New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-27
SUFFRAGE AT BARNARD
,frs. Sno7cden Describes English
Increment to College GartS.

go, doing sor,a research work in England with
m Oxford q few years ago sala s
shotweIi. he introduced Mrs fui!lp o. 49,.
.hs English suffragette TO the Barnard guns -
s,g Yesterday afternoon at the barnard CoHeee
theatre He was honor man. a ciaS-N"
Scholar ano his most intelligent conFeTsa'lon "a
on the Athenian constitution he gre" fea-ls
cuent only on that. lie did not seem &c see tlle
-o--5s a, The London streets or know that he was
living IN the twentieth century
we correspondent after got home once long
.n.erfn went BY without letter from him. ana
wrote 10 see what the matter and he aIlS''e'o1
that his wife had been in jail and ne mao O7eA
busy. ILL.,,
That's an illustration Of the way the college
people Of England have been walked up anu "s''i'
10 tel Mrs Snowden that a change Is s"eepius
ever the colleges OF America as we'll We are hhu-
Eng oct wha: century We are living IN ana NE u
better worth living
Mrs snoWden explained the suffragette move
,nent which she said Americans could not uhoeI-
stand. because it had been so misrepTesen'eo Oy
the press
our speaking out Of doors seems shocking 10
you said she English women have always been
accustomed speak out Of doors They lave zone
Il for years help their husbands when they ran
1or Office 10 help their party. 10 help the cause q
temperance or religion. No thinks anything OF
&. and they are treated with respect until they ask
for something for themselves. 1t is al right for
woman 70 leave the dinner and the STOCKINGS anu
baby help her party win an election pu' teA-
r5ble when she does il TO ask fer the vote
AS to inte1rupting meetings by questions you
must understand that men do that as Wei as
women, only the men are not thrown out and the
women are. Il is cur customary way No man
could be elected who refused TO answer questions,
! have caTnpaigned for weeks with my husband
when he was up for election While be was SPEAK
:ng e man would roar OFT: That's enough o that;
give something about old age pensions now
and when r speaking perhaps another would
roar: SGocd lass; give Us some more o that
Thy'-and the. speaker smied-'if had been
speaking "a this time English audience l
should be most unhappy. I should feel that they
didn't ike ne because they were 50 quiet
There laughter punCtured by applause
Suppose JONI Burns were the platform,
ehe continued, talking about the feeding Of school
children As he discusses ways and means per-
5ectly respectable woman rises and says in a
perfectly respectful way: Ny. Burns, don't you
think women ought 10 have something TO say about
such thing as thatT Instantly there is a roar,
md she is hustled with insults and with mis-
handling. Women passing up written questions 10
the speaker have seen them torn up before their
eyes. Women asking perfectly legitimate ques-
tions IN e perfectly orderly way have been in
suited by the speakers in public in ways cannot
TEL. for shame
who was it cried tshameT in the discussion
over the first bin in the House of Commons?'
asked some
THAT was Anne Kenney The little mill girl"
replied Mrs. Snowden, and 90 you know why
she did Il? The member made speech against
the bill improper IN language and half yelled
reference that il was entirely omitted from the
Official report. nor can I here quote IL to you he
closed address fun OF taproom allusion
by the remark: 7 know all about women. bless
you; I've buried two wives. Then Anne Kenney
cried Shame. and Il printed In the press Of
England and America as something greatly 10 her
oiscredt
They say said the speaker with twinkle in
her eye, that the police are terribly overworked.
But they needn't work so hard If they don't like.
Once was appointed TO head committee TO call
the Prime Minister merely to ask him Ques-
ton There were just thirty women that COM
nittee. and they had OFT FIVE thousand mounted
police TO keep Us Of.
Why Go want the ballot SO terribIyg' The
speakers voice grew deep and grave. It is not
merely for theoretical right. Il Is not because
were Jealous that have 2 right that We have
not its because We have problem Of poverty in
England before which you would sit aghast should
tel il ell a million and a quarter OF men in
England can get work Half crazed with hun
ger, they are IlGnacing our civilization. In London
1900 children going TO school insuficiently-
fed More than four hundred thousand persons live
Y II one-room homes, families OF nine, ten eleven
performing every action Of life within those four
walls. To exercise political power for the ending
q tlsse horrors has beCome religion with the
English women who are fighting for the ballot
Ana the ani-sufragists? They are the privileged
women, who want no social legislation That is
ths secret o. their movement"