The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-19
GREAT STRUGGLE ON
IN GREAT BRITAIN
Women VIII Wage Deadly Bat
tie With the Liberal
Candidates.
1T WILL BE A CONTEST
THAT WILL BE MOST BITTER
Sufragette Movement Is the
Reason for the Warfare
on Liberals.
BY LADY HENRY SOMERSET
pecial Gable to The Tribune.

Special Gable TO The Tribune.
LONDON. Dec lS.-The coming
election will afford scope for another
warfare. 1t will be the movement of
the great suffragettc struggle, and the
women are beginning to gather, east
and west, north and south, in order TO
do deadly battle with the liberal can
didates as they may. Lady Constance
Dytton, the daughter of the well known
author, Lord Lytton, and grand -daugh-
ter of his still more famous father, is
now called to occupy a prominent place.
She was committed the other day TO
prison for using a hatchet to break
windows during Mr.. Asquith s visit to
Leeds. She was sentenced, with sew
cral other suffragettes, but was re-
leased almost Immediately, and when
she challenged the home secretary, Mr..
Gladstone, as TO the reason for her re.
lease, alleging that it was given on ac-
count of her rank, and that the favor
itism was. unfair. the home secretary
stated that the reason she was released
was solely because she was suffering
from heart disease. and that violent
resistance on her part would have been
dangerous.
1t is difficult 10 understand how pow
erful is the wave of enthusiasm which
passes over body Of people and sweeps
IN It's current women of such strange
~ different compartments and oppor-
tunity Not long ago when she was
released from her former Imprisonment,
j went to hear Lady Constance Lytton
speak at Bath, girlish figure, almost
frail, with sngularly womanlike APP
pearance and gentle expressive face,
she certainly did not represent the type
of suffragette which is usually depicted
in carlcature or print. She gave
history of her conversion to the cause,
and only now and then could one see
the flicker of the flame of the en-
thusiasm which had caught hold Of her.
II was there-the Cause, with big
c had become a very part of her be-
ing, but one could not help feeling that
it was perhaps the first time that some
great outside interest had laid its hand
upon her and claimed her. How many
will be sent 10 prison before the end
of the election it would be difficult TO
say, but | venture TO prophesy that the
vast majority of the sutfragettes will
find their way into the prison walls
before the next government is in Of
fee.
Protest Against Congo Misrule.
No demonstration has ever been held
in England in which the opinion were
more unanimous, the feeling more en-
thuslastc and the quiet determination
TO carry a point more marked than that
which was held against Congo misrule
at the Albert hall, with the Archbishop
of Canterbury in the chair, The stories
of cruelty arc all too we'll known 10
need rcitcration. The last book which
has appeared, 1.-The Pools of Silence
tells tale which it would be difficult
TO equal and impossible to contradict.
for once the Albert hall was crowded
with people whose opinions varied on
almost every other subject. The great
diguitaries of the Church. the repre-
scntativcs of NoncOmformist bodies,
members of Parliament, liberal and con-
scrvativc. they were all there 10 de-
nomce the hideous outrages that are
pcrpetrated in the Congo Free State.
dark aud shameful record. said the
archbishop, (which sullied the pages
of English history. when England held
almost n monopoly OF the West African
slave trade, hut Just n century ago she
purgcd herself forever of the shame
full stain, and now we must determine
that VIC will never be parties directly
or indirectly to the renewal and main.
teuancc of what is virtually a slave
system, embodying all the worst fea-
lures of those evil days. In no meas
ured language DR.. Clifford said that
King Leopold had houted Europe, and
that if ever n thief ought to be prose
cutcd in the high court of Europe for
his infdehty to his trusteeship it was
that king - The brave words that
were spoken and the determination of
the spirit of those who were present
will not be in vain. 1t is god that
this important meeting took place dur.
~, L,, iSif nf \ pf
ugal. May il cause him 10 look into
he condition of AG2olG.
About Duchess of Manchester
Among the familiar figures in Lon
don society none has been better known
that ConsUelo Duchess of Manchester,
She was among the very first Ameri-
cans who married an English duke. |
we'll remember her first advent in Lon
don Her mother, beautiful South
American woman with wonderful con
tralto voice, would sing song after song
to delighted group OF friends, accom-
panied by her daughter Gonsuelo, and |
also can well rccollect the announce
ment OF her marriage to Lord Mande.
vile. the eldest son of thc Duke of
and of Louise, the well
known Duchess OF Manchester. after
wards Duchess of DeyonShire The
which existed between the
elder woman and the younger must
nave maze England Il UapDlel pldce W
The girl who was there 10 find her home.
Although she was one of the most bril-.
liant figures OF English social life, the
great sorrow that rested upon her left
is mark Her twin daughters. remark
able for their beauty and their charm,
we're both taken from her, and al
.hough she still remained in London,
,ne of those bright figures who carried
with her n peculiar charm, clever mu-
,ician, Il witty talker and an accom-.
)lishcd linguist, there was a touch OF
sadness over the last years of her life,
.nnnnnirnL nnrhnnc only hN her frinnnA