Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-04-03
FOREIGN NEWS NOTES

attached themselves to the constitu-
tional organizations.
A number Of American women who
have associated themselves with the
militant movement have jail records
as long as the most ardent Of their
English sisters, but the same enthusi-
asm which led them to smash windows
and disturb the peace of cabinet min
listers has now been enlisted at the
suffrage battlefront in the United
States.
This detection is resented by some
Of the officials of the Women's Social
and Political union, who declared that
there should DE no national boundaries
in the cause and that, once having
thrown in their lot with the English
militants, they should stay in the fore
front OF the battle until parliament
capitulates. They also complain of
the inactivity Of American women per
manently residing in London, and de-
clare that their attitude is selfish. In
answer TO this, a prominent member
Of the American Women's society stat
ed that her compatriots had no more
business to NEEDLE in the English suf-
frage movement than an American
man would have to mix actively in
politics here.
The latest American volunteer to the
fighting forces of the w. S. p. L, Miss
zelie Emerson, Of Michigan, proved
herself a strenuous for the brief time
she remained at liberty. She is now,
however, a guest of his majesty in
Holloway jail, where she has Just been
removed to the second division after
undergoing a hhnger strike as a pro
test against a sentence of hard labor
for window smashing. Accompanied
by Miss Sylvia Pankhurst and George
Lansbury, Jr., son of the former mem
Der Of parliament who resigned his
seat TO contest Bow and Bromley on
the issue of equal suffrage, Miss Emer-
son made a spectacular raid through
that slum district. The raid took both
the inhabitants and authorities BY sur
prise, for hitherto the militants have
confined their window smashing TO the
fashionable shopping and office dis
tricts, and it was not until the smash
ers had destroyed much glass that they
were arrested. The Offices Of the Lib
eral association Of Bow and Bromley
suffered severely from the raid, and
thereby were the suffragets revenged
for the failure Of the liberal party TO
fight for LansbUry in his contest TO re-
gain his seat as a champion Of SUI
frage. The sentence Of hard labor on
the raiders was denounced by their
supporters as vindictive and they at
once went on hunger strike, the result
Of which has been their removal TO
the second division.
One Of the most active fighters IN
the W. s. P. L. ranks Is Miss Amy
Maud Hicks, formerly a professor al
Bryn Mawr Her record OF previous
convictions reads like that Of a New
York burglar. She is exceedingly proud
Of this record, which is spread over a
page OF the new who's Who" OF wo-
mans suffrage Miss Hicks is now so
well known to the police that she can
not appear on the street without meet
ing some policeman who has had the
pleasure Of accompanying her to a po-
lice station. No one woman IN the
militant army has done more for the
glaciers trade than Miss Hicks.
Until her return 10 the United States
where she has gone 10 become chair
man Of the congressional committee
for woman's suffrage. Miss Alice Paul.
a doctor Of philosophy Of the Univer-
sity OF Pennsylvania, was q close rival
of Miss Hicks for the distinction Of
serving the longest time in Jail. Miss