The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-02
ENGLISH
TO NEWSPAPER WOMEN
Mrs. Pankhurst, Slender Little Person, Is More MotherIy
Than MiIitant-Would Enlist Pretty Young Girls in
the Cause.

Outside a crowd gathered and the girls
stopped to explain their object.
The next day they were arrested on a
charge corresponding to our charge of
blocking the traffic. and sentenced to sew
eral days In prison.
"And how do you think I felt" said
Mrs. Pankhurst, the blood rising to her
cheeks at the very recollection. You
have heard people say that we did things
for notoriety. Do you think that / enjoyed
having my daughter In prison and some Of
my Oldest friends cutting me dead on the
streets-for that's what they did. DO you
think any woman would have gone
through that for notoriety?"
That was the only time Mrs. Pank-
hurst showed the slightest sign OF weak
ness In speaking of anything she had un-
dergone for her beloved cause.
Her Imprisonment.
OF her own Imprisonment she spoke
with entire Indifference. She has been Inn
prisoned twice-once for heading a depu-
tation of Is wcmen to the house of COM
mons. and the other time for putting up
posters inviting people to come and help
the suffragists rush" the house of COM
mons. Both times her health was so deli
cate that she spent all of the terms In the
hospital ward Of the prison.
A sentence suspended until a legal@point
CdD OG dGtloSo 40 CfCh INV dl6IIS v
her head.
"And aren't you terribly afraid 1t will
be decided the wrong way and that you
will have to go to Jail again. l asked.
why, no. she said, 'it can't be de-
cided wrong Either way will help the
cause, If we win our point that means
tina all the others have been imprisoned
unjustly. And IL they decided against us,
we that means Mrs. Pankhurst and 90
| other women, also under arrest-"wil go
to prison and protest by the hunger
strike"
The hunger strixe-be It explained TO
anyone who is not familiar with that term
is a peculiar method of protest that some
of the suffragets have put into practice.
Considering themselves unjustly impris-
oned, numbers of them have simply re-
fused to eat. One woman tasted six days
and five hours. When the women reached
a dangerous state, they were freed.
Lately. however, the government has
taken to feeding the strikers with a stom.
ach pump-that is, to pumping the food
down their threats. This method has beer
known to result fatally n its use hal
caused a storm of protest in England
which was, of course, exactly what the
suffragets wanted.
If. on her return to England, the court
decides against her, and Mrs. Pankhursr
| goes W pTloOl, SIG, toop VIII icluoo ~
eat and will probably be fed in this dan
gerous way.
No Advice for America.
On only one suffrage question does Mrs
Pankhurst refuse to speak. h abso
iutely refuses to give any advice rs to thu
way the suffrage campaign should be con
Quoted America.
"Why, that would be as imp%ertinent a
II I went into another woman's kitchen
and gave her advice" she said. 81 onl.
came over here to tell you how we av
done It, not how you should do 1t. Cond
tions are different and you know that IA
better than l."
Mrs. Pankhurst believes that women cal
help the suffrage cause by beauty an
charm as we'll as by militant methods.
1.-THE more pretty young girls we can en-
list to plead for us. the better" she said.
She herself. both On the lecture plat
form and on the street, is always charm
ingly gowned usually in some combinatioi
of her club colors-violet, green and white
Her street gown was a lavender cloth an