The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-26
WHY SHE is HERE.
Mrs. Fmmeline Pankhurst, Lead
erof British Suffragettes,
Addresses Notable Gathering
at Carnegie Hall.
FOR VIOLENT METHODS
She Has Come to Tell the W0m-
en- Of America
How to Wrest Right to Vote
From Congress.
FOR VIOLENT METHODS

New York, Oct. 26.-Rarely if ever
has Carnegie hall seen such gath
ering of women as assembled there
last night under the, auspices of the
Eouality league of Il self-supporting
women, to welcome Mrs. Emnleline
Pankhurst, the British militant SUI
fragette, and to proclaim their own
right to vote.
On the stage WERE 70 teachers; 81
physicians; six dentists; 40 social
workers; 38 trained nurses; 120 trade
unionists; eight actresses, including
Miss Carlotta Nelson and Mrs. Beat
rice Forbes Robertson; ten musicians;
Miss Anna Peck. the mountain climb
err: four civil engineers; Is business
women; 16 authoresses including
Charlotte Perkins and the Countess
de Grammong; three sculptorS; one
architect; four Journalists, including
Mr.. Ebert Hubbard; 16 civilian Wo-
men; rs lawyers and representatives
of three trades in which woman can
compete.
Though the meeting had been an
nounced for Sis, the hall was crowd
ed long before the hour and more
than 1000 were turned away.
Mrs. Pankhurst was introduced by
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, national
president of the equal suffragists, at
ter Geographic greetings to her nus
band were read by Miss 1nez Milhol-
land, the latest recruit to the cause
who was recently refused admission
to the Harvard law school. Mrs.
Pankhurst said in part:
..I am not here to tell you why we
want the vote in England but how we
are going to get it. You have heard
much of our methods; you have con-
demned them, but whether they are
right or wrong, Objectionable or not.
they have certainly accomplished our
object of bringing the question before
the British public as a practical po-
litical question.
.'It may be violent but where did
men get anything but by violence??
Where would this republic be if your
fathers had not thrown the tea into
Boston harbor?" 80
Favors Violent Methods.
The fight for wonan's suffrage is
to be carried into the American con-
gress if Mrs. Pankhurst has her way.
On her arrival here she was greeted
by a small but enthusiastic group OF
admirers and supporters and at once
defended the militant tactics.
.'All great movementSn have been
worked out by violence she said.
THE American people secured their
liberty by violence. so why not rush
the House of Commons to obtain
what we regard as our rights? The
ballot granted the women will make
lilSLi I1CiS iiltCiiiSClit, 1883 oCAl-SOli-
tered, and on the whole much better
citizens"
Don't you think that there would be
corrupt women politicians and women
ward healers' % Mrs. Pankhurst was
asked.
Could Not Be Worse.
She laughed outright. Then, after a
pause, said: well, 1 don't think it
could make politics any worse, at any
rate
Mrs Pankhurst declared that she had
been a suffragette as long as she could
remember. She had gone to meetings
in favor of the emancipation of women
when she was only IA years old, ae-
companied by her mother. who herself
was an ardent advocate Of the cause.
Mrs. Pankhurst will remain in the
United States until November o.
Mrs. Pankhurst is slight of stature
and has a wealth of brown hair, which
is just turning gray. She looked a
typical English woman and was dressed
becomingly in dress of dark material.
st am coming to America" she said.
ito speak on the subject of equal rights
for women and to study the situation
in this country. / think we are away
ahead of you in this matter"
Proud of Prison Badge.
AS she. talked Mrs. Pankhurst dis
played a little medallion she wore and
explained that it was a distinguishing
mark worn by those .Englishw omen