New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-09
WIN # MRS. PANKHURST
IS KEPT OUT, SHE SAYS
Militant Methods the Gamer, No
Matter What Happens, Asserts
Globe Trotting SuffragiSt.
WAS PICKET IN LONDON
California Woman, Just Back
from Abroad, Finds Mill
fancy Is in the Air Every
where Over There.

Mrs. Alice Park globe-trotting suffra-
gist, just back from an exciting four
months with the London miifants, says
that whether Mrs Emmellne Pankhurst
is admitted to the United States or is de-
ported her cause viii be the gamer.
The militants always are the gain
ers. aae said yesterday at Mrs. o. H..
J. Belmonts suffrage lunchroom. III
Mrs. Pankhurst is kept out there'll be
the advertisement Of the cablegrams and
the fuss and the wrath; II she comes in
| therell be the big meetings. All | can
| say is I'm sorry for the man who has to
he decides against her. Yes. he'll have
my pity then"
Mrs. Park is a California woman, head
of the civic League OF Palo Alto. Having
helped the women Of her state TO get the
vote, and helped show them how TO use
IL, she decided she was entitled 10 a
suffrage spree. She went TO the conven-
ton at Budapest, and IN July headed for
London, where in less than four hours
after landing she was picketing outside
Holloway Jail, IN which Mrs. Pankhurst
| was imprisoned
THE government is manufacturing suf-
fragettes over there-turning EN- out by
| hundreds she said. Il saw younS
American. lecturer in a college over here,
attacked by the police because he started
to put down In his notebook the number
/ of an officer who was maltreatng suf-
! fragette, a woman. This American was
| lot -,
| ragged because a woman was abused. The
! officer tried TO take his notebook from
| him; he tried to hold on TO 1t. and called
on a companion 10 help him. For this he
was arrested and sent TO prison. I've
/ often wondered what became OF that
young American-but I'll warrant that he
/ came out OF jail sufragette"
Mrs. Park started out to Join all the
militant suffrage societies in London, but
/ finding there were forty-siX she compro-
missed on FIVE, The Spiritual Militancy
| League. the Women's Freedom League
| the Free Speech Defence Committee. the
/ Irish Women's Franchise League aud the
/ Womens Social and Political Union. AL
/ she says, are for militant methods In theii
/ yerious ways.
! "Aiilltancy is in the air there she
said. Il was at vaudeville show one
/ day and the actor who was singing, IN
: the midst OF his nonsense. burst out with
/ Mrs. Pankhurst Is eating now, and
everybody feels better. She wants 10 be-
have herself but sylvia won't iet her
Its so everywhere in London-its ir
| the air
| The government thought II could erusf
! the milltants by closing up their head
/ quarters last summer and conhscaun.
1900 in money they had there. The gov
eminent thought TO frighten sympathizer'
out Of contributing more money. Th'
very next day contributions began t.
come IN. and they kept coming. Some
Of 'em were from American women-anC
| you'd DO surprised 20 know what Amer
lean women. for they're ones who don
call themselves mlltants over here
! They don't want 20 admit 1t here-ou
they know m!litancy IS the only way L
deal with those stupid and selfish Eng
| nshmen who. with 40 out OF the g.
votes in Parliament for woman suffrage
are Withholding the vote from thei
| women"