The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14
FOR DEFENSE PURPOSES
Will Aid suffrasettes in Their Battle
For the Vote and
Push Other
Activities.
[By Ed. L. Keen. London correspon-
dent Of the United Press.

LCVNlJN, Dec. l3.-S1r Henry
Vane! o, Lord dsliver us from Sir
Henry Vane!" sighed Cromwell ana
then the Great Protector proceeded
to assist the Lord by locking up in
Carisbrooke Castle the man who had
been trying to undermine the com
monwealth. But Sir Henry was re-
spector Of neither persons or govern
ments. His term Of imprisonment
having expired, after the restoration
he continued his rebellious activities,
where Charles II was moved to OBJ
serve: He is certainly too dangerous
man to let live, If we can honestly
put him out of the way So-whsth-
er honestly or not-ons morning in
June, 1862, they chopped off his head
on Tower Hill.
Now Captain Sir Francis Patrick
Fletcher Want, Bart. will probably
never meet the tragic fate of his dis
tinguished ancestor. and perhaps he
is not yet causing the present British
government quite so much anxiety
but he is on his way. Profound was
the ESTABLISHMENT in clubland when
1T was learned that 1.-THE peacock as
he is known there, had become COM
mander-in, chief of the Peoples Train
[ ing Corps, the new militant organiza-
ton of east side trade-unionists, So
ciaiists, syndicalists. and suffragettes.
"Haw! Haw! the peacock has a new
hobby" said his former fellow-nuts
of Pail Mall and Piccadilly. "Fawncy
Sir Francis going into the uplift bust
ness and In the east end, to. Deuced-
ily dirty place, what?" And thu gov
eminent was almost as rudely shock
ed-not to say embarrassed, when the
word reached Whitehall that Vane's
chief lieutenant in the drilling of the
new army" is brother of G. f. G.
treasury, and who by virtue of his
/ position stands in line for promotion
i to the next vacancy in the British
cabinet
Sir Francis is himself an old army
y officer. He served with distinction ii
1 the Boer war as captain of the ThirG
Royal Lancasters, and later achieved
some note as war correspondent fol
London papers. He is also knight
commander of the Order Of Christ
Formerly prominent and pictures
/ que figure among the afternoon stroll
er on the shady side of Bond street
nowadays Vane is living in furnished
rooms in Brixton, the habitat o
minor music hall artists, street-sing
4 ers, impecunious newspaper men
and other luckless Bohemians. Sine
his army days, the interests of ST
Francis, who is now 50 years old
, have been manifold and varied, rang
ing from the boy scouts to Italian art
and from heraldry to socialism I
was at the joint meeting in the boy
district of East London of suffragette
and socialists which was raided b
the police In an Intellectual attemp
to arrest Miss Sylvia Pankhurst--tha
Vane conceived his idea of the Pee
, pies Training Corps, which he late
!, put into execution. Starting with a
; enrollmen of 300, about evenly divide
; between men and women, the corp
, has grown daily and now threatens t
t spread to other parts of the meteor
: oils.
"Our purpose is not offensive, a
has been enormously charged, but d.
fensive," explained Sir Francis to til
United Press. I'VE organized thi
force to see fair play and to uphol
some of the elementary principles {
. chivalry. In London there ara tw
! officious organizations maintained b
. the capitalists, known as the civilia
! force and the volunteer police fore
I We claim the same right to existsnc
/ as they do, and We hope to act as
counterbalance to them When thug
/. are imported in the guise OF strili
breakers We are going to defend on
i. selves and our friends. The polio
Of the east end are out to club an
+ one who interrupts a goVernmel
4 sneakers meeting We ara g0inp