New-York tribune., 1911-01-07
WOMEN TO LINE Up
Miss PankhurSt Tells Them How
to Save Themselves Shame.
PAINTS A MURKY ENGLAND
Young Suffragette Lectures on
Bloodshed of London Battle,
When Gore Soiled Hat.

Women, be sure and get In line with
the suffrage movement, so that you will
not he ashamed when your great-grand-
children ask you. What part did you play
In the movement? and bear down hard on
the YOU For It's bound to come IT does
not matter how much you object to IT. 1t
Is coming
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst. the very latest
importation in the way OF an English
suffragette. urged this on crowded audi
enee last night In Carnegie Lyceum. All
the leading suffragettes were there-some
In the audience some on the stage There
were men. too. Bolton Hall and Robert
Erskine Ely and two other men sat on the
stage, smbushed by seekers for the ballot.
Miss Panknurst. who has a pleasing face.
was earnest and enthusiastic. With fine
simplicity she related all the troubles the
English suffragettes have had with that
troublesome House OF Commons and those
pesky English newspapers that under no
circumstances will do what the suffrage
party wants them to.
England's all wrong as far as suffrage
goes. Miss Pankhurst says so. For In
stance. take the matter OF vaccination.
Why. In England, II you don't want your
child vaccinsted you must go to court and
say. I'm a conscientious objector." But
It's no use for the mo or 10 do this, be-
cause she Ia not regarded as a parent And
thus the child Is vaccinated willy-nilly
Women who push the tubs along the line
in coal mines do half the work and are Ill
paid, and so are the women who do the
hne machining on boots And these are
only two OF the injustices.
Some Englishmen don't want a baby 10
sleep with It's mother" said Miss Pank-
hurst The Children's Charter forbids this /;
though I can't say that it matters much IL
you are not found out
'Shamel Shame! Shamer' cried suffra-
gettes In the rear OF the hall
And then" Miss Pankhurst continued.
there are the Lancashire cotton mill work
ers, who are walked early of a morning by
knockers-up, who hammer on the door
with an iron instrument. and who labor
all the day. They are poorly paid, too.
Think OF suffragettes who lie out on roofs
in the cold sometimes forty-eight hours,
before they can Chamber in a window TO
ask Liberal the question about suffrage!
Think OF Annie Ksnny's white hat-a very
pretty white hat-which was stained by
blood from the hand OF Miss Christabel
Psnkhurst when the stewards in the House
tried to pull her down!'
MiAs Pankhurst was serious, and so was
the audience. when she told the story OF
the trials OF the suffrsgettes In English
prisons. Her tale of the prison uniforms
with the repellant broad black arrow. the
forcible feeding. the dungeons the hunger
strike and all :he other details brought out
cries Of "Horrid" ugh" and Shame"
None Of the women who went through
these experiences will ever be the same
again. she said. and then went on to grill
the liberty loving Mr. Asquith and the
Liberal government those two upholders
OF political freedom" Mr. Asquth's name
was hissed
Miss Pankhurst said that she was sure
that It was suffrage that once defeated
him, and that other Liberals had been baf-
fed by the same influence. Some people in
England think II is tariff reform that has
done IT, but Miss Pankhurst is not one Of
these
Every law that comes before Parliament
suffers because woman has no vote" she
said, and added pertinently: IT'S a strange
thing that an Englishwoman is too igno-
rant TO vote but can come out and stump
for her husbands votes when he wants to
run"
The suffragettes have a brand new but
ton now. IL is q picture Of a purple lady
with o fve-starred flag and a horn, and
standing on a billow Of green clouds. The
motto is not Excelsior" but Votes for
Women" which amounts to the same thing
in the mind OF A suffrsgette.