 and happiness of the world as man Unfortunately q large number of poo ple of every class think otherwise They still cling to the notion of by
 gone ages--that as being, woma
 is inferior to man To many she little more than poything for thei leisure hours To others she is like
 piece of property, a slave in evorNthIn
 but name Ofttmes she is trcato
 with less consideration as to healtl and comfort than the horses that ru in omnlbuses or beasts that are ratton
 ing Cor slaughter.
 Now, the Salvation army has don
 and s doing something to comba i these hideous and hcathen notions.
 do not say that every pdiyidual fac
 ulty in woman is equal'to the core I spending faculty in man, any nor . than would say that each particula s capacity possessed by man fig equal { e the sang in woman They differ bot , in char8cter and degree But Wher . one is weaker the other is stronger
 For example in the power of will Ii and in the possession of physica , force the man will be often found ( q excel the woman on the other hand
 in quckness of perception, in power
 of endurance, and in strength of low