The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-29

ed vigilance of their guards, to escape
from the nursing homes or private
houses where they were recuperating.
The prediction freely made at the
time, that McKenna's new species OF
prosecution would simply serve 70
drive the militant movement into I'M
derground channels, has been fulfil.
ed. The members of the arson squad
the Young Hot Bloods-whom Scot
land Yard failed to round up when 1t
raided the suffragette headquarters,
apparently do their work quite as eff
GENTLY without the counsel and adj.
vice of their leaders.
Not only has the new policy failed
to stop militancy, but it has aroused
a tremendous amount of public re-
sentiment. Persons who have no sy1n-
pathy with w. S. P. u. methods, or
even with the woman suffrage move
ment generally, are berating McKenna
for applying the "cat and mouse" act
to suffragettes and withholding It
from other offenders. Three burglars
recently hunger-struck when they
heard of the "cat and mouse" act
and were promptly and effectively
forcibly fed.
The plight Of the unfortunate
mice" who have failed to elude re.
capture and periodical reimprison-
ment has occasioned numerous pubic
meetings of protest and unmeasureu
denunciation Of the act.
"A more ingenious and spiteful form
| of torture has never been invented
said DR.. Flora Murray, who has treat
ed a number of the mice" and who
is actively agitating for the repeal OF
| the measure, to the United Press.
1 "The doctors and nurses find them
selves in an amazing position They
use every means at their disposal to
restore the patient to health, and be-
| fore she is convalescent, without con-
sulting them, she is taken from them,
only to be returned in few days on
| a stretcher, half-killed, and accom-
panied by notice which gives them
seven days in which to make her able
to 60 through it all again. And this
is going on ad infinitum unless the pub
lie stops It. Id
4 The true meaning of it all is MUIR
/ der-murder by act of parliament.
1 The act is brutalizing and degrading.
/ 1t degrades the legislature that enact
4 ed it: 1t degrades the nation that toll
crates it."
i This from Beatrice Harraden: "The
cat and mouse act is diabolical. To
make the law efficacious and deter
rent it was necessary that suffraget-
ties should be appalled, at the pros
pect 1t opened before them. They
have not been appalled,, and SO the
remedy has failed"
n Even the vice-president Of the Roy
al College OF Surgeons, Prof. G. Man
sell Moulin is among the influential
public men who are working to have
the act abrogated. Tine cat and
mouse act was an admission that for
chile feeding had failed" he said
"How complete the failure was shown
by the indecent haste with which the
bill was rushed through both houses
1t could not have been more expedi
tious had the very existence of the
empire been at stake. The women !
movement, or that part of it tina,
matters must be crushed in any way
by any means, and the responsibility
for any awkward occurrence pushet
On to someone else's shoulders. The
women may die; they will die--o
that there is no doubt-if this treat
men is continued. and some people
will say they have been killed; bu
they will not actually die In prison
They will be sent home Just in timt
to avoid such scandalsl and an in
quest. Even If parliameht does no
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