New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-23

awaken the interest OF others who never
have been interested before. When they
read that women have gone to prison for
suffrage they will say to themselves, What
is all this about anyway? and then they'll
come to our next meeting. The longer the
suffragsts stay in prison the greater pub
lie sympathy will be"
The only suffragst in New York who DID
not express the feeling that the cause
would profit from this incident was Mrs.
John Winters Brannan. She looked really
angry when she heard the news, but she is
Mrs. Pankhursts personal friend, has en-
tertained her in her own home. and was
probably thinking. when she looked so
vexed. of how much suffering was in store
for her All she would say, however, was:
II shall watch with interest to see how
the government disposes of Sir Edward
Carson and Lord Robert Cecil. who have
been melting the men of Ulster County TO
rebel in the matter OF Home Rule. What
they have said and done is far and away
more lawess than anything the suffragists
did. They even provided sixty thousand
stand OF arms, ! understand. II melting
worse than votes for women and breaking
few wlndows-if these men don't receive
far heavier penalty--we women will want
TO know why. The government will reap
It's deserts
THE whole world ought to rise up, says
Miss Marion Tilden Burritt, leader Of the
18th Assembly District of the woman
Suffrage party and one Of the young and
frr on
| why, college boys IN one Of their riots do
more damage than the suffragettes did
yet they aren't punished.
Miss Elizabeth Freeman. who has been
in a London prison herself Tor participating
in suffrage demonstrations, was extremely
indignant
ITS Infamous, that's what ii is she
cried Look at the way they treated Tom
Mann the leader, who melted the coal
strike. Wasn't that a worse offence than
that of the Pankhursts? Well, he was let
out on 5000 bail. The suffragists had TO
have $1,000. He was sentenced 10 six
months, and this was committed to two
months The suffragists are sentenced 10
nine months. II their sentence If not COM
rnuted in the same way theren be another
| raid big one. tso, maybe against the
prison, maybe against Parliament Any
way-the women will not allow those people
to stay in prison for nine months. I'll
| swear to that
| GU see the governments scheme is 10
| cripple the movement by removing the
| brains Of IT, The government leaders think
| II they have Mrs Pankhurst and the Law
rences safely out of the way the women
| will be helpless. But they haven't got
Chrlstabel, Besides, all the brains Of the
cause aren't I'm the Pankhurst family any
| vay The government made that mistake
| once before and got Christabel and her
mother both I'm prison at the same time.
| II didn't work. though. Things went on
| inst the same as ever Both times when
| Mrs PankhurSt has been in this country
| the government has taken occasion TO pro-
woke the women, thinking to find them
| Ieaderlcss. but at each juncture the women
have risen up and worked havoc. The only
way to get rid of suffrage demonstrations
is to give the women the vote and then
they'll keep still The more the government
crowds them, the more militant they viii
be"
Miss Mary Shaw, the suffrage actress,
was frankly disappointed
Il hoped Mrs. Pankhurst would get sucn
terrible sentence that everybody would
get excited" she said. AS il is. nine
months is a compromise. When you see
some one really suffering for cause YOU
want TO plunge right in and help. Mrs.
Pankhurst has advanced the cause fifty
years by her policy of attracting attention
TO il. Before she went 10 prison We used
70 he suffragists, but we'd whisper ii be
hind our hands. and wouldn't dare tell any
one. Now, we're real sassy about IT. We
shout il from the housetops and are proud
of ourselves.
PERSONALLY you couldn't hire me to Iet
into a row with the police and that kind
of thing you know. But l admire Mrs
Pankhurst tremendously. ! think she is
one OF the greatest living women. II she
thinks il is wise to adopt militant methods,
after trying argument for forty years, we
must not criticise her. When women are
| earnest enough and fearless enough de-
| uberately TO suffer imprisonment for what
| they believe, we cannot but admire them.
and II does any cause good TO have It's
cbamnions come out boldly and startlc
neople into thinking about IT.
onlv Mrs Pcarce Bailey, president of
uo EouaI Franchise Society, was on the
| eide NJ the court which condemned Mrs.
| Pankhurst.
"Tbev were really guilty, weren't they?'
she said.
"Jt is n serious thing to engage in a
| oorsniracv. / cannot see but what they
deeerved their sentence. or course, there
"a possibility that the government will
succeed only in making martyrs Of them
| that the common brook trout will develop
| into angel fishes.
, do not believe this will happen, how
over The government must have thought
II all over very carefully and. understand
ing the situation better than we possibly
can, feels sure that IT has the sympathy
! of the English people behind It, The Eng