The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-04
WOMAN TAKES MANS PLACE AS AGITATO2
I'M GREAT MOVEMENTS FOR RETIREMENT OF
HUMANS HER VOICE is LOUDEST IN APPEAL.

fortably if they could obtain the
GueIling of the suffragettes.
The ''bObbies" of London know
how to restore quiet in the turbu-
Ilent White-chapel district. They can
| disDerse a mob of riOting Wharfmen,
! but when the suffragette takes to
the warpath panic reigns among
those charged with protecting the
public order.
Right up to the very floor of par
lament itself these bold agitators
have carried their crusade. Their
meetings in Hyde Park have drawn
thousands of partisans, and in re-
sisting arrest they have fought and
struggled with officers who dare not
use the heroic means that would
have been employed against the 9th
er sex
One of these leaders has lately
been in this country carrying on the
propaganda, and striving to arouse
her American sisters to the same eX-
IRENE as prevails in England.
Mrs. r J. Golden SandersOn has
drawn crowds, and her thrilling re-
cital of the resistance she offered to
what she terms the tyranny of the
law has been applauded all over the
United States.
Mrs Sanderson calls her cam
paign the Militant Suffrage" move
ment. She boasts the fact that for
demanding equal suffrage for wo-
mon on the floor of parliament she
was arrested, tried, convicted and
became a political prisoner.
Experiences such as these have
had no terrors for this stern apostle
of a principle. She revels in every
sacrifice she must undergo for the
cause, and asks no greater reward
than to note the steady advances
that the campaign is making all over
the world
Against VivisectiOn.
Not long ago John d. Rockefeller
donated $1,000,0O0 for the founding
Of an institution in New Jersey
where vivisection should be prac-
ticed with the idea of achieving as
great an advance as possible in the
war of science against human suf-
fering.
A distinguished specialist was put
in charge of the project and mere
man settled back in expectation of
results.
But the gift only famed into fury
the opposition of woman to expert
ments on living animals, no matter
how great the anticipated benefits.
Led by Mrs Caroline Earle White
of Philadelphia, president of the
Woman's Pennsylvania Society for
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, a
campaign has been launched to null
ify the gift. The governor of the
state has been enjOined in impas-
stoned language to prevent the al
legged tortures to helpless animals.
Science has been invoked to show
that no real good ever came of such
experiments.
The opponents of the system of
vivisection got such a hurricane start
that they have put an enemy on the
defensive, and Dr. Fexner, in charge
Of the institution, admits that its
work is likely to be seriously dam
aged unless wOman's opposition can
be stopped.
Retty Green, hailed as the richest
woman in the world, is another born
disturber Though she has more
money than she can .e-er hope to
spend she has constitutional objec-
tions to being robbed.
She takes the position that of all
classes of professional men the law
yer is least just in the charges lie
makes for his services, and as the
disputatious .Iettey is constantly be-
ing emJrolled in legal squabbIes
she is never exempt from rows with
lawyers.
Last year she had bitter tilt with
Attorney Sherman H. Whipple of
Boston, and the case attracted ma
tional attention before it finally
reached a conclusion.
Mrs Green made the fight on prin-
ciple, not because she couldn't af-
ford the money.
Society has often been surprised
at the tendency of the rich, beautiful
and socially eminent Mrs Clarence
Mackay to get into public disputes.
She came to be school director at
her Roslyn (Long Island) home
Later she worried prison authorities
by opening an inspection of promf-
aent iails with the idea of forcing
more sanitary conditions and better
treatment for the unfortunate in
mates.