Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-10-24
BY Winifred Black.

New York City-Mrs. Pankhurst
stepped out of quarantine Monday
smiling and happy She didn't look at
all like an undesirable alien as she
walked down the dock to the ferry.
"Surprised?" she said. why, of
course I'm not surprised Is any
body? May I ask who?
THE immigration commissioners.
oh, now, do you seriously think they
seriously wanted to hold me? 1t
sounded to me like one of your clever
American jokes-really it did-when
/ first heard it. Fancy branding NOR
al turpitude' across my forehead and
sending me back across the ocean like
some poor soul with the leprosy
Says Everybody Is Kind.
How could anyone with any sense
of humor do such thing, and after
all, you know, you Americans have a
sense of humor, haven't you? Why
even in England nobody called me
guilty of moral turpitude,' you know,
and the things they do in England
but what was it you wanted to ask me
about?
MY stay in quarantine? Perfectly
pleasant l assure you; everybody was
most kind and what a nice class of
women you have there.
I'VE look to America for tolerance,
for freedom, for liberty. What is it
you say in your song, The land of the
free and the home of the brave'-you
certainly couldn't sing that IL you re-
fused to let woman land on your
shores just because she is devoting
her life to trying to help other women,
could you?
1.-The Goddess of Liberty out there
in the harbor-what would she mean
if you did such thing as that?
II hope the news has been cabled to
England that l am free to land; it will
be slap in the face to our enemies in
England.
do believe they had anything to
do with my being detained? Well, as
they say up in Scotland, I didna ken
but h'm'douts;' that's the way feel
about it.
What am I going to do in this
country? l am going to talk and work
and do everything l can to get the
sympathy of the American people on
the side of the English suffragets.
II shall talk militant methods?
Won't Talk Militant Methods.
81 shall do not such thing You
don't need militant methods in Amer
ica. Every American l meet tells me
that if the women of this county really
MT a fn 6p 10 tn
ask for it and the men of this country
will give it to them.
THAT is not true in England. The
women of England do want to vote
almost as much as they want to live,
and the men of England will not even
listen to us when we try to tell them
why.
They know why-only too well
they know it.
why, an Englishman can bring an
other woman right into his home; he
can make his wife receive her at her
own table, no matter who she is or
what she is, and there is no law in
England that will let her leave that
polluted home. There Is only one
parent in England-the mother does
not count in English law.
There is good deal of fun made
of the suffragets and of suffraget
methods, but there is nothing funny
in the things that have driven us to
such methods.
England is in state of civil war
today, and we English women are in
revolt against a government which
does not represent u.s."
Then her face grew serious. Il
hope" she said, that ! can help to
make the people of this great country
understand that we English women
are making exactly the same fight for
freedom that your American fore.
fathers made in 1776."