The Detroit times., 1913-10-21
MRS. PANKHURST
GREAT AS MOSES,
SAYS UNION HEAD
President of WOmen's Trade
Leagues In America Has
Praise for Militant ~
DESTINED TO FREE
FEMININE PERSONALITY
English Leader Will BE Figure
In History For All Time
To Come
BY n. p. BURTON.
Copyright, 1918, BY the Newspaper
Enterprise Assoc iation.)

GUteTpTiOo HoSSS'essS'.j
CHICAGO, Oct. 2O--"Emmeline
Pankhurst Is as gigantic figure in
the history Of the great world as
Moses!
She Is the wonderful prophet who,
with a ballot as her rod, is surely
going to strike out of the rock In
which II has been deep-buried for Gen.
turtles, that as yet unknown, that as
yet untasted. spring--woman's per-
sonality!"
Mrs. Raymond Robins Is the speak
or. Mrs. Robins Is the national pres
ident OF the Women's Trade Union
Leagues of America, and she mas
practically. in her hands for the
moulding. the lives OF millions OF girls
who work--girls who work In shops
and factories throughout the lana.
And such a unique and revolutionary
force Is she bringing to bear on the
lives of working women that great
writer on The feminine movement
has just included her among the doz
en- leading figures whom he terms
Women as world builders.
Every woman, and especially the
woman-whO-works In America, should
be training her eager eyes toward
the statute of Liberty in New YORK.
harbor now" says Mrs. Robins. "She
should try to realize and to appreciate
to the full what Mrs. Pankhurst
means to us all-everywhere.
Mrs Pankhurst's motive for mill
fancy may be misunderstood by us
working people OF America, but Ger.
tainly her sincerity, her great pas
al In, hAr ia
stood by US.
The people who have continually
to fight the high-cost- of-living, to fight
even the onslaught OF awful poverty
itself set against them by trusts and
capitalism, know she is In earnest
about something"
"Why?" l asked.
Why"
Because she goes to prison
The folks whose lives are lived In
places where someone Is always try
ing to escape going to prison cannot
be told that anyone who fights. Al
though she knows that fight means
prison, Is not in earnest-terribly IN
earnest. For these people know pris-
on is no Joke.
so these people. among whom are
all the women working In trades IN
America. do not doubt Mrs. PanK'
hurst; they simply wonder why Mrs
Pankhurst. the founder OF the SUI
fraget movement, Is militant.
lis there really legitimate reason
for Mrs. Pankhurst to burn buildings,
TO attack the police. and to break
windows--a reason that you yourseil
can sympathize WITH" asked.
"Oh, yes, yes" Mrs. Robins cried'
"She has to be militant"
Why"
"To focus public attention. To
make every man and woman 80 con-
scious Of her demands that eacn one
must answer for himself whether or
not he believes In the vote for wom-
en-! why, II she hadn't done as she
has, public Indifference. the most en-
rulfing thing In the world. would long
Ago have overwhelmed all Thoughts
Of woman suffrage
Mrs. Pankhurst Is not a fanatic
simply on the vote. She doesn't over
estimate the value Of the ballot IL
self.
"To this great prophet. this Moses
Of the mothers of earth, the vote IL
properly understood.
she knows II Is just symDoi-a
symbol by the light Of which woman
all women-will finally become con-
scious that they are absolutely the
mothers Of the race and as such are
responsible for the race and there
fore must have control OF the things
Of women's work.! 49,.
And what are those things as the
nioneers OF the women's movement
see them?"
"Oh, many things-not just the
home any longer--for woman Is now
fully out in the world. working side
hv side with man. Woman Ia real
factor now in the world Of economics
and sociology. But she has not iouno
the adjustment she neeos-out sne 10
. demandinR It, still rather vaguely
perhaps, but always more and more
consciously and clearly.
"woman is going to discover ner
personality and her personality Is go