Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-26
Worlds Greatest Suffragist Wins
American Audiences by Mildly
Telling Her Story.

NEW YORK, oct. ga slight,
gray haired, mild woman is talking
to men ard women of New York
each day, crowds OF them, who hang
with respectful attention on every
word that comes from her lips. Her
tones are soft, her manner gentle, her
speech refined. She is charming
Americans as Englisnwomen of gentle
birth and breeding can charm.
This woman is the redoubtable Mrs.
Emmeline Pankhurst, England's apos-
tie of militancy. Jailed a score of
times in England for offenses that
approach closely the line of moral
turpitude, fighting her captors like a
tigress, stubbornly defying the King
and all his men. maintaining rigid
hunger strikes, she is here a very
embodiment of graciousness. New
York. long ago hardened TO all sorts
OF surprises, has not yet caught its
breath from the wonder that this
mouselike woman of soft speech can
he the fierce suffragette of whom it
has heard
America Transforms Her.
/. America, ii seems. has transformed
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst. What
King George with his soldiers and
Premier Asquith with his determined
House Of Commons failed TO do. the
men and women Of the United States
have done. Mrs. Pankhurst defled
force; she yields to kindness.
Free to roam the United States at
her will, she is thankful to the Amer
lean people FOR the opportunity.
THE Americans did it," she said
in her speech to-day referring to the
action Of the immigration authorities
in releasing her from detention on
Ellis Island. 81 am proud OF the
Americans. What will they say in
England"
And with that Mrs. Pankhurst
beamed triumphantly. The big au-
dience yelled as triumphaHtly, and
adoringly. There was no dissonant
note in all the voices that rendered
tribute to the Enslishwoman. Mrs.
Pankhurst has captivated Americans
OF suffrage leaniugs. just as all Amer
lea has captivated Mrs. Pankhurst.
She Likes Ellis Island.
She likes It all The immi grafton
officials on Ellis Island, OBTAINING her
under orders, were very nice to her
The room in which she was impris-
oned was luxurious in comparison to
the cells in which the English were
wont to lock her. She told her aU-
dience to-day that prisoners on Ellis
Island were treated more consider
atelv and Jared better than the free
poor people OF England.
She reached the New York shore.
There was the long. silent, splendid
Limousine of Mrs. o. II. z. Belmont
to meet her and 10 convey her to quar-
ters fit for queen. Reporters met
her gentlemen who doffed their hats
and who were es gracious and as OBJ
sequiOus as II they were interviewing
the truest nobility. Every mail
brought letters, every minute tele-
grams came, until the aggregate is a
ton or more, that can never be read.
Tribute poured from every quarter
And Mrs. Pankhurst capitulated.
America was good TO her, and her
spirit Of militancy dissolved
Lecturng, Mrs. Pankhurst has
found Is rather more profitable in
the United States than in England
This naturally pleases her also. The
first lecture delivered in New York
netted her 500. record amount
for her receipts. She has announced
that the money thus obtained VIII 20
toward furthering the cause