Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1913-04-18
N|L|TANTS
SUFFRAGE HERE?
Mrs. Pankhurst's Followers
Even Create Disturbance
In Royal Palace.

ed fuse. All but an inch of the fuse
| was burned He extinguished IT. The
bomb consisted of canister inclosed
in a box in which were sixteen loaded
gun cartridges, pieces of jagged steel.
bullets and scraps of lead On the box
was painted; More to Come Votes
For Women. Give Us the Vote.
The suffragettes declare that they
are not responsible for an anonymous
letter received by Sir Charles Mon
tague Lush. the judge who sentenced
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst to three
/ years Imprisonment. The letter threat
cned him with death.
The secretary of the Women's Social
and Political union said:
Human life is sacred to US as much
| so now as before the sentence on Mrs,
/ pankhurst."
Clergymen Interested.
! Mlitancy recently has been receiving
attention from the pulpits of England.
! Among the ministers who discussed
| the question is Dr. Leonard G. Brough-
/ ton. pastor OF Christ church, Westmn-
ster Bridge road. formerly of Atlanta.
Ga. In one of his sermons he said:
~ small bunch of rampant anarch-
lists who ought to be in prison or in
the lunatic asylum are bringing dis
grace on their sex and hinderlng their
noble cause-a cause which soon would
be victorious If it were not for tue
methods of anarchy used by these wo'
men with the idea of forcing it"
About that time three uninhabited
houses were set on fire. One was
at Mendon, another at Potter's bar
and the third at Hemel, Hampstead.
| Oil cans and suffragette literature were
found in the vicinity of the houses
A campaign against the "indignities''
to women, contained In the Anglican
marriage service, was begun by the
suffragsts' spiritual militancy league.
Fifteen such moral humiiations are
mentioned in the manifesto which the
league prepared for mailing not only
to every clergyman of every church In
England. but to all persons whose
forthcoming marriage is announced in
the daily papers.
Words Objected To.
The first two indlgnities alleged are
| the words obey him and serve him."
| which the bride is required to repeat
and the question put by the minister.
''who giveth this woman to be mar.
| ried to this man?" One of the rene
tn1 Eo
| of the words. the alternative is that
| the bridegroom be required to promise
to "obey and serve herr and that the
minister also ask. who givetb this
man to be married to this woman?"
Three indgnities surround the mar
rage ring and the bridegroom's accom-
panying declaration. THE words. With
all my worldly goods | thee endow.'
have never been true" says the man
ifesto. The government is urged to
drop the ring ceremony and its formula
or to enforce an exchange of rings and
the use of formula containing mo
economic falsehoods or moral offense."
Humiliation No. ~ is the minister's
pronouncement that the couple shall
be man and wife together. The impli
cation complained of is that 1.-The WON
an is wholly a wife and the man not
wholly a husband"
Protesting that the first of the
Psalms addresses itself wholly to the
bridegroom. the league demands its
omission or that it be supplemented by
another addressed to the WIFE
The petition that the man shall love
his wife as Christ the church is an
| appalling humiliation of woman and
a pernicious exaltation of man." says
the manifesto.
The thirteenth indignity is quoting
ST. Pauls words: wives, submit your
selves unto your husbands as unto the
Lord, for the husband is the head of
the wife, even as Christ is the head Of
the church"
The league strenuousiy opposes the
idea of the husband being the head of
the wife and suggests Husbands,
also submit yourselves unto your
wives" as a supplement to this second
exhortation to the wife.
Failure of Plans.
A plot of the suffragettes TO blow mp
the grand stand of Crystal palace the
day OF the football cup final was dis
closed by Il newspaper. 1t shows that
the plans were arranged secretly with
military precision.