Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-13
HUNGER STRIKER
UPHOLDS VIOLENCE
English Suffragette Advises
American Suffragettes Not
to Try 1t Here.

Although she defended militancy On
the part of English suffragettes, Miss
Elsie Mackenzie, pretty worker for
the cause, who originated the hunger
strike" in defense of the principles,
advised an audience in Club Hall,
Montclair, last night not to try it in
this country. Conditions, she said,
were different on the other side of
the ocean, and her countrywomen
were obliged to resort to violence as
the only method of obtaining enfran-
chisement.
She explained that the suffragettes
in England had to use militant meas
ures to get notice from the press.
Large, important ass-meetings were
passed over with line, While the
breaking of window received the
attention necessary to make the
movement widespread. to make the
people srealize for what the women
were striving.
In speaking of window-smashing,
Miss Mackenzie said that the suf-
fragettes started with the govern
ment windows because, as they had
helped to pay for them, they felt that
they were only getting back some
thing that belonged to. them. When.
however, the citizens persisted in re-
turning to power government which
they knew to be antagonistic to the
acknowledgment of women, thus
booming the cause, they considered 1t
wise to make 1t uncomfortable for
the private citizens until they dis
continued returning that government.
Traces Fate of Suffrage Bill.
Miss Mackenzie briefly traced the
fate of the suffrage bill and showed
how time after time the women have
been tricked by the government.
In speaking of the career of Mrs
Pankhurst the speaker said that she
had permitted herself to be arrested
in order that by speaking from the
prisoners dock she could reach the
judges and juries and. through the
newspaper reports, the people OF
England and of the other countries.
When asked If the suffragettes
would take human life Miss Mac
kenzie responded that such meas
ure would be taken only as a last
resource. and she knew that as wom-
en- value life so highly that point
would never be reached.
In response to q question about the
bomb under st. Paurs, Miss Mac
kenzie replied that she had not heard
with authority that it was the work
of the suffragettes, suggested that
there We're ants capable Of doing the
deed in order to have the suspicion
thrown upon the suffragettes and in
I timated that it might have been
placed in such way as not to ex-
plode, but simply to intimidate the
House of Commons.
Tells of Sacrifice.
The speaker emphasized the sacri-
4 fee of the English women to supply
the vast amount of money at the dis
posal of the cause. She explained the
politics brought to. bear to veto the
bill in the cabinet and pointed oui
] that. the women are. willing to have
/ the franchise on the same terms al
the men, knowing that after com
paratively few are enfranchised the
others can work with the men for the
extension of the suffrage.
State Senator Helen King Robin
son and General. Rosalie Jones also
spoke.
The Rev Edgar S. Wiers gave q
short talk before the collection, which
was taken in frying pans, symbolic,
the speaker declared of some peo-
pies idea of woman's sphere.
Mrs. George G. Scott. president OF
the Montclair Equal Suffrage League,
under whoseA auspices the. meeting
was held. presided, and at the bust
ness session the following officers
We're elected: President. Mrs. Scott;
vice. president, Miss Alice Parsons;
corresponding secretary. Miss Eva
Rose; recording secretary, Miss Cas-
sandra I<insman; treasurer, Mrs. Ar
thur Hunter. and auditor, Mrs. Frank
Kidde.