New-York tribune., 1910-02-18
MISS PAUL'S STORY
FIGHTING FOR TOTES.
Praises Scotch and Shuddcrs at
Prison RecOUectiOns.

1t was more or less as if the corridors
OF the Martha Washington had moved
down to Cooper Union. with a stop in
irving Place to pick up recruits from the
crowd at the German Theatre. They made
about thousand citizens in all. assembled
to honor Miss Alice Paul and to hear her
tell how it feels for an American girl to
undergo forcible feeding in an English
JAN for the sake of the good yellow flag
OF woman suffrage
Ihese are times to live in and be glad
OF IT over on the other side, to guess from
MISS Pauls flashes of vivid narrative.
She has particularly warm place in her
heart for the Scotch a hardy race which
lives to the north of England and votes
early and often against Home Rule for
Ireland
'Ah, they're a very sterling, very fine
race, the Scotch she cried, squaring her
slender shoulders under a gown of loose,
white tea party looking stuff They had
in the police van at the Glasgow rSeer
ing before we knew il. Through the bars
I saw the crowd surge forward to help us.
1t was only a glimpse. but We they
meant to get us out. We saw the police
whip out their truncheons, and we
mems heads cut open and faces with blood
streaming over them
Then Il was fine at Dundee too. A
great crowd came around to the prison
where we were, and the wardens were
afraid they would try to get out by
force. When we came out the Lord
Provost of the town presided in a great
mass meeting in our honor, to shew how
the best people of Scotland felt about our
treatment.
IT.
plause that would bring tears oy bucket
fuls to the eyes of a German Theatre
comedian and would shock the Martha
Washington management into passing a
dividend. There was also genuine SYM
pathy for Miss Pauls story of the forcibe
feeding, which was really not pleasant, to
hear.
Il can't say exactly" she said. 1T is
exceedingly painful. When 1t is over
ones nose bleeds constantly and there is
trembling and dizziness. I never went
through it without tears
Then she told the story of the Lord
Mayors dinner, when one of the policemen
who was searching the building threw his
cloak over a hidden suffra gette's feet, and
later the women shouted speeches through
a hole in an indoor window. That story
even broke up q cats cradle game in which
some young women in pigtaiis were in
dulging in a far corner of the hall.
Concerning the present inactivity OF the
suffra gettes. of which lovers of incident
have complained, Miss Paul explained that
the recent elections have SO shaken the
position of the Liberal ministry that they
are expected to be more lenient with the
women. Until it has been proved other
wise the suffragettes will look for victory
r1-i4l tLsr
Just what the audience thought about the
rights and wrongs of the militant meth
DDS. or their expediercy or inexpediency.
not clearly shown They left no doubt,
however. that they admired Miss Paul i'm
mensely and Miss Inez Milholland a great
deal, and that they were altogether in love
with DR.. Anna Shaw, the venerab BILE chair
man. They passed a resolution expressing
sympathy for the English women who have
undergone so-called government persecu-
ton, another expressing disapproval of the
Dana. bill at Albany which demands q
popular majority vote for the passage of
constitutional amendments and another
condemning the Bracket bill which calls
for a. straw vote Of the women of the state
to decide whether they want the suffrage
or not.
Among those present were Mrs. Louise
Caldwell, Miss Augusta Chlds. Mrs Mary
H. Willard, Mrs. ". H. Gardner, Mrs.
Archibald Alexander, Mrs. Charles Tiffany,
Mrs. John ". Brannon. Mrs. Egerton Win
throp, Mrs. Henry Miller. Miss Annie
Stone. Mrs. Richard Aldrich, Mss Jessie
Ashley Miss Alice Lewisohn, Mrs. Thurs
By and Miss Rose Schneiderman, vice
president of the Women's Trade Union
League