Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-07
PLEADS CAUSE Of
MRS. PANKHURST
Rev. Antoinette Blackwell Tells
Suffragettes Not to Judge
English Leader Too Hastily.

Pleading that Mrs. Emmeline Pank-
hurst be not judged too quickly, Rev.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell, of 231
Bayway, Elizabeth, made a stirring
address on the suffrage question be-
fore the members of the New Jersey
Woman's Press Club at her nome last
night Mrs. Minnie J. Reynolds.
State organizer of the Women's Po-
litical Union Of New Jersey. and
Mrs. Abraham Van Wrinkle, presi-
dent of the union, also made address
es at the meeting, which was the
first session of the club held this
season.
Mrs. Florence V. Frapwel, presi-
dent of the club, and Mrs. Raymond
ID. Carter, of this city, We're elected
delegates to attend the fall meeting
of the New Jersey state Federation
of Womens Clubs in Nutley on Octo-
Der 25 Miss Marie F. Ryerson, Of
East Orange, and Miss Ada u. Fuller,
Of Jersey City, were named as alter
mates. A box at Proctors Theatre
was presented to the club by Mrs.
William j. lyman, of Glen Ridge, for
their use at the mass-meeting there
on October %. Mrs. Blackwell said
in part:
Humanity balances between men
and women. l think English women
are wrong when they resort to the
methods they use, but l cannot en-
dure to have Mrs. Emmeline Pank-
Nurse referred to as insane or nerv-
ously overweight. We have no
right to hastily judge another's
methods. I heartily wish the En-
glish women had not marred valuable
works of art, but in most instances
they have been misrepresented. We
must all work to carry the day,
whole-heartedly and aggresively. We,
older women and pioneers for the
cause in this country. were ridiculed
and sneered at If the men were
ready to work with us we would soon
have equal suffrage because the men
are voters and hold the key to the
situation"
Mrs Reynolds said it was the first
opportunity accorded her to speak be-
fore a press club since she has been
in the East.
IT shall not give the usual cam
paign speech or use soapbox oratory
in addressing newspaper women"
she said 81 spent more than a year
in Sicily which may be termed the
land of the home woman. One never
has a perspective of ones own coun-
try until one lives away from It, In
Europe the people are often regarded
as belonging to two classeS-the
titled class and the peasant class.
There women are decidedly hampered
by the chaperone system. The cha
perone system in this country is in
process of formation, but In Euro
pean countries 1t exists as a reality.
I can positively say that girls in
Sicily never have good time, as our
American young women understand
the term. Girls never go anywhere
alone and never go anywhere with
each other. They must be accom-
panied by married woman or an
escort
Therefore. foreigners who write
about America are impressed with
the abundance of organized work as
1t exists for women. There is nothing
in the Latin countries that CORE
spends to women's auxiliaries. Order
of the Eastern Star, or Lady Mac
cabees There is nothing but the
home and the family for the women
of Europe. They do not have even
the church activities, such as the
Young Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union or the various forms of
settlement work. And there is great
disparity in education between women
and men in Europe. An Italian law
yer has to learn more of the classics
than those who read law In this
country, but an Italian lawyers wife
often does not know how to read"