Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-25
BREAK WINDOWS,
SAY SUFFRAGETTES
IN FIERY SPEECHES
u. S. Men Called "Pig Headed
and thick Skulled" at
Jersey Meeting.

The Rev. Anna Howard shaw, presi-
dent OF the National American Wom-
ans Suffrage Association. and Miss
generalship in the "Votes for Women"
army through refusing to eat in an
English prison, were the principal
! speakers before the Essex County
Branch of the Association In the
Church of the Redeemer last night.
The Misunderstanding argument, the
hunger strike appeal, practiced so con
spicuously and unnecessarily in Eng
land. were reviewed and sanctioned,
and some very frank and straightfor-
ward opinions about men in general
and the American brand in particular,
were advanced. These opinions were
not complimentary to any appreciable
extent.
Mrs; Shaw outlined roughly and
painted in glowing basic colors a nice
practical work day millennium. which
she assured her hearers would result
when women In this country were en-
trusted with the ballot. When that
glad day arrives, according to the
speaker, the rich will no longer rule
the por; lost faith in humanity will
be restored and this will cease to be
a nation of infdels where all republic
anism is dead"
1t may have been an oversight on
her part or perhaps she was pressed for
time, but the speaker contented her
self with generalities and neglected to
say how votes for women would ac-
compllsh these pleasant things.
U. q. Men Thick skuIIed.
1T will be only a short time" Mrs.
Shaw declared, emphatically, before
New Jersey and every other State in
the Union will have women's suffrage.
We have been working for sixty years
for the privilege of being a citizen.
Our object will soon be accomplished.
In all those years we have been sweet
and lady-like in our efforts to obtain
the ballot. We are slowly but surely
being forced to the belief hat American
men are not less thick-skulled and pig
headed than our English cousins, who
put women who ask for the vote in
jail"
''The trouble with this country is
that men believe the classes should
rule the masses; that the property
holders, being rich, should be given
all the chance The poor. because they
are poor, should bow to the aristocracy
and should pay high prices that the
trusts may provide luxuries for the
rich. The woman's ballot will bring
back the trust of the whole people and
the whole people are more to be trusted
than any separate class.
"If the ballot is obtained there should
never be a separate women's POLITICAL
party. This would be the acme OF fool
ishness. The only way that women can
hope to accomplish the reforms which
we have worked for for sixty years Is
by cooperation with men,"
Mrs. Shaw's address followed that of.
Miss Alice Paul, of Moorestown.
Urges Breaking of Windows.
"In England the women have become
tired of arguing in a constitutional
manner,' she said. "They no longer
stop to argue. When they want a thing
they return to that t~ime-honored n
historic custom of breaking windows.
Although they have Kept within the
bounds Of reason and. have only broken
small windows, they have been dragged
to Jail. Yea, literally dragged. Parties
of six women who went to see the
members of the cabinet were knocked
down and choked by the policemen
merely because they were standing
around.
"At first the women were treated as
political prisoners and put in division l
Of the Holloway Jail. This is the divi-
sion where all political prisoners are
kept. These prisoners are allowed to
nave their w food, wear their own
| clothes. be visited by their friends and
receive mail. When the authorities saw
that the women still continued their
efforts, the prisoners were placed in
division 8. This is the worst the jail
! affords. The inmates are compelled to
associate with murderers n other
criminals.
"Their cells are dark, damp and
dirty. Lighted only by a small window
in the top, where the light is only
strong enough to cad by an hour on
the brightest days, the time seemed
centuries, Petitions and pleas were
sent to the justices. To no avail. Then
the hunger strike was started. This
idea was taken from the Russian reVo-
lutionists,
when the prisoners refused to eat.
even though they were offered the
daintiest morsels of food, forced feed
J ing was tried, With a rubber tube four
or five feet long forced through the
~nostrils into the stomach an attempt
was made to prevent them from starv-
ing to death. After a few of these at