The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-29
ENGLISH WOMEN
 NOTICE LACK OF AMERICAN SUPPORT
Believe Sisters Over the Sea Lack Their ArdOr in Cause of
 Equal Suffrage

l London, March 29.-English suf-
 fragettes are today complaining of a 1 decided falling away of American sup port, in the field of financial contribu- 1 ton as well as in the matter of vol
 unteer workers. But at the same time | it is recognized that the reason is be- cause the growing activity of the campaign in America is making in- creasing demands on both the money and the time of American women, and that the home interest is naturally the more vital.
 During the early days of the mili- tant movement the Women's Social and Political Union received monetary and personal assistance from numerous American women, most of whom have withdrawn from the work here to take part in the exciting campaigns which are being conducted in various Amer ican states. The militants depended for their American support largely on American women staying in England either for pleasure or study. This was
 because resident American women in terested in the cause have given their zations which use only constitutional methods in their campaigns. Ameri- can wives of EnglishGnen in most cases
 also have attached themselves to the i constitutional organizations.
 A number of American women who have associated themselves with the militant movement have jail records
 as long as the most ardent of their English sisters, but the same enthu-
 siasm which led them to smash win
 dows and disturb the peace of cabinet
 ministers has not been enlisted at
 the suffrage battlefront in the United
 States.
 This defection is resented by some
 Of the officials of the WoInen's Social
 and Political Union, who declared that
 n SI71 En a.
 ries in the cause and that, once hav-
 ing thrown in their lot with the Eng
 fish militants, they should stay in the
 forefront of the battle until Parlia-
 ment capitulates. They also complain
 of the inactivity of American women
 permanently residing in London, and
 declare that their attitude is selfish.
 In answer to this, 8 prominent mem
 Der of the American Women's Society
 stated that her compatrfots had no
 more business to meddle in the Eng
 fish suffrage movement than an Amer
 ican man would have to mix actively
 in politics here.
 The latest American volunteer to the fighting forces of the ". s. F. U.,
 Miss ZeIie Emerson, of Michigan, proved herself a strenuous fighter for the brief time she remained at liberty. She .is now, however, a guest of His Majesty in Holloway jail, where she has just been removed to the second division after undergoing hunger strike as a protest against a sentence of hard labor for window smashing. Accompanied by Miss Sylvia Plank hurst and George LansbIry, Jr.. son of the former member of Parliament who resigned his seat bo contest Bow and Bromley on the issue of equal suffraGe Miss Emerson made a spec tacular raid through that slum dis trict The raid took both the inhab- itants and authorities by surprise. for hitherto the ndlitants have confined their window smashing to the faah- ionabIe shopping and office districts, and it was not until the smashers had destroyed much glass that they were arrested. The offices of the Liberal Association of Bow and Bromley Suf- fered severely. from the raid, and thereby were the suffragettes revenged for the failure of the Liberal party to fight for Lansbury in his contest to regain his seat as a champion of suf- frage. The sentence of hard labor on the raiders was denounced by their supporters as vindictive and they at once went on hunger strikes, the re- suit of which as been their removal to the second division.
 One of the most active fighters in the w. S. P. U. ranks is Miss Amy Maud Hicks, formerly a professor at Bryn Mawr. Her record of previous convictions reads like that of a New York burg ar. She is exceedingly proud of this record, which is spread over a page of the new Who's Who of Woman Suffrage. Miss Hicks is now so well known to the police that she cannot appear on the street with out meeting some policeman who has the pleasure of accompanying her to a police station. No one woman in the militant army has done more for the g1aziers' trade than Miss Hicks.
 Until her return to the United States fTN IT- man of the Congressional Committee for woman's Suffrage, Miss Alice Paul, a doctor of philosophy of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, was a close IT. val of Miss Hicks for the distinction of serving the longest time in jail. Miss Paul is now at her home in Moorestown, Pa
 Another American woman who has left for home recently after a tour Of Europe, spent chiefly in investigating the suffrage movement, is Mrs. James Sanborn, of San Francisco, who was one of the leaders in the campaign which gave the California women the vote. Mrs. Sanborn spent three months in Spain, where she met one aFoWed suffragette. This bold pioneer de- cIared. however, that she had many sub rosa supporters. Mrs. Sanborn visited many of the suffrage orsan1- zations here, but did not do any active work for any of them.
 Miss Teresa Frances wilson, Secre- tary of the National Council of Wo- men of Canada, is still an active unit of the w. S. P. Us fighting cohorts She is a playwright, and uses her pen as well as 8 hammer in support of the cause.
 Maxine Elliott and her sister Ger trude (Mrs Forbes -Robertson) are ac- tive workers for the cause which they serve through the Actresses Fran chise League Gertrude Elliott fire quent1y opens her home for suffrage entertainments and receptions, and her husband appears occasionally on the platform in support of the move ment Few actresses take an active part in rnilitancy, although some of them approve of the methods. The only ones who go out with a hammer are those without an engagement, to