Semi-weekly herald., 1913-05-08

ne calhedfal NerGef nealu inc uck-
ing and located the bomb before time
for it to explode The home office
officials say it was flied with high
explosives.
Another bomb was found this morn
ing in Bouverie street, near the Even
ing Star building
Last night the Cricket pavilion at
Bishops park at Fultsm and several
unoecupied buildings here were burn
ed. Suffragette literature was found
scattered about the ruins,
PARIS, May TIFF they should
put my mother to death; il they should
put any suffragette to death; if they
should put us TO the torture, what
ever they may do, the cause will
go right on and votes for women. be-
come more than ever imperative.
Miss Christabel Pankhurst, daughter
of Mrs. Emmaline Pankhurst, the En-
glsh suffragette leader, made this
statement in her apartment, 8 Rue
Roy, where she has made her home
since her escape from England at the
time her mother and sister, Sylvia,
were put in prison. Miss Pankhurst
is not an exile in Paris because she
fears the British Jail, but, following
conference with her mother and
sister, it was deemed more advantage
Gus to the cause for at least one Of
the family to be safe from molesta-
tion from the police.
"'rhe imprisonment of my mother
and her collapse after being tortured
. with forceful feeding" said Miss
Pankhurst, "but adds to the glory Of
our fight All the harm they do US
but serves to strengthen the cause.
And therein lies the real reason for
our hunger strikes When a suf
iragette is arrested and refuses TO
cat, in this manner protesting against
the right which the law gives men
ard refuses to women Sin we are
forbidden the right to vOJ, we do not
recognize the law and objecl to know
ing only It's effect The scandal would
be enormcls were cne II u to die in
prison. Sympathy would be ON our
side; our cause would rsnefit through
protestations which would surely fol-
low. The government knows this and
releases us when we grow weak from
hunger.
There are those who talk of ban
ishing us to ST. Helena as Napoleon
was banished. This is compliment.
Napoleon was sent to st. Helena be
cause he was feared. 1t would be the
same with us. But st. Helena would
not hold US; we are too many, and
we are growing in numbers daily. Now
they are urging the lynch law for
us. They are provoking crowds Of
toughs to attack us. Let them We
will win in spite of violence-and
perhaps because of it. 1t is a pitiful
spectacle, this process Of exciting the
rabble against us, and if some Of us
should be killed, the outrage would
help, not hinder And our onward
rush would not for an instant be
checked. OF course, we are charged
with acting in unlady-like ways. Our
only answer to this is that Joan of Arc
was a girl Therefore let no one be
dumbfounded when we follow the ad-
vice given us by Sir Henry Campbell
Bannerman. When a delegation OF
which ! was member, asked Sir
Henry what we ought to 70 to obtain
votes for women he said. Go out and
poster the people,
"Yes, we are going to get the vote.
We are certain of that And in the
meantime our activity is beneftting
the cause outside of England. When
the Norwegian statesmen discussed
the question of woman suffrage, they
declared:
"'See what is going on in England
let us spare ourselves that, and give
the women of Norway what is right
for them to have just as much as ii
is right for the men to have it And
the women of Norway got the vote,
But more important still, than get
ting the vote has been the manner in
which they have gloriously acquitted
themselves by the way they have in
fluenced good legislation. The Nor
wegian statesmen at first were amazed
at the wisdom and discrimination the
women showed in their exercise of the
franchise. Now the women of Nor
way are part and parcel of the gov
eminent of that country and their ad
vice is sought on many of the most
important problems and issues which
confront the nation and the munici