Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
British Ministers Fear That Suf-
fragettes Will Take Lives to
Get Right of Franchise.
AMERICAN GETS IN TROUBLE
Humorist Suggests Sending Mad
Women to St. HeIena-Cabi-
net Takes Idea Seriously,


LONDON, June Elbow shall
Great Britain deal with the militant
suffragettes? That is the question
that is perpleving Premier Asquith
Home Secretary McKenna, the Rt
Hon. David Lloyd George, Chancel-
Tor of the EXchequer and innumer-
able other right honorables" who
occupy positions of public RESPONSE
bility There is another little ques-
ton worrying them, too, although
they aren't quick to admit it. The
question is: What next?
That is just it. What will be the
next move by the militants? At just
what moment may the Right Honor
able Home Secretary expect to be
kidnapped?
just when may the Right Honor
able Mr.. Asquith expect to receive a
very hard and well directed brick in
the back of his neck or some other
vulnerable spot? At what unexpect-
ed moment may his majesty's Chan
Cellor of the EXChequer, the Right
Honorable David Lloyd George, find
himself surrounded by a mob of the
mad women" as the English call
them, clamoring for his life or clam
orins for the ballot, or both?
Situation Becomes Tense.
The situation is becoming tense. In
fact it is becoming tenser every mo-
Hf n T1r is a X
soon. and as evidence Of the we'll
foundedness of that belief, English
men point to the sacrifice of Emily
Davidson, the militant who gave her
life to ruin Derby Day
Derby Day, it may be mentioned,
is sacred with Englishmen. Deucedly
bad form, don't y know, for a bally
suffragette to seize the Kings horse.
Er-rather extreme, one might call
it. One wouldn't mind a bit of spool
ing y'know, but when they interfere
with the spectacle of Derby Day, by
jove. it's going a bit too far They
jolly well deserve to be taken in Gus
tody and be fed with a bally pipe
down their Threats. This thing real
~ must be stopped yknow.
An American journalist on visit
to London suggested that the suffra-
gette leaders, that is, the militant
ones, for Englishmen don't mind the
nOn-militants at all, be sent to st.
Helena, where Emperor Napoleon
spent a number of his days in seclu-
sion After making the suggestion
Gt was one of those deucedly COM
pick American jokes, y'knoW) the
American journalist had to move
quickly. The militants swore to get
him." for Home Secretary Mckenna
had appeared to take to the idea, and
until he learned it had been offered in
a spirit of jest, considered It seriously.
Case Of Christabe.
An English writer on a prominent
magazine asserts that if Christabel
Pankhurst were French she would be
either in prison or in the Argentine
Republic for the French authorities
would certainly not have considered
her case with kid gloves. If Christa-
bel were French went on this writer
in an effort to tell what the French
would do with the militants, the au-
thorities would ask for her eXtradi-
ton on the ground that she'had in
cited to various breakages of the law,
to arson and other attacks upon
property which are no less criminal
than picking a pocket or stealing the
silver when the buffers back is
turned. There would be no question
Of an elegantly named hunger strike
This same writer concludes with
the illuminating statement that the
English are too sentimental toward
these women, meaning the militants
Christabel in prison in France would
remain in prison and continue to alb
sorb food and by no such gentle
method as "fOrcible feeding as
known in England.