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

Suffragetting has long since passed
that stage where it can be designated
fad. 1t is now a reality, and a stern
one at that With the advent OF WoIn-
en- high in the social scale Wlthlh us
ranks. an impetus has been given TO the
cause of suffrage which is sending II
forward with such a steadily increasing
mower that legislators in all parts OF the
world have begun TO realize that Won-
ans fight for her rights is no longer the
historical shrek of that class once
sIurrinelv referred to as 1.-The new wom-
an but a well organized and careIully
mapped out campaign OF women thor-
oughly capable of fighting their own
battles.
The arrival of Mrs. Emeline Pank-
hurst Fnglands most militant suf1rag-
cite. on these shores, coupled with that
of LADY Frances Cook, another Eng
lish woman whose fight for suffrage mas
taken her to every corner of the world
where civilization has penetrated, mas
brought about an Ominous activity
among their American sisters Inc
Civic federation and affiliated Dooles
Outdfd themselves in arranging reCep-
lions and mass meetings IOr the MS
tinguished visitors, and wherever their
voices were uplifted in the great com
mon cause there was an OutpOuring OF
women that taxed the police TO their ut
most to hold the crowds in check ana
prevent harm from Detailing them IN
their mad rush to see hear and be seen.
In APPLYING the term militant TO
Mrs. Pankhurst l do 30 adTisedly, For
il must be remembered Mrs. Pankhurst
had the temerity to beard the British
lion In his very den. inasmuch as she
TH,o cd cor n house
of parliament, leading her horde of sut-
fragettes, and from the hallowed par
lament terrace she harangued and ha-
rangued until she harangued herset
into jail This was not all. Running
counter to the orders of London stoics
the police, or Boobies" as all we'll
regulated Britishers dub them-she held
mass meetings in all parts of London,
and again and again landed in jail. The
last time she served her prison term,
and when she emerged from heI incar-
ceration, she was proclaimed and her
aided as THE suffragette of suffrag-
cites And why shouldn't she be?
Didn't she twist the lions tail?
OF her. experiences in London, and es-
peciaIly while in prison, Mrs. Pank-
hurst recounted to her American sisters
with rare feeling and elOquence. She
is proclaimed the one woman VINO sur
fering suffragette can have almost any
thing within the gift of her American
sisters she cares to ask for.
Mrs Pankhurst's appearance at Car
negie hall, in New York, a few weeks
ago. clearly demonstrated the wonder
fuI growth and inter st in the question
of suffrage in Americas foremost city.
Carnegie hall was designed to seat an
audience of 5000. According to Police
in, fallu Of .
police arrangements, nearer 5000 pant
ing. perspiring and struggling women
forced their way into the hall on this
occasion. 1t was an orderly crowd, too,
for Captain Post said so, adding: THE
ladies are behaving as well as possible,
and those gentlemen on the inside are
conducting themselves like perfect la
dies
1t was only necessary to take a casual
glance at the tier of boxes fringing the
gallery to be convinced that America S
foremost women have for the once set
aside the more arduOus and exacting
routine of society to plunge with heart
and soul into the fight for women s
rights. Among those occupying boxes
that night were Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont,
one of the 1wealthiest and most prOmi-
nent women in New York and New
ports most exclusive sets; Miss Helen
lions left by her late father, Jay Gould,
and who. since his DEATH has spent
money lavishly upon her pet charities
in an effort, it is said, to make repara-
ton for the uncharitableness of her
grasping and money sire;
Mrs Russell Sage whose late husband S
millions came to her long after she had
passed her sixtieth milestone in life S
tourney and, like Miss Gould, is devot-
ing the remainder of her years and her
multi-miIliOns 10 the alienation of SUI
ferfng; Mrs. J. G. Phelps Stokes, who,
as humble Rose Parsons, devoted the
years prior to her marriage to her mil
lionaire husband to the betterment of
conditions on the east side, and Mrs.
Clarence Mackay, wife of the president
of the Postal Telegraph & Gable COM
pany, and the foremost suffragist IN
America There were hundreds OF
others equally prominent, and among
them might be mentioned Mrs. Borden
Hartman Mrs. John Milholland, Mrs.
Henry Phipps, Mrs. Ebert H. Gary and
Mrs. William NJ. WINS, whose husband
once had aspirations to be New York s
MAYOR These are names to coSs1re
with, for each and every one OF them
have plunged into the suffrage move
ment with all the earnestness OF Gull
tured women, who have at their COM
mand countless thousands 10 back tnem
in the battle for the ballot
Of course, the winning over Of Mrs.
Belmont to the suffrage movement Is
looked upon by those who have fought
SO long and against such crushing
odds. as the most signal victory of their
career. Mrs Harriet Stanton Blatch
had more TO do with Mrs. Belmont's con-
version, perhaps, than any one else,
and she was the one who first an
nounced the conversion of the mistress
os Viewpoints marble palace. Mrs. Bel
mont however, declares that the con-
version of Mrs. WINS was even more
remarkable than her own, for to Mrs.
Belmont Mrs. WINS recently said, ~
had rather kick a poiiceman's hat off
than listen to an English suffragette."
When Mrs. Pankhurst was introduced
to her audience by Mrs. Ella HaWley