The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-07
Mrs. Valentine, President of Vir-
GINA League, Returns
From Europe.
SAW GREAT DEMONSTRATION
She Describes Contest Over
Pending Bills in Parlia-
inent.

Mrs. Ben Valentine, president OF the
EQUAL Suffrage League OF Virginia, has
Just returned from spending June and
July in London, England, where she
witnessed the suffrage demonstration
OF July 0 in Trafalgar Square. and,
from vantage point on the Nelson
column, looked down on the speakers
and on the 10000 suffragists, men and
women, who stood in serried ranks
within the square, cheering their lead
ers and waving their bannerets and
devices.
May Sinclair. the talented English
writer, little woman OF frail ply
sique, but possessed of q militant and
suffragctte spirit. was a conspicuously
we'll known figure on one of the Nell
son Column platforms during the
speaking at this demonstration. Mrs.
Valentine said yesterday that 1t was
most amusing after the speeches were
over to see Miss Sinclair being ten
derby assisted in her descent from her
perch to the ground, by burly Lon
don policeman.
A working man in the crowd OF on
lockers called out 1T seems lo!ke the
Boobies is more afeard of the Iydies,
as the lydies is of the Boobies. cos the
Boobies does handle 'em ginger" The
working classes in England, 1t APP
pears, arc largely in sympathy with
| the sunragists for a poor sandwich
man on the south side Of Trafalgar
Square. hired by the ANTS" to bear
on his shoulders the inscription. "Wo-
men do not want to vote pleaded his
excuse as a pretty young woman
| chaffed him and waved her banner In
his face. by declaring.%It's ard. yer
know, for the loikes OF me to pick ur
an honest living. And I has TO dc
what / don't likes. becos I'm paid to
But don't want to keep yer out yer
votes, lydy. And hopes yer'll win
does"
Here and there through the square
Mrs Valentine could hear voices sing.
ing the refrain in an echo Of bar
I.rack-room ballad" written after Rud-
yard Kipling, and then shouted from
| one end of London to the other. Some
| remembered lines ran after this fash.
ion:
For It's woman this. and woman that
| and woman. go away!
But It's share and share alike, ina'am,
when the taxes are to pay.
When the taxes are to pay. my friends
the taxes are to pay,
! Oh. it's Please to pay up promptly!
when the taxes are to pay.
Tor it's woman this, and woman that
and Woman. say your say!
But It's What's the woman up TOT
when she tries to show the way
When she tries to show the way. m,
friends. when she tries to show
the way.
rAnd the woman means to show it
that is why she's out today!"
Unique Procession.
Heading the procession were doves
symbolic OF the peace which has nov
been adopted by English suffra gists
They made a pretty contrast with tn,
rich colors of the massed banners
with a waving forest of evergreen
tied to white wands with scarlet rib
bons. and with the crimson banneret
I! recording the number of men in vari
Gus constituencies. who signed thu
| voters petition at the general electio,
of last January.
/ Among the speakers were Mrs
Philip Snowden. Miss Frances Ster
ling. Miss Alison Garland. tho Hon
Mrs. Bertrand Russell, Lady Cccili,
Roberts, Lady Horsley and others. TIL
/ DuCnesS OIL MARLBOROUGH ana Otne
English women of rank passed anon,
the immense crowd In the square
distributing literature and selling
suffragist paper. Votes For Women.
England Is fifty years ahead o
America wherever suffrage Is concern
ed. is the opinion Of Mrs. Valentine.
I'm England" she said. "sunrag
has come to be an openly avowe,
principle. and the main topic of con
versation. the burning issue OF tn
Sday The reason which delays it's be
coming a law is not because the Eng
lish nation does not recognize the jus
tice of its demands. but that the at
ytitude of the opposing parties in Par
lament renders each afraid Of q pre-
ponderance of votes for the other
should the women get the ballot.
1.-THE Englishwomen are keen politi
clans. thoroughly versed in all tn
questions of the day, and show to ad
mirable advantage in speaking. An
you must remember that 1t is not a
4 easy thing for a woman to face a Lon