Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-04-27
Jail Authorities Declare That
If All Militant Women Were
Like Her. Cause Would Soon
Triumph,
NEVER LOST CHARM
WHILE IMPRISONED
Was Always Cheerful Despite
Confinement, and the Pluck
Displayed by Her Was Re-
markable,
my Morning Journal special Leased Wire

iAltAl NtAftiNt
(By Morning journal Special Leased wire)
London. April 26.-lf all the Eng
lish suffragcttes had the charm OF
Miss Zelle Emerson the American
girl, who went to Jail for the cause, -
equal suffrage would soon triumph IN
England, in the opinion Of the pri-
son authorities at the Holloway jail
where Miss Emerson was confined.
Even the doctors who were required
TO feed her forcibly express the high
est admiration for her pluck ana
choerfulness.
Miss Emerson's good nature and wit
made her favoritc among the pri-
son officials. and 1t is doubtless true
that she received better treatment
than many OF her English sisters ono
NJ The attaches of the American con-
sulnte who visited Miss Emerson at
Holloway said that she was one OF
the most charming girls he had ever
met and expressed the nope that the
state department would require him
TO repeat the visit.
Mrs. r. III. Emerson. Miss Ielie's
mother, is deeply distressed by a
statement made by Mrs. Emmeline
pankhurst some time ago at public
meeting. Previously, Ia the house or
commons reference had been made
bv speaker to a militant suffragette
in the Holloway Jail who had sought
to give herself pneumonia by Nins
uncovered on her cot after sponging
her body with warm water. Mrs
pankhurst mid tnat this sufifast;r
was Miss Emerson. Mrs Emerson ana
her friends consider that Mrs. Pank-
hurst displayed bad taste in making
the Incident public and the relations
between them are said to have become
rather strained.
One of the odd features of the sit
nation is the change in feeling eN-
perienced by American mothers VINO
70 to the American embassy to ask
aid in having their suffragettc daugh-
ters released from Jail. The mother
usually arrives In London, alone ana
unheralded, in state Of humiliation
or modification over her daughters
plight. such a one stepped into the
embassy recently. having arrived IN
London but an hour before. She inn
plored the staff 70 use their best ei-
forts to conceal news of her daugh-
ter's imprisonment. Were il made
public, she said weeping with shame
she could never again face her neigh
bors at home.
The militant sunragcttes took the
mother in charge. They persuaded
her that her daughters imprison-
ment was signal honor. Two days
later, with head held high and eyes
blazing, the mother strobe into the
embassy and demanded TO know why
the American people had not been
told that her heroic daughter was
suffering martyrdom in an English
Jail. on her second visit band OF
militant suffragettes accompanied
her.
Another American girl who has Gov
cred herself with suffragette glory
albeit not by serving a prison sem
tenee--is Miss Lillian Scott Troy, Of
San Francisco. Miss Troy Is O writer
and a woman of means. She is petite
and chic. and firm advocate of wo-
man suffrage. although she is not Il
member of the English suffrage or
ganization. In the campaign for Miss
Tmerson's release from Jail she took
a leading part
She achieved her greatest distine-
ton, however in the days Of the great
dock strike, Her heart was moved
with pity by the plight Of the wretch
ed children Of the idle strikers She
gave one little urchn his dinner.
Within a few minutes there were doz-
ems of hungry mouths to be fed. Miss
Troy then began a systematic pan OF
feeding all hungry children OF the
strikers. At first 1t looked as If the
strike would last but few days. AS
month after month dragged BY how
ever. with the strike still in force,
Miss Troy stuck to her self-appointed
task. When the strikers gave in, she
had given their hungry youngsters
$4,000 meals.
Miss Troy thus made herself the
idol Of the strikers Thousands OF
them knew her and would fight for
her at the drop of the hat When the
delegation of suffragettes went to the
Holloway jail to serenade Miss EN-
erson. Miss Troy called on the strik-
ers for a bodyguard From the hun
dreds who responded, a suitable guard
was selected. 1t accompanied the sur
fragettes to the jail and the usual dis
play of rowdyism was changed to
program as orderly as a Wednesday
night prayer meeting.
Although Mrs. Pankhurst went to
iail--and was afterward released
through a hunger strilke-because of
her assumption of responsibility for
burning the house Of the chancellor
of the exchequcr. she has not even
now the slightest knowledge of the
identity Of tile real perpetrators of