The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1913-11-03

them much sense-took il into the.
/ heads TO induce some Irish women r.
join their standard and forthwith
/ they descended on Dublin city. and
believing they knew how To touch
the soft spot in the Irish h art. de
clartd boldly and braveIv. if moi
trnthfully, that they were h!oai
relat ons OF Emmett or Lord Edward
fitzgerald. or some of The Irish
patriots who had fought and suffer.
I'd in the cause of freedom. Bu;
! their bull con didn't so. All the
corner-boys from Smock alley. Skin.
ners alley and all the other dirty
alleys OF the city Went 10 the Suf.
fragette meetings in the Park and
i"terrupted-closed up in fact
those Gorgeously costumcd and
titled women by shout ug out the
queries: Does your moth knoH
you're out?" Can you bake a cake?''
Can you darn stocking?" Can
You iron a shirt" Go home and
Iced the pigs and mind the baby"
etc. The sensible Irish women
stayed home minding their bus ness.
The English Suffragettes returned
to England declaring the Irish were
not patriotic: in fact that the Irish
were not Irish at all, but leaving two
OF their number. who attempted -
IRE theater, behind N Jail.
What is called the hunger strike
is the most intere sting feature in
their proceedings. When committed
to jail for their silly and wicked
crimes they refuse to eat and are
artificially fed, which they protest
and kick against. and this causing
sympathy, they are released con.
dltlonally under what IS called the
cat and mouse" or eat and dog
DILL TO eat and reeuperate, and then
they commence again their philan-
dering and burnings and blowing
| ups. up and down the country til
they are thrown in jail again. Mad.
anne Pankhurst says the people of
England are sluggish. which we
know of old. and that they require
waking up. but to blow them up
and close their eyes. perhaps for
ever, is foolish way to wake them
up.
1t has been said and maintained
by some men since the creation of
cats that women have shown that
they have not as much brains as
men, tho indeed it would be easy
for them to have more bra rs than
some men. That contention about
the lnferlority of womea brain
power may or may not be true.
but where | believe these Suffra-
gettes made the mistake of their
lives was in not absolutely refusing
In solid body to eat anyth :ng in
their own homes or anywhere else.
without going into jails and giving
nhnlte bother to policemen maeis-
trates, Jail guards, doctors. surgeons
with their artificial feeding tubes
and matrons. If they had adopted
this plan they would, before the end
of week, have Premier Asauith.
the members of the British cabinet
and the whole body of Englishmen
rushing pell-mell to the bedsides
of the women with plenty of deli
| clous food, not on common platters
or silverware, but on ballot boxes
TO stun them. That would solve the
problem. but the great misfortune
OF some men is they don't under
stand women who don't appear to
understand the mselves. Premi r
Asquith was onl. married twice and
d dn't have time during his busy life
in law and politics to study and un-
derstand women.
Here in Alaska the women got
votes this year without asking, and
they are kicking now when they
read OF the fun and excitement elss-
where because they hadn't an op-
portunity to agitate and set the
snow-capped hills and the glaciers
on fire and do fasting stunt And
now some of them declare they
won't vote. These would-be-fasters
would, ! think, get a glorious appe-
tite if they We're here when grub
was scarce or too high-priced to
buy, or maybe they might fight shy
of keeping Lent in the prescribed
fashion.