The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-26
SUNDAY

"A reign of terror" according to the
suffragettes of England who have es-
poused militant tactics, is now ABOUT
to set in as a means of demonstrating
to the government the displeasure OIL
the suffra gettes at the treatment re-
ceived by Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst,
their leader, in the British courts, ana
their general discomfort with the at
titude of parliament toward the Dill
presented in favor of woman suffrage
In order to show their contempt for
the courts the women sympathlzers
of Mrs. Pankhurst loudly upbra1ded
the judge for passing sentence upon
her cried Shame in loud voices
and. tramping into the streets, formed
a procession, began to sing the Mar
sefllaise and dared the police to ar
rest them.
Began Reprisals Next Day.
The following day, to show that
their threats of violence were not to
naterialize in mere theatrical display,
they burned newly erected country
house in Buckinghamshire, blew up
a number of empty cars, and tried to
blow up the station at OStend in Sur
rey. After any number of minor per-
formances, including the cutting of
telegraph and telephone wires, the
destruction of flower beds in parks,
and the breaking of an unusually large
assortment of windows, the militant
seekers for votes for women finally
reached the highest pinnacle of their
campaign thus far achieved, in their
attempt on April to blow up the
ruins of the ancient and historic Dud-
ley castle, the keep of which dates
back to the eighth century, when the
stronghold was built by Saxon
prince. The attempt to destroy the
remains of this historic pile failed in
the main, although the two old siege
guns, relics of the Crimean war,
were blown out of position. That
there might be no doubt as to the
perpetrators of the outrage, each of
these old guns bore a message from
the suffragettes. Votes for women
and damn the consequences was
printed on one of the cannons, while
on the other were the words, I'm hon
or of Mrs. Pankhurst."
The suffragette wrath, at first di-
rected especially against the states
men who had refused to listen to their
demands, now falls equally upon the
just and the unjust, even according to
their own standard. The destruction
of public parks and gardens. of rail-
way property and public halls, the in
reference with telephone and tele-
graph business, the smashing of win
dows and the burning of property is
not any more confined to instances
which bear some obvious relation to
the political situation. Terror for
terror's sake is now the watchword of
the English suffragettes, who since
the first of the year have come to be
known as the wild women of Eng
land
Army of Special Police in London.
Thick and fast have come the out
RACES committed by the English suf-
fragettes in the last two years. One
year ago the destruction of property
at the hands of these women had he
come so widespread that it was neces-
sary to draft 5000 special police in
the city of London to protect the prop-
O. nf lima ri
by this attempt of the authorities to
curb their activities, the women re-
doubled their efforts, and on the dav
Following the increasing of the police
force the smashing of windows and
the assaulting of merchants were car
ried to a greater length than ever be-
fore.
A little later in the year the suf-
frasettes, guiltless of any reverence
for even the sovereign himself in
vaded the grounds of King Georges
Highland castle, at Balmoral. and
managing to elude all the guards !
planted their votes for women FLAGS ,
all around the golf links on which tbe
king was playing.
About the same time the women he
gan their peculiar method of winninp
9dherentS to their cause by destro1-inry
the mail of all citizens alike. whether
Iney We're opponents or friends to the !
movement. Ink and acid was no1rad
into the letter boxes at a number Of !
places and the mail completely de-
stroyed.
Attempt to Horsewhip Lloyd-Georse.
The next move made by the vo,,a,,
which attracted the attention of +ba
pubic was the attempt to horsevbin
Mr.. Lloyd-George at the statior ~ !
Aberdeen, to which place he had eona
with the object of addressing a IiharaI
meeting. The furious wild women rnaJa
a mistake in identity, however. and in
stead of humiliating the mueh-bata,5 |
statesman, they merely succeeded IN
laShlng across the face an inDooan+
clergyman, whom they took To he a.
cabinet minister. In Aberdeen on tbo
same day that the misplaced laSbina
took place. an Infatuated suffra cote
who was displeased with the action of
a magistrate, who was about TO con-
nit her for disorderly conduct threw,
one of her shoes at the represents five
of British justice and hurled her other
piece of foot gear at the clerk of tho
court. 'ie
Meanwhile the out-of-towr s,,ffro
gettes We're not having all tho f1In -
themselves, for one energetic Iondon
sister had at the same time visited tba
Tower of London and smashed tbe
glass case inclosing' Jewel case which
piece of ruffianism resulted in the