New-York tribune., 1912-04-02
7CIlE BRAVE WOMEN VOTE.
sylvia Pankhurst's Meeting
Sends Message to Asquith.
AN ENGLISHMAN OBJECTS
a in Audience Moved by His
Plea 1T Would Be Breach
of international Courtesy"

-,,,.a the objection Of man with
4 .,,ong English accent up IN the saHerH
...+ 10 send such a message would pe
s-no,p Of international equity resoln-
-. % cable 10 Mr. Asquith 10 give the
r.oyA English women the vote was car
.,s5 at sylvia Pankhursts meeting at Car
IA Ivceum last night. with but thir-
,son dissenting voices.
r-bs resolution embodied another message
one of sympathy with and approval OF
-. militant suffragists. Both were formu-
,.,.d nv a man in the audience. who said
he name was II. II. Knox
parliamentary point was raised, as
-, es an international one. that II wasn't
.or,Act 70 ernbcdy two separate messages
=, onA resolution, but after Miss Pank-
vets stirring recital Of the experience. Of
tho rlilitants in their strife for the vote the
audience. apparently almost in complete
.ymnsthv with her. was IN no mood for
splitting hairs
v.rv simple and girlish the speaker
,.or.a IN her white silk gown, green veil
a,,,t her shoulders and purple violets at
49,, uaist-the colors OF Mrs. Pankhursts
.rr.rization. the Woman's Social and Po-
r,i,sl Union: very girlish in spite OF the
r,o, that. though she is the youngest Of the
.,b,se Pankhurst sisters. she is twenty
eight years old.
Quick at Repartee, He Found.
Rut she had the English political situa-
IT,, Of her tongues end, anyway, and she
n..s orick enough at repartee. as she
-,,,.S when the man with the strong Eng
v.b accent got Up TO call out az her that
.ns window smashing Of the suffragettes
bsd "aljenated the English people and put
,bs suffrage movement back"
NV friend" she cried. Il am older in
the movement than your
She means older in the cause. not IN
YEARS" said Robert Erskine Ely. the chair
man and there was a shout Of laughter.
And I remember" Miss Pankhurst went
m that when, in 1906, we began TO 80 10
politjcal meetings and question the speak
avg and were thrown out OF those meet
,,ys Se were told that We had ruined the
cause.
.Tt has been so with every successive
move of the riNtants. our deputations 10
Parliament, our deronstrauons-alway II
WAS said. Now the movement is extinct
And the last disorder, as II is called
well dare say many Of you are thinking
that was wrong. was a terrible mistake.
Byt II II has alienated our friends how
was II that only the other day great
meeting was held IN London and $4,000
raised for the militant suffragists?
s we have broken a few windows in
snriyste property. ! tell you that you VINO
mt glass windows before justice and human
merry look TO the outside OF the vessel,
while the inside Is foul
"Put a New Soul in Women"
I'VE have chosen the better part. even
II il means Imprisonment fo- US, or death.
We have put a new soul in women. We
have brought the suffrage question - the
fore. and YOU know very well that when
the suffragists are discussed IN the House
of Commons IL is the militants at wno.n
they point
we have chosen, in this last demonstrs-
ton. 70 break few private windows. be-
cause breaking government windows
reused nobody-the damage vas borne by
the taxpayers, IN such large numbers that
none felt t. We decided that the cleo
torate must he MADE 10 realize the I'M
portence OF the nDerty OF "OIicA' oHu eO
we broke a few Of their windows. be
cause window breaking is an English haoit7
frequently resorted to by men.
"Why, not long ago IN the town OF VIM
chester some guns were moved from one
hill 10 another by the authorities; the men
Of the town OBJECTED, and they broke a
number OF windows. They were not pun
ished; but the guns were moved back
III we had begun breaking windows long
ago" cried the speaker, and II we had
done II in the careless. casual way men old
II. we'd have had the vote by now"
Miss Pankhurst prophesied complete VIC
tory for the sutfragists in England.
We are bound TO win" she said. III one
leader is taken. another will rise. Thou
sands of women are ready TO strive-yes. to
die. II need be, as women have died from
injuries received in our demonstrations for
the movement, which began with my
mother and sisters and twelve or fourteen
working women in 1895, az which time tho
suffrage cause was practically dead in my
country but has now reached vast proper
tcAs"