The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-03-31
AMER|CANSUPP0RT
IS NOW MISSING
English suffragettes Com
plain Because u. s. SIS
tiers Snub Them.

London. March 31.-English suffra-
gettes arc today complaining of Il de-
cided falling away of American sup
port. in the field of financial contribu-
ton as we'll as in the matter of volun
tecr workers. Rut at the same time
it is recognized that the reason is he
cause the growing activity of the cam
palgn IN America is making increas-
ing demands on both the money and
the time of American women. and
that the home interest is naturally the
more vital.
During the early days of the militant
movement the women's social and
political union received monetary and
personal assistance from numerous
American women, most of whom have
withdrawn from the work here to take
part in the exciting campaigns which
are being conducted in various Aneri-
a states. The militantS depended
for their American support largely
on American wome staying in Eng
land either for pleasure or study. This
was because resident American women
interested in the cause nave given their
talents and sympathies to the organi-
cations which use only constitutional
methods in their campaigns. American
wives of Englishmen in most cases al
SO have attached themselves to the
constitutional organizations.
American Women Have Jail Records,
A number of American women who
have associated themselves with the
militant movement have Jail records
as long As the most ardent OF their
English sisters. hut the same enthusi-
assn which led them to smash win
dows and disturb the peace of cabinet
ministers has now been enlisted at the
suffrage battlefront in the United
States.
This detection is resented by some
OF the officials of the women's social
and political union. who declared that
there should be no national boundar-
les in the cause and that, once having
thrown in their lot with the English
nlilitants, they should stay in the fore
front of the battle until parliament
the inactivity of American women per-
manently residing in London, and de-
clare that their attitude IS selfish. In
answer to this, a prominent member
OF the American Women's society stat
ed that her ~compatriots had no more
business to NEEDLE in the English
suffrage movement than an American
nan would have to mix actively in
politics here.
Fights. But Goes to Jail.
The latest American volunteer to
ire A6HSAAS 1o1SCS ol tAe w. .. L. C,
Miss Zelte Emerson, Of Michigan, |
proved herself a strenuous fighter for
the brief time she remained at liberty.
IN is now, however, a guest of his
majesty in Holloway Jail, where she
has just been removed to the second
division after undergoing a hunger
strike as a protest against a sentence
of hard labor for window smashing.
Accompanied by Miss Sylvia Pank-
hurst and George Lansbury, Jr.. son
of the former member of parliament
who resigned his seat to contest Bow
and Bromley on the issue Of equal
suffrage. Miss Emerson made a spec
tacular raid through that slum district.
The raid took both the inhabitants and
authorities by surprise for hitherto
the militants have confined their win
dow smashing to the fashionable shop
ping n office districts, and it was
not until the smashers had destroyed
much glass that they We're arrested. |
The Offices Of the Liberal association
from the raid, and thereby were the
~suffragettes revenged for the failure of
the Liberal party to fight for Lans-
bury in his contest to regain his seat
ns a champion of suffrage. The SEN
tence of hard labor on the raiders was
denounced by their supporters as vim
dictive and they at once went on hun
eSa = ~ Insult vi WHICH, lidS
been their removal to the second divi-
sion.
like Unto a Burglars.
One of the most active fighters in
the w. s. P. U. ranks is Miss Amy
Maud Hicks, formerly a professor at
Bryn Mawr. Her record of previous
convictions reads like that Of a New
York burglar. She is exceedingly
proud Of this record, which is spread
over a page of the new who's Who"
Of woman's suffrage. Miss Hicks is
now so we'll known to the police that
she cannot appear on the street with
out meeting some policeman who has
had the pleasure of accompanying her
to a police station. No one woman
In the militant army has lone more
Tor the GLACIERS trade than Miss Hicks.
Until her return to the United States,
where h has one to become chair
man Of the congressional committee
for woman's suffrage. Miss Alice Paul,
q doctor of philosophy of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. was a close rival
Of Miss Hicks fof the distinction of
serving the longest time in Jail. Miss
Paul Is now at her home in Moores-
town, Pa.
Another American m who has