The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-04-27
When the Sufragette Cause
Is Won, She Will Lose
Her Occupation
QUITE PROFITABLE
UP TO THE PRESENT
Starts Without Means of Sup
port, But Now Takes
Of $4,000 at a
Single Meeting

LONDON, April 26.--Truth devotes
one Of its series of articles on minor .
statesmen" this week TO Mrs EN- /
incline Pankhurst and her daughters, |
Christabel and Silvia 1t suggests /
that these three are more Influenced |
by love of notoriety and money than
a belief in the Cause"
Truth recalls the fact that when |
Or. Plank hurst died the family was
in poor circumstances. Mrs Pank- I
hurst at first secured a position in |
the office of the registrar Of births
and deaths. Later on she became a
professional agitator. according to
Truth. and after this she gradually
emerged from the obscuritv of Man /
chester and blossomed forth in Ira I
falgar square as a doWager. She (
was arrayed like duchess and her
daughters were dressed like debu- /.
tautcs."
Then. according to Truth there F.
followed her alliance with the at
that time wealthy Mr.. and Mrs. Peth-
lex Lawrence. This agreement was
made for the purpose Of placing the
/ votes for women crusade on a bust /
ness footing. The only problem which
remained was as TO how 70 keep the
comedy going.
Bear" the Market
Truth then develops a metaphor
from stock exchange slang 1t points
out that the trouble with the Pank-
bursts at that time was .Jhe existence
OF cid standing, respectable firms Of
jobbers and dealers ike Mrs Faw-
cett. Lady Bamford Black and Lady
Betty Balfour. The fear of the
Pankhursts was that a susceptible
cabinet would be wheedlei into taxi
. I'M ha 81, !
market and drive the new firm to the
pavement. The Pankhurst group
therefore proceeded to bear the stock
with an ingenuity which it il tmpos-
slble not to admire"
The writer then shows how the
( Pankhurst party killed one after an
other every chance the suffragists ever
had since 1906 of attaining their OBJ
jeCt, for. once their goal was attained,
their occupation and fame would be
gone
! Sir Edward Grey. "the most honest
sufTagist" in the cabinet, was attack
ed first. Then Premier Campbell
Bannerman, who wanted to give the
women the vote, and he was attacked.
When he died he was succeeded by
Premier Asquith, an anti -suffragist.
but he followed the principles of
Campbell Bannerman and the house
Of commons was on the point Of Civ
ing an overwhelming division in IA
ver of suffrage when the militants in
the ladies' gallery broke into an up
roar and the speaker in disgust re-
fused to order closure. and so the
measure was talked TO death"
Attack Churchill and George.
Then. according TO Truth, Winston
\ Churchill, the first lord of the adj
miralty who had been wooed to the
cause by his charming wife was
promptly pursued to Dundee" 1t
r may he recalled that on this occa-
sion Mr.. Churchufs meeting were not
only interrupted but that he was per
sonaliy assaulted by a woman with a
dog whip
Then LIoyd~George. the chancellor
of the exChequer. took up the crusade
in behalf Of the women 1t is need
less to recount, says Truth, how the
Pankhurstites treated him. going
. from a physical assault to blowing up
house which they thought he owned
The writer continues: Then when
the suffrage depended on the Irish
Nationalist vote the women hurled
? Ratchet at John Redmond. the irish
leader. and made an attempt to burn
Dublin theater"
Referring 10 the smashing OF win
dows In London shops and the pillar
post box OutraEes the writer says.
Last but not least was the incen-
diarism which was calculated and
avowed to be visited upon churches,
racetrack stands and golf greens.
Particular attention was paid 10
, Hampstead. q garden suburb. where
! most OF the suffragists reside"
Gets the Cash.
Mrs. Pankhurst, according to Truth,
= thus set herself up as a bear on the
suffrage movement. and has done it
= with tho net result that sT0,0 was
; paid into her war chest at a single
Albert Hall meeting, and the eau
Gus was utterly wrecked In the house
of commons.
The article concludes by saying that
Mrs. Pankhurst cannot be understood
without recognizing the fact that what
she wants Is not victory over men.
but over Mrs. Fawcett. an anti-mtli-
, tant constitutional suffragtst Mrs.
Pethick Lawrence was dismissed like
, housemaid as soon as the business
had been sufficiently established 70
be independent OF her Mrs. Despard,
: the head OF the Women's Ere .dom
league, suffragist but anti militant
} organization, also got the cold shout
der. Anyone who joins the Women's
Social and Political union must sub
NIT to the Judgment Of an absolutely
, Pankhurst clique, There is no com
mlttee to examine into qualifications
{ for mem bership or any effective voice
/ such power is cheaply purchased by
an occasional rest cure at a we'll
| managed prison hospital Mrs. Pank-
hurst was so carefully treated during
her recent holiday that In an out
burst over her superintendent health
she tore up her license" to leave un-
i til she. had recovered, into little bits
of fragments, as If the license" was
, something of which she had a hor-
{ row. She calls it a principle. Others
may suspect that it is pride and push
, fulness with a finger on the purse
strings.
OF DANIEL c SPENDS