The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-29
MET AT JAIL DOOR
sUFFRAGETTEs HONoRED BY As-
 SOCRATES.
They Were Carried off To Breakfast Where There Was Speech Making Against The
 Government

London. Nov, 2s--Five members of the National Women's Social and Political Union were released from Holloway jail a few days ago--Miss Ada Wright. Miss Clara Coda. Miss Selins Martin. Miss Mabel Capper. and Miss Aeta Lamb. all of whom were imprisoned for attempting to rush" the House of Commons on October l3. Two brakes filled with sympathixeFs. headed by a band, met them outside the jail and accompanied them to the Inns of Court Hotel, Holborn, where a welcome breakfast had been arrang- ed, the usual march from the prison being omitted owing to the inclemency of the weather. Mrs. Pethick Law renee was in the chair, wfEh Mrs. Drummond beside her, and both ladies were vehement in their denunciationA of the treatment which Miss Aeta Lamb stated that Mrs. Pankhurst was undergoing in Holloway. The result of the breakfast speeches was a un- animous resolution to besYege Hollo- way until Q definite promise of better treatment for the imprisoned leader is given by the Home Secretary.
 Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, addressing the released ladies as 'dear family" said the Liberal women had announced a great meeting for December in the Queens Hall, at which Mr. Lloyd George was to speak, and a Ieputation had come to the union to ask that the Suffragists would not pursue their usual tactics on that occasion. Her answer had been that If MT. Lloyd George came to give a definite pro- nouneement on behalf of the govern. nent that votes for women would be in the Kings speech this season they HFa. - could ask anyone they liked to address their meeting, but they need not have gone out of their way to choose a man on whom the union had declared war, and they must understand that while Mrs. Pankhurst was in prison no truce could be made. She urged the mern- bers of the union to make December the occasion of the greatest protest they had yet made.
 MT. Takashi Mara, Minister of the Interior in the Cabinet of Marquis Saionjl, which resigned. in July. is now in England and has given to The Times a statement of his views as to the present conditions in Japan. He says:
 The first expansion in Japanese trade and commerce followed the war between China and Japan the next followed the Russo Japanese war. The last of these wars placed heavy burdens upon Japan, and the financial position of the country was temporari- ly not so satisfactory as could have been desired. From that fact some foreigners had concluded that the condition of the Japanese people had deteriorated. This however. was not the case. On the contrary. Mir. Hara stated that he has noticed great im- prevement in the general condition and daily life of the people. This inn provemept is not so evident in great cities such as Tokio and Osaka where the conditions are rather different from those in the interior; but in the interior the people have become bet- ter-to-do, and even the war does not seem to have had any permanent bad effect upon them. This must be at- trIbuted to the fact that since the Chinese war the whole nation has real ized the necessity of making stand against other, countries. and of quail tying itself to compete with the indus tries, manufacturers and commerce or the rest of the world.
 The ,Japanese have endeaVored. therefore, to improve their old methods. If 1t was the fact. as he asserted it to be, that the condition of the people in every part of Japan had much improved, 1t must also be the case that the financial condition of Japan was not nearly so bad as some people might assume. because the i'm movement of the condition of the people must result in an improvement in the national resources. If this com tinued. as he hoped 1t would. Japan would have no difficulty in bringing her finances into & most satisfactory state. The peasants were in posses: sion of the national securities. and # their condition had deteriOrated they would doubtless have tried to sell them. On the contrary. they were rather anxious to keep them. regard ing them as the best investment. An other indication that there was no reason for anxiety as regards the finances of Japan was afforded by the fact that the price of rice. which might be taken as the equivalent or wheat in European countries. being very necessary to the people was about ten yen per koku about five wears ago, whereas now 1t was fifteen ven per koku. If the condition ot the people had not improved. such an In crease in the daily expenditure would have been met by a general complaint on the part of consumers. No such complaiEit was heard, and 1t might be deduced from the fact that the con .