New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-12
HOPES KING MAKES
ASQUITH A PEER
LanSbury Tells Suffragists
Here That Is Easiest Way
to Get Rid of Him.
BELIEVES WOMEN
WILL WIN VOTE THEN
Premier May Get the Honor When
Parliament Ends in 1915,
lie Asserts.

George Lansbury. the only member of
Parliament who has the distinction Of
having suffered imprisonment and hunger
for the cause" is here with a novel
scheme for getting rid OF Asquith and so
ending the opposition to the woman suf-
fraSc bill
Just make him peer said Mr. Laus-
bury Yesterday at the Hotel Earle at
isn't necessary TO Kill tho man. OF course.
the women will never get the vote while
/ he Is i'm tho way. and so some OF them
think they must set him out of the way
! by killing him. Bat il they have patience
his majesty the King will make a peer
Of him. and that will be just as bad.
That's tho way TO fix a man so that he
can't mako any more trouble
Certainly. there is ~umor that he is
20 he made a peer, as soon as this Par
Lament ends. That viii Ice i'm 1915. The
Suffragists would do al they could TO help
the excellent arrangement No they
wouldn't crudge him the honor. II isn't
an honor YOU sec"
we have about given up hope Of get
ting anything from this government as it
stands Until the Home Rule Bill is
passed the Liberia party will do nothing
10 jco2ardzc its solidarity. and Asquith
would resign. OF course the minute his
Cabinet tried TO force a suffrage meas
urc"
Accompany Ing hlr. I.ansbury is CHEEKY
little rosy-cheeKcd woman who is a living
demonstration of the injustice Of the
"a tsfslI Lon strs.Fy
family can go to prison. but she must
stay At home and take care OF the chill
drcu. They don't all 20 at once. how
ever. II fl were possible for them all to
Get arrested together. they could shut up
the house and give mother a regular va
cation, but the government is on watch
against that
There arc never more than two Iaus-
burys i'm Holloway at once. The family
don know, to be sure, just which brother
and sister they viii find around the
hearth when they return home at night.
or 1t may be fathers genial face that is
missing
II Mrs. l.ansbury were the size OF her
Youngest daughter. even she might have
chance 10 help IN The fight now and
then; but no such luck for downtroddcn
woman. Il is Nellie who has the privilege
always OF coming home bareheadcd after
giving her hat and cloak TO Sylvia Pauk-
hurst to make her escape from the police
Mrs I.ansbury can't even have the
pleasure Of feeding her family the fattyd
calf beforr they start their prison life. 1t
was Mr.. LanSbury who discovered tn"
trick Of beating the hunger strike. Go 10
rrison fasting. he said and it won't be
so long before youll collapse and they'll
have to let YOU out. lie took neither food
nor water for two days before he went
downtown TO get himself arrested, 50 1t
was only three before he had to he re-
leased
Mr. Lausbury has come TO America 10
talk not only about suffrage In England
but about industrial and economic cOndi-
lions. lis first lecture viii be tomorrow
morning at the hudson Theatre lie Will
explain TO any one who asks that it was
because the Labor party refused TO de
mand equal suffrage that he resigned
from Parliament.
When the Liberals introduced the man
hood suffrage bill which nowhere in
Guided women in its provisions, Lansbury
demanded Of the Labor leaders that they
come 10 the wOmen's assistance. When
they refused he told them he was no
longer with them lie IL going TO stand
for reelection in 1915 however. and he
believes tht women will help him.