Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24
A STRANGE ANOMALY.

Eugene Register: One OF the
strangest anomalies in political his
tory is presented by the campaign
that has been waged by the English
suffragettes. These feminine fan
atics-for no milder term can be
truthfully applied to them-are loud
ly demanding the right to vote, yet
by their actions they are demonstrat-
ing every day that they are totally
unfit for suffrage. 1t is as if small
boy should attempt by twisting the
cats tail, pulling his sisters hair
and being impudent and disobedient
to his mother to prove that he is
good little fellow and should be re-
warded with an exceptionally desir-
able Christmas present.
Here is a list of the principal ar
guments whereby these militant suf-
fragettes have sought to convince
John Bull that they should be given
the right to participate in the ma
tion's government:
January IS, 19OS-Prime minis
ter's house raided.
February II, 190S-Fifty women
arrested after raid on house of COM
mons.
June 80, 190S-Twenty-nine wom-
en- arrested outside parliament.
Irish secretary, howled down at City
Temple.
June 80, 190S-One hundred and
twelve women arrested outside par
lament.
November IA, 1909-Winston
Churchill assaulted by suffragette
with dog whip
November 23. 1909-Mr. Birrell is
mobbed in London.
November 20, 19O9-Prime minis
ter howled down at City Temple.
March 1, 1912-$2O,0O damage
by window smashing in West End OF
London.
July 10, 1912-Attempt to set fire
to Nuneham Park, residence of Lewis
Harcourt, secretary of state for the
colonies
July IL, 1912-Bombs sent to Mr.
McKenna, home secretary.
July Is, 1912-Hatchet thrown
into carriage in which prime minister
and John Redmond were driving
through Dublin; attempt to set fire
to Theater Royal, Dublin, packed
with people; Mr. McKenna severely
assaulted in Wales.
July 20, 1912-Prime minister as
saulted at Chester.
November 80, 1912-Paraffil
placed in mail boxes throughout the
country; thousands of letters de
stroyed.
January 80, Hundreds o
windows broken in West End of Lon
don.
February 8, 1913-Raid on jewe
room in Tower of London
February 10, 1913-Bomb explod
ed in Lloyd Georges new house.
February 90, 1913-Kew Gardens
tea house set on fire.
Was ever stranger method takeI
to gain point? 1t is hard to be
lieve that these are the acts OF reas
oning beings, who are carrying on /;
campaign for the right of franchise
Rather this list OF outrages is sug
gestive of the methods of swndical
lists of the most radical type VIII,
seek to gain an undesirable end b.
paralyZing all of the present ma
chinery of industry.
What a strange ideal of citizen
ship these women must have! Sine
they are seeking to win the right t
vote by rioting, window-smashins
bomb-throwing and arson, it must
that the type of person they mos
admire is the low-browed thug VIII
believes in getting what he wants b
brute force.
The English have long affected
superior disdain for Americans an
American ways. Remembering thii
when the nightmare that the Ems
lish women term a suffrage can
paign is compared with the peaceful
orderly and sensible way in whic
the women of our own wester
states have won the ballot, nothin
seems to be appropriate but hors
laugh.