The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-07
Suffragettes' "Reign of Ter.
ror" Has Many Panic
Stricken
THE TAXPAYERS
ARE DISGUSTED
Blame Militants and Spine
less Government Equal
ly for the Outrages

London, April 7.--Rioting at the suf.
fragist meeting in Hyde Park as regu.
lar Sunday afternoon diversion was re-
peated yesterday. The crowd of $4,000
persons was distinctly hostile and only a
big force of police prevented rough
handling OF the women.
Two sufTragettes talked for half an
hour, but were unable to make them
selves heard because of the uproar, made
by horns and hooting.
Missiles of various kinds were thrown
and Miss Braekenbury was struck in the
face. Mounted police escorted the wom-
en- away and foot police kept the crowd
from following There were similar dis
turbances at Wimbledon Common, where
Annie Kenney spoke.
Within twentyfour hours after Mrs.
Emmelne Pankhurst was sentenced to
three years penal servitude for instigat-
ing destruction OF property by the MILF
tant suffragettes the campaign of re-
prisal was begun. Within those twenty.
four hours, in addition to sporadic win.
dow breaking, postal box Outrages and
similar small crimes now scarcely noticed
unless on large scale, country house
was burned, a railway station was blown
up, train was wrecked and valuable
pictures were damaged in great pro-
vincial art gallery.
A racecourse was burned Saturday at
Ayr, Scotland, and two women were ar
rested while attempting to set fire to
another. As things are now, perpetrators,
if caught, will never pay the penalty.
just as it is assumed that Mrs. Pank-
hurst will be among her friends again
within few days.
1t is not eXaggeration to say that
species of panic prevails throughout the
country wherever there is property open
to attack. From royal palaces to railway
depots, from priceless art collections to
empty houses, everything is under
special gourd against handful of wonl-
en-, who laugh in the face Of the law
with practical impunity. The govern
ment looks on helpless and openly con-
Tossing that the women, if sufficiently
will be beyond the govern
ment's power to deal with them.
WEAKNESS, irritation and disgust fill
The publuc mind afainst both the women
md the government. If real anger is
added to this something might be done,
out hitherto anger seems mainly to have
been confined to that part of the public
whose effective demonstration is re-
strained by the police, With one portion
IF the public irritated and disguised and
he other actively angry and aroused
here will be danger, when the opportu
iity occurs, of scenes a disgraceful as
he causes of them are discreditable.
On every hand now the government is
warned that such state OF affairs j.
likely to send the country speedily back
o the stage where private vengence anil
ynch law will take the place of the law
curtis and the prisons" as the Pail Mall
iazette puts it. Public opinion is grow
ng more hostile to the women daily, as
is more generally believed that the
utrages are the work of little band OF
otoriety seeking, hysterical or mis-
uided females, whose cunning and
not unmixed with coward
,e, are merely the result of their discov
nv that their sex and weakness are able
0 paralyze the weak and harassed gov
rnment when it is faced with the ques
ion of furnishing them.