New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
UNLIKE MRS. BRYCE
uiss ArnOld Would Electioneer
for Init Husband.

III Miss Ethel Arnold were married. ana
u her husbands seat in Parliament hung
in the balance. she wouldn't refuse TO cleo
tioneer for him. as Mrs. AMMAN Bryce has
dene. just because he didn't believe in
woman suffrage. Miss Arnold said yester-
day. in an interview at the home of Mrs.
Frederick W. whitridse. No. Is East lith
street. where she is staying since her ar
rival on sunday from England. that shs
thought Mrs. Bryce ought to be IN Scotland
helping her husband The success OF tha
Liberals means so much more 10 England.
she thinks. than the success OF woman
suffrage that. much she desires woman
suffrage. she believes every Liberal woman
should count the party frst and woman's
cause second. Votes for women. she said.
could wait
Miss Arnold. who has come to America
to talk on suffrage and the economic po-
sition of women. brings gloomy news OF
the suffrage movement in England II
seems TO her that woman's cause will
have to wait there. and all because O. the
militant surragettes and their dofngs-
Don't" she said earnestly. whatever
you do IN America. don't put on the red
cap. The militants have set the public
against the cause immessurabIy in Eng
land AS an instance. in the last borough
local Offices in London-good women nosh-
ing against them personal---very. five vera
returned. Friends OF mine Who canvassed
for these women teId me that the peopla
10 whose houses they went laughed in their
faces. fWhatt they said. vote for a wonn-
an candidate after the wav women are zo-
ing on2 No. fndeed.' -
Some of Mrs. Pankhurst's youthful at-
herents. Miss Arnold said. had been worked
up TO a state of hysteria IN which they
would stop at nothing
"A friend Of mine she related heard
one Of them say at a meeting. oh. well,
some of us will have to swing for this
sooner or later. so what's the odds7s Their
programme has developed rapidly IN the
last year I know that Mr. Asquith goes
daily in fear OF vftrioI Naturally, this
doesn't make our statesmen feel very
favorably toward woman suffrage know
that Mr.. Balfour. whose friendship has been
so much counted on. is reeOnsidering his
attitude toward the movement very much
Does Mrs Pankhurst sanction every
thing that IS done?" Miss Arnold was
asked
Absolutely. I went to see Mrs. Pank-
hurst after particularly militant demon
stration. and I asked her what. after all.
they got out of it. Advertising she said
Well / admit that the militants have ad-
vertised the movement, but is il worth
while TO commit Outrages for the sake OF
paragraph in the morning papers2
m sorry for the mistaken young re-
cruits to the militant cause It is pitiful.
the sufferings of some OF those girls OF
eighteen and twenty told off 10 break up
meetings They nearly die OF fear, some OF
them before the meeting takes place Some
have been known to faint again and again.
Just from apprehension. Then they screw
up their courage to go to the meeting and
scream out something; and then they are
thrust out
\ II have a great liking for Mrs Pank-
hurst think she is sincere. but she has
put back the suffrage movement in Eng
land / shouldn't be surprised" Miss Ar
/, mold added, If you in America got the ball
lot long before the English women But
don't get militant Woman suffrage is in
the air, it's bound to come. but dynamics
won't help 1T
Miss Arnold thought the government
quite justified in the forced feeding OF
the hunger strike s in Jail They could do
nothing else under the circumstances
she said
She differs with her sister. Mrs. Hum
phry Ward. about divorce as we'll as about
votes for women
My sister thinks divorce a disease" she
said 1T seems TO me a sign OF health
the revolt of girls against the double stand
ard of morals"