The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-14

procure offices for the candidates of
their choice and sex. While deeply
gratified at the great Roadway the suf-
frage movement is making here, Mrs.
Pankhurst declared that the belated
state of America as regards woman's
questions is glaringly apparent. Amer
lea, she says, is behind the times, and
has been slow to grasp the true mean
ing of a great movement even when it
was explained to her.
American women are behind u.s."
said the militant martyr, while sum-
ming up the situation here. Il am sur
prised that there should be so little feel
ing among women generally on the sub
ject Of suffrage. I will admit that you
have made wonderful Roadway in the
past year or so, and are now on the very
eve of getting for yourselves that which
has taken us nearly a century to accom-
plish. OF course, you will never get the
vote until you really want it, but bear
in mind that the fight against the men
is simple when you have united women
aligned against them. We find our
men comparatively Open-minded; they
are awakened to a new interest in wo-
men through the movement, and 1 am
always amused when people worry
about a dying chivalry. Old things are
bound to go, of course, but we have
based our struggle on chivalry, and
have seen a very interesting new
chivalry spring up. Your men are re-
puted to be the most chivalrous in the
world; therefore, your fight should be
the easier"
Lady Frances Cook is Of a different
type. She is a woman of rare delicacy
and refinement, and whereas she takes
as a TT in fob
for ballots for women, she has never
been imprisoned for the cause. Logical
and fOrceful arguments, coupled with
peculiarly winning, persuasive powers,
are her weapons, and she never fails
to charm her audience.
The women of Great Britain and
America will get the ballot within the
year. This is Lady Cooks prophecy.
Whether 1t comes here or in England
first is an even chance, she says. Here
it may hang on any sudden emergency.
On the other side of the water, she
says, it may be forced upon the poll
ticians to stem the tide of threatening
revolution. Some of Lady Cooks ut
terances are paradOxical. After setting
forth her views in her soft, purring
way, she recently made this rather an
archistic utterance;
'Woman's struggle for the vote in
England is to the death. 1t is the strug-
gle of desperation, of maddened des-
peration, and some of the women now
engaged in it would look for nothing
better than to die before Asquith. The
English minister, TO protect himself, has
before now been obliged to take his
women on more than one platform with
him, for the suffragettes respect their
sex. But if the battle there is not soon
won it is patent that blood will be the
outcome. There will be bombs thrown;
there will be murder DONE"
Americas suffra gettes so far have not
given voice to any such violent utter
ances, but nevertheless they are work.
ing with a quiet and grim determina-
ton that augurs i'll for the men who
cross their path or block their progress
in their fight for equal rights and en-
franchisement. 1t is coming and, like
all coming events, it casts its shadow
before it. In this case Mrs. Pankhurst
and Lady Cook furnished the shadows,
for their coming plunged the American
suffra gette into a ferment of enthusi-
asm and there Is no stopping her.