White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-10-26
MRS. PANKHURST
ALLOWED ENTRY
ENGLISH SUFFRAGETTE SAYS
MILITANT METHODS ARE NOT
NECESSARY I'm THE LAND OF
THE FREE.

uay W MIS-. fmfneilne Pankhurst and
during the few weeks covered by her
lecture engagements the British
militant suffragist leader is free to
go where she will in the United
States. An order releasing the
much-diseussed visitor from deten-
ton at Ellis Island, New York, and
revoking the deportation order of
the special inquiry board. was issued
after President Wilson had conferred
with Secretary Wilson of the depart
ment of labor and a formal hearing
before immigration Commissioner
Caminetti on Mrs. Pankhurst's ap-
peal had been conducted.
Secretary Wilson announced that
he and the president had agreed that
Mrs. Pankhurst should be admitted
ION her W reeognizance," with the
understanding that she should de-
part when she had fulfilled her lee
ture engagements. Both the presi-
dent and the secretary agreed with
Commissioner Caminetti in the OPP
inion that there was an element of
doubt as to whether the acts for
which Mrs. Pankhurst had been con
victed in England constitute moral
turpitude or were political in charac-
ter.
She didn't look at all like an un-
desirable alien as she walked down
the dock to the ferry, says Winifred
Black in telling of her talk with the
prominent English suffragette.
When asked If she were surprised
at the outcome If her case. she said
Surprised? Why of course I'm not
surprised"
rs anybody"
May ! ask-who?"
The immigration commissioners
oh, now do you seriously think
they wanted TO hold me? 1t sounded
to me like one of your clever Ameri-
can jokes-really it did-when | first
heard II.
Fancy branding moral tu%rpitude'
across my forehead and sending me
back across the ocean like some poor
soul with the leprosy.
How could anyone with any sense
of humor do such a thing and, after
all you know you Americans have a
sense Of humor, haven't you? Why
even in England nobody called me
really guilty of moral turpitude.'
You know the things they do in Eng
land-but what was it you wanted
to ask me about?
My stay in quarantine? Perfect
ly pleasant. | assure you; everyone
was most kind. and what a nice class
of women you have there.
I'VE look TO America for toler-
ance. for freedom, for liberty; what
is it you say in your song, The land
of the free and the home of the
brave'-you certainly couldn't sing
that If you refused to let a woman
land on YOU shores just because she
is devoting her life to trying to help
other women, could you?
THE Goddess of Liberty out there
in the harbor-what would she mean
If you did such a thing as that?
II hope the news has been cabled
TO England that ! an free to land
il will be a slap in the face to our
enemies in England.
do | believe they had anything
to do with my being detained? Well,
as they say in Scotland, 4 dina ken.
but ha' mae doots.' that's the way ]
feel about il.
what am | going to do in this
country? I'm going to talk and
work and do everything | can TO get
the sympathy of the American peo-
pie on the side of the English suf-
fragettes.
shall talk militant methods
here?
81 shall do no such thing. You
don't need militant methods in Amer
lea. Every American | meet tells me
that if the women of this country
really want the vote all they have to
do is to ask for it and the men of this
country will give it to them.
THAT is not true in England. The
women of England do want to vote
almost as much "a they want to live
and the men Of England will not even
listen to us when We try to tell them
why.
"They know why-only too we'll
they know 1t.
why. an Englishman "a bring
another woman right into his home,
he can make his wife receive her at
her own table no matter who she is
or what she is and there is no law in
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