Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-14
Put not your faith In Sugar trusts
STAY AT HOME, LADIES!

Miss Alice Paul. militant suffru
gette. will have ample time to the in
tcrya,s of hsr month of imprison-
ment in Holloway Jail to ponder nj ON
the inhuman celebrity and precision
Of the English courts. She went to
England. nc doubt. har5oring more
or less vivid conception OF swift
judicial processes. for she was from
New Jersey. the home Ct Jersey JUS
tee; but II is extremely improbable
that an adequate picture of the al
most instantaneous English system
was in her minds eye. else she woull
have hesitated couple of years be-
fore throwing that brick. AS ii is.
she found herself in prison almost be-
fore she could tell callous policeman
what she though of him: and there
she VIII remain, despite the fact that
her grandfather, Irdge Parry. was
reputed TO be one OF the wealthiest
men of his day
American suffragettes OF warlil,e
temper would do well. 1t seems. 10
stay at home. In this fair republic or
ours, despite their eloquent objections,
the sentimental view OF women stili
mitigatts and ameliorates jurisprud-
ence. We do net allow educated wom-
en- to vote. but neither do We send
them to the stone pile. To their most
incendiary harangues we listen with
genial patience; and even il they
should take to throwing bricks 1t is
improbable that we should lock them
up with common felons and disorder
lies. No; Anne RIGA is still young
country, and in consequence ro-
mantle one Even lady murderers are
given long running start before JUS
tice starts after them. When the
are finally brought 10 trial sob squad
in always on duty ready to wiring
tears in their defense when actual
evidence languishes And after they
have been duly acquitted and hidden
not 10 do 1t again. We pay $3.50 head
to see them in rFloroda" or Ca
Mile"
In England sentimS Mt Is a lost art
The judges over there are granite
ancients VINO devote their whole time
and attention to the law. and know
nothing acout millinery. A 50 spotted
veil impinges upon their frozen
minds. not as thing OF beauty. but
as an obstruction to. vision. So they
order that IL be stripped from The
culprit and thrown out OF the window.
No places in the courtroom are re-
served for descriptive writer's" The
prims-dcnna attorney Is unknown. All
that the judges demand is a straight
forward account of the facts in The
case. Once IN possession OF those
facts, they turn to the Law, and what
ever the law orders shall be done in
the premises is done at once.
Let American suffragettss beware.
England. We repeat. ID no place for
brick throwing ladies'. In this coun-
try disordeTly conduct among persons
who fretend to be gentlewomen is
skill rare enough TO bear the charm OF
novelty. and even If i grew common
IN y. bile and the courts might just
~ decide 70 10 be an improvement up
Oh ibsen.sm and bridge whist; but
In England Il has long since passed
the amusing stage. In that benignted
monarchy. indeed. a lady who heaves
4 brick through the Lord Mayors
window at l p. m. today may not IN
reasonably CT to end herself be-
reath scme prison shower bath ~
=. m. Tomorrow. a; any rate. such
W. the depressing experience Of
Mi Alice Paul issc Of New J,rsey.
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