New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03
M|L|TANCY HER THEME
Mrs. Pankhurst will Seek to
Justify Her Methods.
FIRST MEETING IN GARDEN
Mayor Kline Will Be Invited to
Speak with English
Suffragette.

The committee in charge Of Mrs Pank-
bursts tour announced last night that she
would arrive here on October IS and
would speak in Madison Square Garden
the following evening. Carnegie Hall had
been decided on for Mrs Pankhursrs first
speech but Miss Joan Wickham. the suf-
frage leaders advance agent. said the au-
dience would undoubtedly he so great that
the larger hall would be necessary. Mrs.
O. II. 2. Belmont is TO make the speech
introducing Mrs. Pankhurst Invitations
will be sent to Mayor Kline and other
city officials 10 attend and deliver adj
dresses.
When Mrs. Pankhurst has spoken IN
Madison Square Garden the people who
hear her will know. hope. what the
situation is in England and will realize
how misleading are many OF the news
Taper reports OF the militants and their
doings"
II was Miss Wickham who was speak
ing. and she held in her hand the account
Of .he arrest on October / Of Mrs Beatrice
Saunders and Miss Harriet Roberts Kerr
at the headquarters Of the Women's So
cial and Political Union. in Nncoln's Inn
House. Kingsway The account stated
that there was a "lIvely scrimmage" and
that one policemans tunIc was torn to
shreds"
Mrs Saunders and Miss Kerr are paid
workers IN the offices Of the Union Miss
Wickham said Mrs. Saunders is the
financial secretary and Miss Kerr is a
clerk and directs the ten or twelve typists
in the Offices. They arc working for sal
aries-small salaries, not more than So
each, for women get much smaller salaries
IN England than here.
Being paid workers. Mrs. Saunders
and Miss Kerr had nothing whatever O.
do with the acts Of the militants. They
were clerks and nothing else. Yet they
were sentenced last June at the London
/ Assize Court for conspiracy
t. long terms I'm Jail. It is. you see, the
policy Of the government to cripple our
movement by constantly arrestng the
workers who keep the machinery going
in our offices.
THAT those workers are not guilty OF
the thing for which they are arrested
makes no difference apparently to the
government
Mrs Saunders and Miss Kerr started
q hunger strike when they were sent 10
jaiI in June and nearly died from the
effects. They were liberated under the
cat and mouse act, and October re-
turned TO the Office for the first time.
And then they were rearrested.'
! Miss Wickham said an instance Of the
difference between the government y
treatment OF women and Of men was
: shown in the experience of George Ions
bury. who resigned from Parliament be-
cause he thought that body dealt too UNI
fairly with suffrage. and who is standing
| for reelection on the suffrage issue.
Mr.. Lonsbury was arrested for con
spiracy,'" Miss Wickham said. and re-
leased from Jail on license Since his re-
lease he has been speaking constantly
and has had postcards made Of his IL
censc and sold them for suffrage. lie has
never been rearrested.
Women who break their licenses are
rearrested constantly. ] hope Mr.. Ions
bury will tell the story of this when he
lectures in this country In December"