New-York tribune., 1912-01-11
DEFEND SUFFRAGETTES
Women Here Wanr 10 Know
What Mrs. J0nSon Meant.
CALL LIBERALS "MANCHUS"
Declare 1t Is Absurd to Suppose
That Nobody Is Fighting the
Militant Workers.

''Iyho arc tho MauChus In tho suffrage
war Of England Why. Mr. Asquith ard
the Liberal government"
This Is vn1t Miss Eleanor Rrsnuau.
daughter OF Or. John Winters Branuau.
who spent last year doing militant suffrage
work u London. has 10 Say 20 Mrs Ashton
Jonsou's remarks on tla point iu hor
lecture before tho League t.- Political I'd
ucstion at the Berkeley Theatre on Mon
day There are other gUTraEists IN New
York who want 10 know what Mrs Jon
son meant by laughing at ;no mihtauts for
"Hksning themselves 20 jhc Chinese dCht-
ine the ManChus." and by iutImatiuE that
there were no ManChus I'M England. and hy
saylng that the miltants We're fighting lots
of people. but nobody was fehting them
The assertion that nobody is nEhtiuE
rnF -Sufrragists IS picturesque" said Mrs
'Bow1nsn Wells, an English sufraCist and
forganizer for the Womau'e Freedom
League of London. but who Is I'm America
Just now. Rather AN illogical thing 10
say. when more than ore Thousand women
have suffered iu prison for suffrage. Who
tut us there? Somebody must have been
fighting Us when that was doro. Why, the
>hcsd of tho London Hospital has comment
ed openly on the dreadful wav suffragists
have been treated by what Mrs. Jonson
calls the dear London boobies.
"T know there is theory that the Lon
don police are polite, Eloyed estures
4 but I've seen them act hrutaIly. Not that
81 blaine tie police force for that. these
fcf6cers were acting under r;reSs-and un-
der orders
When Mrs Jonson says that reforms
utterly absurd There new or has been a
real reform in which. at some stage. yio-
lence has not been done. What good
would it do for me to Sit quietly in my
room and converse with the persons who
come to see me about suffrage and how 7
wanted IT.? II would take a long time 70
reach the governments ears in that way
fancy
NO, getting ont and doInS something
energetic is what has brought the suftra-
eists cause to tho forefront I'm England
Mrs. Jonson is liberal and an
I sdorer Of Asquith And II is Asquith
Who makes democracy a laughing stock IN
England. grant De is honest lie
doesn't believe that England wants wc-
man suffra gc-fsnCy, Convince me that
the women want it, he told me once and
we got up some tremendous suffrage mass
meetings; but was he convinced? 10
They merely came to soc what was going
on. he said"
Miss Elizabeth freeman. Of Brooklyn,
who worked four wears with Mrs Pauk-
hurst in England. said that Mrs Jouson
was away of" IN declaring that tho mill
tant leaders followers were dceertiug.
If that is So" said Mis- freeman.
why was the fair bc.d by the. Woman
Social and Political Union two weeks
after the last dcpuJation so sucCcS~iulr
The union made $4,000 at that fair"
Miss Freeman was decidedly annoyed al
Mrs. JOnson's remarks about sufragists
and stone-throwing.
THE idea of saving we'd bc 50 silly as 10
toll tho stone, Little stone, don't hurt any
body. she said. We're not exactly idiots.
But stone-throWins has done little harm
hurt nobody-bccauso when We put stone
through d window We were careful 10 So
lcct time when there was nobody behind
that window.
Mrs. Jouson must be an anti. II she
isn't, why does she express such admira-
tion for those nine conscientious members
az the Cabinet VINO were duJi-suilrsgisls .
She is wrong in her numbers. by the way.
There arc not nine auts I'm tho Cabinet.
There are sixteen mon in the Cabinet, and
6 majority of these are for woman suffrage.
Asquth, who is pure obstnacy. is forcing
his personal opinions on tho country when
what he is paiG for-and the women help
pay his salary-is 10 bacn mp public opinion
and public opinion is for suffrage for
women.
Mrs. Jonson pyctcnds TO say that We Do
pot suffrage through the proposed amond-
r1cut 20 the manhood suffrage bill What
Will happen VIII bc what happened 10 tho
woman suffrage amendment TO the bin Civ
ing tho vote 10 agricultural labore-s IN 1Ssj.
The bin passed, the amondmont was lost
Absolutely untrue" utterly absurd.
mere pifc," are some Of the things tho
sufragists have 10 say about Mrs. Jouspn
statement that nobody wanted the coucil-
iation bill except tho Paukhurst society
"On the coutrary." said Miss BrannaH.
"thc Womau's Social and Political Union
was rather unwilling 10 accept the bill, b"-
cause il was narrow in it's provisions Hut
they said: Wei. the other societies aD-
prove il. 50 We will They and the other
suffrage organizations agreed upon 1t be-
cause il seemed possible thlnS 10 get.
though it wasn't what they wanted
There wasn't a suffrage society u Eng
land that didn't support the Cancellation
hin. said lIrs. Wells. we agreed that It
was a tangible proposition
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