Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-05
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Women in Sitting
Prisons.
BY ETHEL R0SEMON.

You often hear men say. we don't
want to see the ON voting. We de-
sire to put them ON pedestais.' But we
don't like pedestals. Most of us are too
busy 10 stand calmly on a pedestal,
and. besides, ever If &c had the time,
we wouldn't enjoy that sor; OF life
The woman who objects to the idea
% being perched on a pedestal erected
BY men who refuse women political
equality with h assurance that they
wish to give them pedestalistic supe-
riority is Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst,
who spoke last night at the Symphony
Auditorium. She herself is really on a
pedestal, but 1t is one erected by women
the world over, who look 20 her for
lead -rship in their fight for political
If. 0 AS we read u the battie SHE
is Waging across The water we are apt
10 picture her as one of the earth's big
woinen. WHOSE plumed helmet could be
seen towering far above those of her
sister battiers.
She is b.. In intellect, in sympathy
in Il clear. broad understanding of the
orld's forces, she is gigantic.
In stature, in feature, she is a mite
of a woman. dainty and charming,
with an indomitable energy that does
not detract in the last from her
femininity.
1t Is difficult to picture her in a
prison eel; still more difficult to pic
ture the MAJ who could confine her
there.
And this little English woman held a
large audience in which there were
many men so interested last night that
all forgot the passage g time as the
lived over again with her the struggles
of her countrywomen.
why, she didn't ram a Bit" over
heard one woman say. with surprise
written all over her face.
OF course she didn't rant. She d
u message to deliver, a message that
she knew 20 be good; one I'll I would
convince without gestures, without
ranting.
1--WE admire the achievements of yol
men, she said. you have built vas.
empires. but you have neglected to
build them on firm foundations. You
have failed to realize that you must
begin with the children. YOU won',
understand how to deal with them ul
III you itdNt bllt 1OOBtf AZ " IN pRSA
men and the hest women. When you
come to the care of the children, the
old. the sick and the fallen. you enter
a woman's province. If you strive to
do our work you undertake something
that is beyond YOU.
When you play our games you put
the handicap not On the weak but on
the strong. Does Ii seem fair that in
addition to our bearing the race you
handicap us by d%epriving us of the
means of lettering our conditicn?"
In explaining the steps that led up
to the much criticized stone-throwing
Mrs. Pankhurst said that in the first
years of the movement women were
permitted to attend political gatherings
and to ask questions at the end of the
meeting. soon the men in charge found
that they always had to catch a rain
before the open question time, so the
lost their chance. This was fol-
lowed by an endeavor to have their
questions answered before the meet
ings. then during Interruptions, and
finally when ON were excluded
from the gatherings some o. them hid
under platforms for as long as thirty
six hours waiting for an opportunity
to put their queries.
A last we had to resort to flinty
messengers said Mrs. Pankhurst.
"Stone-throwing has always been part
of the political game in England, but