Evening journal., 1909-10-22
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Friday, October %. 1909
MRS. PANKHURsT NERVES.

HAT ardent sensation lover and leader of
\ the suffragettes of England, Mrs. PanlS-
hurst, has arrived. Naturally the first place she
started for was Boston--home of cults, reforms,
intellectually, beans. There she will be given
a greeting. On her return to New York
she will address a large meeting in Carnegie Hall
on Sunday night.
II Mrs. Pankhurst really likes the sensational,
as they say, she has come TO New York at an
Opportune time. The municipal campaign In
that city is on. 1t is violent in language, 50 vo-
lent that it should be pleasing TO Mrs. PanS-
hurst. Hearst is running round loose, bespat-
tering everyone that gets within range of his
mud batteries A lone female leader of the suf-
fragettes has tried to inject that question into
the New York campaign. She has appeared at
several meetings. At one of them she carried
confusion and broke up the meeting. AT am
other she was firmly but gently led from the
room by a stalwart policeman when she insisted
on questioning the candidates.
Now the Al am" of the movement herself IS
here. Why shouldn't she attend the Hearst
meetings or the Barnard gatherings, or the Cay
nor confabs and Carrie Nationize them? A
splendid opportunity she has to create real sem
saton, TO set the cables or the wireless a-buzz,
so that the cousins on the other side of the water
will know that she is here and doing something.
America is the land of the glorious sensation.
Mrs. Pankhurst will hardly be able to resist the
chance.
Ii happened on the very day of her arrival
who dared invade that sacred precinct with doc
trines that the street disScs 1t seems that
a Socialist candidate is in the field for Mary
or of New York along with the others lie
started a soap box campaign in Wall street.
What happened in that abode of free speech2 A
thousand hooting brokers' clerks, messengers,
office boys and gamins got after him and there
was bedlam Of noise and disorder. Men yelled
at the Socialist speakers from the sky scrapers.
The bass drum battle between the Salvation
Army and the 'wet" speakers in this city during
The local option campaign was not circum-
stance to the Wall street commotion.
When the first Socialist speaker mounted the
box in Wall street some one dropped bag full
of water from window which hit him on the
head When the speaker asked his tormentors
whether any one of them was getting more than
So a cheerful faced youth replied that he was
getting more than that for helping 10 elect Ban
nard Mayor Money comes easy in Wall street.
as it did in Dagsboro during election times years
ago.
No doubt If Mrs. Pankhurst visits the street,
she will be greeted in the same manner, for Wall
street has not taken kindly TO such speakers.
And in Philadelphia, she may have to submit her
remarks to Director Clay, for Mrs. Pankhurst
has an English record for fighting and defying
law and order
The English leader looks to America TO lead
the way. She depends upon American women
10 make the effective demand for equal suffrage.
And there is little doubt that If they want
ed it. they would get it. She tells them that they
will have to go TO prison If necessary. But that
is small matter, she says. English husbands
and sons and brothers used to object 10 their
women relatives going TO jail, but they have got
bravey over that We fear, however, that Mrs
Fankhurst will be disappointed when she calls
for the volunteer jail squad.