The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-10-23
MRS. PANKHURST IS
HELD UNDESIRABLE
MILITANT LEADER BARRED AND
ORDERED DEPoRTED BY
u. s. OFFICIALS.
AN APPEAL 70 WASHINGTON
Granted This Right by Special Board
of lnquiry-Held at Ellis Island
Pending Final Aetion-Threat-
ems Hunger Strike.

New York, Oct. 20.-Visions of a
hunger strike in America by the leader
of the English militant ~suffragettes for
a time worried the immigration Off
Gals at Ellis island when Mrs. EN-
incline Pankhurst, after being barred
from landing and ordered deported by
the authorities, declared she would not
eat until she was given permission to
land. But when Mrs. Pankhurst was
notified that she would be given right
to appeal to Washington, and that her
attorneys already had taken steps for
this appeal, she changed her mind and
held the hunger strike in allegiance.
She was told by her attorney that the
Washington authorities had given as
surance that Mrs. Pankhurst would be
released under bond.
Militant Smiles Broadly.
On receiving this news, Mrs. Pank-
hurst smiled broadly and said she
would like something to eat. She dis
posed of a big cut of roast beef with
trimmings and then allowed that the
felt better.
Taken from the liner Province Sat
urday and forced to stand an eXami-
nation regarding her fitness to land,
Mrs. Pankhurst ~eloquently defended
her action in England. 1t was all for
the cause, she insisted, and when con-
fronted with alleged acts of herself
and followers involving moral turpi-
tude, she dramatically exclaimed:
IF what l have been guilty of in
my fight for the right of English wom-
en- to vote is to be called moral turpi-
tude, then all l care to say is that your
forefathers who fought in the revolu-
tionary war and the men who spilled
the tea into Boston harbor were guilty
Of the same crime"
Denounces U. S. Board.
Mrs. Pankhurst bitterly denounced
the special inquiry board for the man.
ner in which it conducted the inquiry.
It's members were equipped with in
Vulnerable clippings from the British
newspapers setting forth what she and
her followers had done. And when
the board finally announced that she
was undesirable and would be re-
turned to England, she shouted:
"All right, if you can stand it, then
l can, too. But | want to warn yoL
that l will not eat a single morsel of
food while / am detained a prisoner
here at this station"
Mrs. Pankhurst's outbreak followed
the announcement of the special board
of inquiry that it held the English suf-
frage leader undesirable. 1t ordered
her excluded from this country. She
will, however, be granted the right of
an appeal to Washington.
Washington, Oct. 20.-Declaring that
he would mot be rushed into a deci-
sion of a case nationally and interna-
tionally important" Commissioner of
immigration Caminetti declined to lib
crate Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst from
Ellis i land on bonds furnished by her
friends.
President Takes Hand.
The president is to take a hand in
deciding the question of whether Mrs.
Pankhurst shall be admitted.
President Wilson called a confer
ence today with Secretary Wilson Of
the Department of Labor and Commits
sioner General Caminetti of the inn
migration bureau. High government
officials, who are believed to know the
attitude OF the president, predicted
that Mrs. Pankhurst would be ad-
mitted.