New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-24

,h.t mos o,ive I'm me was huge lump III
nv throat. Suddenly a policeman Graopeu
me by the throat, pushing my heao oach
tiII thought my back was broken ana
then 7 came TO life. and the lump IN my
throat disappeared, and I became hu-
man being. determined TO do my pest 10
get to the House of Commons 10 dehia"'
Justice for women. foilceI''"
snatched our banners and Drohe t"oH'
over our backs / was footballed from one
policeman TO another. | saw gray
haired woman (Mrs. Cobden-Sahdersoip
holding on to the ratings and policeman
thumping her on the back. Turhihs'
saw a policeman with his fingers fastened
round Mrs. Pankhurst's throat. sippcu
nv fingers in his duty band and heid OH
for all | was worth. lie let go Oh Nj -
ponkburst and turned his undivided at
tentlon to making a corkscrew OF my arm
until he had me on my knees. ana the"
no kicked me and then took me into Gus
,odv Then an amusing thing happened
A friend has dubbed me Lady Betty from
Across the Water and when she saw ne
being dragged down the street she cai'e"
ont Bravo. Lady Betty. and so WAS
released at the next corner and told 10 so
home Snobbery, but joke on theh''
came off with two dslocated
toes. a badly sprained wrist ana ti'ce
snrained fingers, but not a spralned con-
science"
Tbere was n very general belief that the
o,,co had acted under instructions from
rho Home Secretary Winston ChUrch'i''
More than a hundred witnesses o"ereu ~
testify TO the outrages, and MT. Churc"l'i
uas urged 10 order an investigation he
rofueed After this sort of brutality hau
oopo an for years and nobody had Deeh
punished for II. is it any wohder 'na' "
section Of the women eNchahseu tno"
mild methods for violent ones MS
Elizabeth Freeman. I'm the letter Ju9t
o,oted. saws that one of the women h"'
In this affair had always been strongly
opposed to mlitancy. Like many ol '"'
other women. she was handled by the po-
lice not only with great barparlty ou'
u,,,b ecandalous indecency. Miss Freeman
adds: -,
"r,bte ro,nan was the first TO return 10
Caxton Hall for stones to break wihdo"'
(of government Offices. saying tha' d. "
mother OF woman her body was sa'i'''
and she could not allow herself ana o'''',
women to be exposed to sucn treat"'e"'
hy noI,cemen under the control OF the
Home Office. She is serving two rnohths
sentence for breaking window sho"''o
clearly that q womans body does ilo'
co,p. for as much as a pane OF eldo9'
Then they tell us to be mothers 10 pear
more children: yet when we want '""'
s,,obol which helps us TO make laws 10
govern children. and go to ask for IT, ''''
body which Is supposed TO be Tor the pe"i
ing of children is handled In snaS"S
manner. and some OF the women '"'
boen injured I'm a way that may make It
irrpossible to bear that precious putueh'
Opponents of equal rights are trying 10
gloss over the mob violence no" oeihs
committed against women IL England ."
the ground that these things are re-
nriseIs" But such things had been Soi'ls
., for voars before the women began 10
do them. II was not the suffragettes VINO
SET the example OF violence. However
much We may regret that theS
have followed IL. let us never IoTseI '''d'
the anti-sunragists struck the hrst DO"
a long and cowardly series OF blows. Inc
same spirit shown by the hoohgahs ~
Washington has been rampant anlohs '"'
hoollgans in England for long tii'e
back. and has had the connivance OF the
authorities-in some cases their ehcour-
agement; while here everybody implicated
IN the misbehavior at Washington IS NY
ing 10 crawl into hole and draw the hole
in after him.
Give us American men. every urle,
ALICE STONE BLAChW ELLA
Dorchester. Mass. March -. 1913.