New-York tribune., 1913-10-23
MRS. PANKHURST HAPPY
/ AND NOT COMPLAINING
n Thought It a Very Good
Audience" She Says of the
Garden Meeting.
MERE MAN GETS THE BLAME
sufragists Say Trouble Was
That Women Didn't Manage
It-"Be Amiable," Mill
tant Tells Women.

| .eThe trouble with the Madison Square
Garden meeting was that the women
s,dpt manage IT,"
This. after full discussion. was the con-
clusion 10 which nearly every suffragist
came yesterday The only one who didn't
cav II was Mrs. Pankhurst herself
Mrs. Pankhurst. who came down to the
seadouarters OF the Political Equality
Association in the morning and lunched
,here. did not seem in the least troubled
.,yer the fact that her audience the night
before was made up of only three thou
sand persons. instead Of ten or twelve
thousand.
thought it very good audience"
a. said II do not believe many political
meetings would draw larger crowds If the
tickets had to be paid for. Such meetings
are generally free
Il fancy. too, that many people thought
could not be heard in so large place.
knew ] could wouldn't think 1t fair
TO ask people to come unless knew |
could make them hear me; but. OF course.
others couldn't know that as d!d.
1t was a sympathetic audience / had.
very delightful to talk TO. / strained my
voice a bit at the end-just a temporary
strain, which | shall be over directly"
Mrs. Mary Ware bennett, secretary Of
the National Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton said the meeting was in no sense a
test OF the interest in Mrs. Pankhurst.
Those men," she said, didn't know
bow 10 advertise it, that was all. The
thing was bungled.
The Madison Square Garden people
merely announced Mrs. Pankhurst to the
general public as an attraction. the same
as they would a boxing match. They had
no notion of arousng interest among the
sufragists. silly press agent stories were
their idea Of reaching the people, No
wonder they failed.
Mrs Nora Batch de Forest said the
change Of dates confused thousands of
persons and kept them away.
MANY sufragists went to Carnegie
Hall last night" she said thinking the
meeting was 10 be held there. as origi-
naly announced. All the evening people
were calling my mother over the tele-
phone saying. Where is the Mrs. Pank-
hurst meeting? 1t was all one grand
masculine botcn.
There was a general idea, too. that
one couldn't hear in Madison Square
Garden. We don't think of il as a place
TO hear speeches in. Lots of people didn't
go for that reason"
Mrs Pankhurst. by the way. wants all
women who are out in the world TO
fight not only for suffrage. but for all
their rights. -'..
The vote" she said yesterday. will
help women in all sorts of ways. There
won't be the present unjust discrimina-
ton against women workers when they
have the prestige of the ballot.
But women workers can resist this
discrimination even without the ballot
and they ought to. Let them tght-but
be perfectly amicable about it.
81 know" she added with a smile,
that it's very hard sometimes TO be po-
lite but a woman can gain more by being
so. Let her always be amiable-but
firm"
In the evening Mrs Pankhurst, with
Mrs o. II. p. Belmont, Miss Joan WICK
ham. Mr.. and Mrs Wallace Benedict and
Ingals Kimball occupied a box at Maxine
Elnott's Theatre and saw THE Lure
Apparently few people knew she was
there. for there was a general craning
Of necks when after the second act II
was announced that Mrs. Pankhurst will
tell us about conditions in England such
as those which have led to the writing
Of this play"
Rather hoarse and low was ", |ank-
hurst's voice as she told the 'ldience
that plays like The Lure are not i'm
moral, it is the facts that are immoral
Il am a militant suffragist." she said.
In my country we are not only arguing
Tor the vote; we are lighting for the
vote And Of every thousand women VINO
are doing that, 999 are doing so because
they feel an intolerable sense of injustice
mot for themselves but for those other
women who are victims
What's wrong with the world is that
women are too cheap People tell us That
men and women are so different in nature
that single moral standard is impos-
sible
We women will not have il so. Even
If the things which this play pictures
we're necessary for the so-caled health OF
men, better that the race should perish
tnan that women should be sacrificed In
such traffic.
Light is breaking, and some time, per-
haps, woman's dream will be realized
The dream Of a world in which the only
relations between men and women are
Hose which are pure"
from The Tribune Bureau