Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-11-28
THE sUFFRAcIsTS MAKING GOOD.
PankhuFst WAITS The Vote SO Sweet
lg"-Anne Arundel Just Govern
mept League Discusses English
Militant

The Just Government League of
Annapolis held its regular meeting
on Monday afternoon in their rooms
of the neutrality-suspicious. BUILD
ing. There was the usual business,
after which the president announced
that thtre had been some misunder-
standing in regard to 3 speaker for
the afternoon, and suggested that
there should be informal talks on the
subject of suffrage by the members
Of the League and the friends in the
audience.
1t was then suggested to the presi-
dent that those present who had
heard Mrs. Pankhurst speak in Bal
timore should take this opportunity
Of giving to the League here the ben
EFT of what they had heard. and their
Impressions Of this remarkable wo-
man whose small hand is heard knock
ing at the doors Of Government
monarchical and republican. This be-
ing approved, there was an animated
and interesting talk of this english
gentle-woman, her work and methods.
All of those who heard her were
greatly impressed by her wonderful
poise, her womsnly dignity and ten
derness, as we'll as her great spirit
and leadership. One spt aker freed
with Mr. Montgomery Flagg in all
be said of her in his short but COM
pli,nentary notice-even if he did
write in his usual serio-comic weir,
when he says Mrs. Pankhurst wants
the vote $50 sweetly," the speaker
asks why not want things sweet
~" One of the oldest riddles on
record is "Out of the strong came
forth sweetne IS, and the strongest
bridge yields to her rhythmic tread.
1t was allowed that Mrs. Pank-
hurst roasted the Zine old English
gentleman" so that she made the nur-
sery rhyme of our youth ring true.
One could almost "smel the blood of
an EngIishman" with all this IA TO
fun" the suffragists are making, but
the cooking was carefully done and
showed the woman was still fine in
domestic and culinary art, notwith-
standing her suffrage leadership.
This Speaker thought that Mrs.
Pankhurst showed herself no faddist,
but only working out early and pre-
natal influences che was born into a
family already in revolt against an
old and narrow regime, whose hard
and fast rule was, that what is and
has always been, must be right.
Her father and mother were VIZ rk-
ers in philanthropic schemes and
she grew up in that atmosphere and
married man many years her Sc
nior, whose life was a long fight
against 4rorg and injustice. She
said she, herself, was probably born
a revc lutionist, for one of her earliest
remembrances was her sympathy
with the South during the Civil War,
and movement among her people to
give financial aid in which she Joined
with childish interest and eagerness.
All who had heard Mrs. Pankburst
agreed that she was woman conse-
Grated to a big idea, and however the
lew-abiding people may condemn
some of her methods, they must feel
that her position now is much like
that of Disrseli when he said to
Parliament 1.-The day will come when
you shall hear me- The British
lion must not always sleep.
!, After the adjournment Of the in
teresting meeting of the League,
there was a daintily served tea and
enticing talk, much admiration of
arts and crafts exhibit, and plans for
the next meeting on Monday, the
first of December, to which all are
invited.