New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-12-01
BEWARE YE PRISON!
NO SUFFRAGE JOKE.
If Mrs. Pankhurst Dies There
Women May Get Potes.

Mrs. Pankhurst is prepared 10 die I'm
prison. II necessary. 10 get votes for
women" Such was her declaration last
night IN Cooper Union. on the occasion Of
her farewell appearance here. She will sail
for home to-day on the Teutonie prepared
10 meet the issue. IL the test case Is not
decided fn favor OF the sufragettes the
militant Mrs. Pankhurst and ninety Others
VIII so TO prison and serve a month
But they do not intend 10 submit pa
tiently 20 the prison regulations. They Will
refuse 10 dress I'm prison clothes. and II
they are forced 10 wear them they will re-
fuse 20 eat And n We die in prison. that
will have its effect" said Mrs. Pankhurst.
She was for fifteen years. before she went
into the suHragette business. closely allied
with the labor party in Great Britain, and
size does not think that IL will stand by
and see Them all die.
The English leader stood 'em up in Coop
er Union Every seat was filed. and the
black -goWned. moriar-toarded usherettes.
who also wore yellow badges asking for
''Notes for women" had hard time I'm
finding extra places around the walls.
Among those on the platform with Mrs.
Pankhurst we're Mrs. Ella lAawley Cros-
set. president OF the State Woman Suf-
frage Association: Mrs. Harry Hastings.
Mrs. Henry Willard Mrs. Harriet stanton
Blatch, Mrs. James Laidlaw. the Rev. Per-
cy Stickney Grant. Mrs John Brannan.
Mrs. Henry Phipps and Miss Jessie Ash
ley, president OF the Collegiate Equal Suf-
frage League. under whose auspices the
meeting was held. Professor John Dewey,
OF Columbia University. was the chairman.
Mrs. Pankhurst reviewed the history Of
the women's suffrage movement stating
that IL was a civil war which really began
as far back as 1882. After various efforts
OF appeal. those women who have been
called exceptional. she said. have decided 20
come down TO the level Of all. mo matter
whether bought and sold IN what is called
your Infamous white slave trade" until
they can all rise. But the women who
want 10 rise have no quarrel with the men:
I'm fact. Mrs Pankhurst said they did not
want 10 Cypress the men. They only want
them 10 give votes TO women"
II was this purpose she said. that led
them 20 chastise "one who had changed his
faith SO that he might become a Cabinet
minister" evidently referring TO Winston
CliuTcnin who had broken his pledges in
tie most fragrant and open way. and they
die il 10 show that women resent a lack OF
honor"
The guest OF the Collegiate Equal SUI
frGge League denied that much injury has
hpen done 10 property in England. Injury
was only done. she said. after the suffra-
Eettcs had become convinced that il was
necessary The story Of the attack on the
House Of Commons was retold. but Mrs.
Pankhurst said she did not want Americans
10 think that the newspaper stories about
biting and scratching and losing hairpins
and all that sort OF thing were true. The
only thing the women did was lightly 10
tap an officer on the breast in order 10
make a technical charge Of assault and
bring matters 70 head" She said her
daughter WAS taken by the neck and flung
under The hoofs Of the horses Of the mount
ID police.
II the women did throw stones they didn't
hit anybody, she naIvely said. The only
one who threw stone that did any good
or any harm was Mrs. Mary Lee, and Il
had message wrapped around IL. and
Mrs. Lee couldn't get the message in in any
other way. II cost her four months at hard
labor. but she is sun militant.
Al the close OF the speech. after Mrs.
Pankhurst had been cheered for a fun
minute. Mrs Blatch presented a set Of
resolutions protesting against the Eng
fish government showing its respect for
artistOcracy by liberating Lady Constance
Lytton and its contempt fer democracy
by subjecting Miss Alice PAUL for a lesser
offence 10 medieval prison brutalities, and
calling on King Edward 10 liberate a
woman whose only offence was proclaim
ing AT public banquet: Votes for
women" The resolutions were carried by
an aye and no vote, but those not in favor
mere not asked 10 say so.
During her answers 20 questions Mrs.
Pankhurst said that a recent suffragette
meeting raised more than $4,000 She
also said the suffragettes would try 20
retard the English budget il that would
bring about the result they desired
votes for women. There We're several
other questions, and one excited person
I'm the rear OF the hall wanted 20 have a
debate. bur was suppressed.
statement was handed 20 the re-
porters by one Of the women which read:
ITO all repOrters-For the first time %
many more people came 10 a suffrage meet
Ing that II was necessary TO hold an over
how meeting Inez Mlholland. Helen
Hay-Greeley and Elizabeth Ellsworth
Cook all talking al one time 10 differen,
groups. gave those who could not get IN
short speeches on suffrage"