The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-10-24
N0CROWD TO HEAR
MRS. PANKHURsT
FRosr" FOR ENGLISH MILITANT
FIRST NIGHT IN NEW
/ YORK CITY.
HALL ABOUT A FOURTH FULL
Few "Hunger Strikers" Sit With Mill
tant Speaker on Platform-Social-
ist Candidate Introduces the
Speaker of the Evening.


iad been made for an overflow meet
ing for Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst to
be held in Madison Square garden,
but the hall, seating 10000 people,
was scarcely one-quarter filled. The
frost" as it was termed by some,
vas said by Mrs. Pankhurst's friends,
20 be due to the fact that it was
thought while she was detained at
Ellis Island that she would not be
allowed to land in the United States.
Explains Militant Method,
In her address Mrs. Pankhurst ex.
planned why militant methods for the
cause of woman suffrage are followed
England, but not in America, and
defended the employment of such
methods. She criticised the British
government as the most conservative
through failure to enact legislation
desired by women, for advocates OF
suffrage resorting to violence to OBJ
ain the ballot. ~.
Only through dynamic means, she
declared, could English women hope
10 secure laws dealing with white
slavery, industrial evils and other
conditions affecting women.
"Hunger Strikers There.
Some leading suffragists of this
country and a few hunger strikers
sat with Mrs. Pankhurst On a stage
1raped with a tri-colored flag, bear
ing the inscription, Resistance to
Tyranny Is Obedience to God" Bear
Ing small prison bar badges, signify.
ing that their militancy had resulted
In Jail terms, were Miss Elsie McKen'
zie and Miss Mary Keegan, English
girls, who came here to accept busi
ness opportunities, and Miss Lucy
Burns and Miss Elizabeth Freeman
American girls, who went to England
to fight for "the cause" Mrs. o. H
P. Belmont, Mrs. Lavinia Beck, Miss
Sybil Wilbur, Miss Alberta A. HILL
Miss Fola La Toilette, Miss Ida
Craft and other American suffragist
leaders sat with them.
Socialist Candidate is Spokesman.
Mrs. Pankhurst was formally intro
duced by Charles Edward Russell
Socialist candidate for mayor. The
audience, the majority of them WON
en-. made a demonstration lasting two
minutes, when the English militant
leader tried to speak. Women stood
on chairs and frantically waved hand
kerchiefs and yellow flags. Mrs
Pankhurst closed her eyes and waited
for the enthusiasm to die away. He1
experience with the immigration au
thorities, Mrs. Pankhurst spoke OF
with praise, declaring the work al
Ellis Island admirably done and the
immigrants cared for there far better
than are the poor, alien and native
in Great Britain.
81 have been accustomed to, plead
ing my own cases in England" she
said. 81 wanted to go to Washington
and plead my own case there. l want
to thank those who pleaded for me
there, and thank the American public
| do not thank the Washington au.
liberties and do not think President
Wilson wanted to be thanked. He
would say: I did my duty l con
graduate the American people who
have officials il higL places who per
form their duties as they see them
Calls White Slavery Awful.
Mrs. Pankhurst discussed equal
suffrage and white slavery. White
slavery she characterized as more
awful even than negro slavery in it's
worst form ever was in the United
States. In this slavery are slaves OF
every color and they are all of one
sex"