The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-19
TELLS REASON
FOR HER VISIT
Noted Suffragette-Author Writes
Her Interview Had With
Mrs. Pankhurst.
BY RHETA CIIILDE DORR,
Noted SuTrnEcttc and Author OF "IShat
Eighty Million Women Want"

|
Eighty Million Women Want"
New York, October 1S.-"I suppose
you know that the antiwomen suffrn-
gsts have accused YOU OF coming to
the United States In order to stir Amer
lean women to violence and disorder
Would you mind giving a plain state
ment of the object of your visit? !
asked Mrs. Pankhurst
II certainly have no idea of melting
violence In American women Fortu-
nately for them, they have no need
TO resort to violence. Their suffrage
| movement seems to be proceeding sue.
cessfully along orderly, constitutional
lines.
I'm England the situation is, unhap-
PLY, quite different.
object of Her Visit.
Tho object of my visit is two-fold.
In the first place, / want TO bring the
militant movement up-to date. think
| the majority of American women under
stand us to certain point. They un-
dcrstand' why II was necessary for us
to interrupt meetings at which Cabinet
ministers were speaking. because in
no other way could we obtain n hear
ing, because. unless we did things of
that sort. the newspapers refused to
give publicity to our cause.
American women understand and
! sympathiHe with our deputations to
the leaders in tho House OF Commons:
with our opposition TO government
candidates ut by elections; with our
demonstrations, our pageants and pro-
Cessions.
| War Government.
What | fear they do not understand
is the logical progression of our war
on the government, as expressed in
destruction of property; our defiance OF
the courts. and our refusal to accept
prison sentences for offenses we never
denied committing.
II shall try TO make them under
stand Al any rate, | shall present
our side of the matter"
You see" continued the suffragette
leader. when the entire press is in
the hands OF the opposition. II is not TO
be expected that the women's side will
be fairly reported. is It? As n mat
ter OF fact. the English press ignores
us just as much as II can. 1t stead
lily and consistently misrepresents us
and very frequently it prints deliberate
falsehoods about u.s.
Many "OutrnEcs, Imaginary.
"Talf the so-callcd bomb outragcs
attributed 10 the sunragettes nevc
had existence ut sill outside the i'm
agination of reporters. However. II l.
not my object to deny any accusation
of this kind What I desire to max
clear is the fact that war Is beint
waged. not only by women against tn
government. but by the whole ma
chinery OF government, Parliament. tn
courts. the police and the secret ser
vice against women.
II want the American people to know
that IL England to-day women are be
ing tortured the most despcrat
criminals among men have not bee
tortured since the Middle Ages. Yes
it IS true
Dcnounccs "Cnt md Mouse" Act.
THE Liberal government. bcate
and discreditcd by the militant SUI
L. fragists: it's candidates defeated at tn
by-elcctions until nothing except tn
allegiance Of the Irish contingent re
mains to keep ii in power, has had re
course 10 piece OF legislation abso
lutely unprecedented in the history O
I English law.
. Il refer to the infamous cat an
. mouse acr, framed in the first place
make me Il convict without cxnctl
, killing me, and put into effect in tn
: hope OF crushing the health and vital
4 ity OF women sent to prison for trivia
offenseS."