The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-12-26
MILITANT. %SAFFRAGETS
MAY BECOME OUTLAWS
English Lawyer Says They Dc
Not Deserve Protection Of
the Government.

!, London, Dec. 23.-"Make them out
laws. This is the severe suggestion
OIL a London lawyer to the authorities
VINO are at their wits ends in dealing
with the militant suffragets.
AS the women will not obey man
made laws" argues the barrister, they
nave no right to the protection of those
laws.
Whlie this newest proposition is not
likely to receive general approval, it
is admitted that some way must be
found to punish women violators of
the law without making them martyrs
to The Cause" When they were ar
rested wholesale and committed to
prison for breaking windows, attempt
ing to set fire to a Dublin theater
and for other %offenses. they escaped
by means of the hunger strike. None
has been caught al setting fires and
pouring ink and other substances into
letter boxes, but Elsie Howey, who
mas been sentenced to two months
Imprisonment for turning in false fire
alarms, the latest device Of the mill
tants to influence men to give them
the vote. probably will become q
hunger striker.
Many plans, including tina of letting
them starve in prison if they refuse
FOOD, have been recommended to the
government. but none has thus far
met with acceptance. The lawyer
quoted claims to have legal authority
for his suggestion that the law break
ers be declared outlaws, with all that
outlaWry signifies-ignored by the law,
deprived OF police protection n the
rest. II this appears too radical. he
would have them declared undesir-
ables, which would place it within the
power OF any magistrate to order their
removal beyond the shores of the
United Kingdom. sa&pl
The British naval authorities haye
been considerably perturbed of late
over the way in which minor secrets
OF British ships nave been reaching
foreign powers, n particularly Ger
many, the spies from which country,
II Is asserted, are always prepared
with the biggest prices for anything
pertaining to naval matters.
mere nave been several prosecutions
or civilians charged with communicate
ing these secrets to foreign powers,
and one or two men under suspicion
have been dropped from the navy.
More Importance is attached to the
recent arrest of George c.. Parrott. an
of the navy, one of the
class of petty officers who, under re-
cent regulations are in line for promo
ton to the commissioned ranks.
Parrot, it was found, while doing
duty at the school of gunnery, made
trips to ostend. where, according to
evidence glven against him, he was
met by a foreigner, with whom he
spent the evening, returning to Eng.
land he same night. AS it is against
the regulations for a b~luejacket OF
a petty officer to leave England with.
out leave, PARROTS name was removed
from the navy list, and some months
later the police having discovered that
he received letters from the continent
with money enclosed, under an as.
sumed name. he was arrested.
1t was also found that PARROT had
deposited considerable sums of money
at his bank. One of the points of evi'
dence against the prisoner is that the
bank notes he received had5on one oc.
casion or another been sent to Ger
many. This evidence was made pos.
sible by the fact that at all banks
a memorandum is made Of the num-
ters of Bank of England notes in the
banks possession, and the disposition
made of them. In this case two OF
the notes had been paid out to trav.
elers, who had changed them in Ger.
many.