New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-01-06
mrs. PANKHURST SPEAKS
Says Men Show Most Courtesy
Where Women Are Voters.
TELLS OF WESTERN TRAVEL
Declares to Carnegie Hall Audi
ence Vote Can Be Won at the
Legislative Moment.

Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the militant
English suffrage leader, who has just been
making tour OF the western part Of this
country, told a huge audience at Carnegie
Hall last night that never had she seen
such courtesy from men to women as in
the states where women vote.
Men are much more courteous 10 women
In those states than they are in the
crowded English cities" she said why.
one day l was In motor car driven by
woman voter, and the traffic officer stopped
us at the corner that another car, having
the right of way. might pass. And the
man who was driving that car was 80 po-
litely unwilling to go in front OF the
woman voter that It required the utmost
authority Of the policeman TO make him
do 80. II there are any anti-suffrage gen
tlemen in this audience who are afraid that
that mysterious thing courtesy. will dis
appear when women get the vote. / hope
this incident will reassure them"
But Mrs Pankhurst doesn't conclude from
her Western observations that women lack
the power to enforce their will-courtesy
| or no courtesy
Those anti-suffragists who argue their
cause by insisting that women couldn't
maintain the peace-and therefore shouldn
| vote-ought to meet girl met in West
I ern city," she said. She was slip or
a girl--perhaps twenty-three years old-and
/ was rather startled when she mentioned
to me casually that she had just sent
man to the police station.
" Did he go?' | asked her.
"'Oh, yes, she said, I showed him my
| police badge, and he went right along.
There was that man, going meekly 10
the police station and giving himself into
custody because this girl had showed him
| her badge as factory inspector; and yet
they say women couldn't enforce laws or
maintain peace!'
She had met women deputy inspectors In
! the West, she said. and women policemen.
And as for women voters in general,
| she added. Il wish every one in this audi
ence could visit those states and see what
an air of dignity and security 1t gives
those women to possess the right Of suf-
| frage."
Mrs. Pankhurst strongly urged her hear
ers those who believed in woman suf-
frage. to put aside every other interest, to
work for no other cause, until this cause
was won
"As an expert in getting votes for wom-
en-" she said, Il assure you that II Amer
| lean women Of energy will put aside every
other consideration, the vote, in every
state I have visited can be won at the
earliest possible legislative moment In
three Of the states II can be won this
year. And I hope and trust that every
woman in this hall will put aside every
other cause, every philanthropy, work for
nothing else, until that which will dignity
and strengthen every other interest is in
the grasp Of women"
The latter part of Mrs. Pankhurst's ad-
dress touched on the militant methods OF
| her followers In England, which, she said,
were not theirs by choice.
There isn't a militant suffragist," she
said, who would not prefer constitutional
methodist we were allowed them. Mill
tant methods are, no doubt clumsy, but
clumsy as they are, they have forced the
| question of woman suffrage into the fore
front Of politics and upon the attention OF
the civilized world"
Mrs Pankhurst described Mr. Lloyd
Georges offer of a woman suffrage amend
| neDI 10 the HldHHOOu SulIIdSO blli
degradat ton to women"
we women do not want TO creep in at
| the back door. even II the door is opened
wide enough" she declared. What we de-
! mand, what I am going back TO fight for.
is suffrage on equal terms with men, Lloyd
George, we know, means nothing but
| treachery."
Mrs. Pankhurst sails for England to-day
on the Minneapolis.
Every box and every seat in Carnegie
Hall was filled last night. In Mrs. o. H. r.
Belmont's box with her were Nine. Lillian
Nordica and Miss Inez Milholland. Repre-
sentatives Of various suffrage societies sat
on the stage, and all brought resolutions of
goodwill TO Mrs. Pankhurst and the Eng
lish militants. Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch
presided.
At the close Of the meeting nearly $4,000
was collected for Mrs. Pankhurst