The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-13
ANGER AT MILITANTS
GROWING IN ENGLAND
Dissertation Of Westminster Alb
hey Increases Popular Feel
ing Against Them.
DIsTURBERS IN THEATRES
Suffragettes Also Try to Burn
Another Ancient
Church.
Special cable Despatch 10 THE srs.

NpecidI tfote DespdfrH 10 THE svS.
LONDON. June I3.-Popuiar anger
against the militant sufYragettes which
as noted in past cables has for long
time been on the increase, has been i'm
mensely stimulated by the outrage on
Thursday at Westminster Abbey, which
Is valued. apart from Its religious ASSOC
Citations. as great national treasure.
II was, perhaps, less because OF Thurs
days bomb itself that the general In
dignatlon was Increased than the EVIL.
denco II furnished OF the ease with which
pampered criminal women were able to
carry out crimes and The knowl ledge
that the worst would likely follow.
Home Secretary McKennas state
ment In the House Of Commons on Thurs
day that the cat and mouse act was
working well and that he knew Of moth.
ing further that could be done except tina,
subscribers to the suffragette funds would
be prosecuted does not bring satisfac-
tion. No one supposes that the action
on which the Home Secretary relies will
have any effect and the public awaits
hourly to learn not whether any fresh
outrage has occurred but what form Il
OF the law and the shiftless attitude Of
the Home ONCE anything is possible.
To Prosecute Subscribers.
The authorities express belief that the
plan of prosecuting subscribers TO the
militant fund. brought UP again Thurs
day in the HOUSE Of Commons by Reg
maid Mckenna, Home Secretary, will stop
the income Of the militants to a great
extent. Another difficulty In applying
this plan has developed. however. 4
large part of the money subscribed is
given for purposes of education" The
use OF the word may interfere with bring
ing responsibility for the outrages homc
to the subscribers. but the authorities point
, ON that the methods of education" are
not specified but are left to the judgment
Of Mrs. pankhurst and that the sort OF
! education" favored by the head OF the
Women's Political and Social Union has
received sufficient publicity to become
pretty generally known.
The public has not yet taken the matter
into its own hands. but the things are
surely drifting that way and the anger
OF the people is likely some day to assert
itself In an appalling fashion. In which
the innocent will be victims Of the popular
wrath along with the guilty. The wild
women" continue to rely, as they have
! hitherto been able to rely implicitly. on
| he protection of the police. who show
\ themselves to be more concerned over
| the women themselves than the pubic
safety.
women Protected ut Portsmouth.
The people OF Portsmouth were baked
| again yesterday of wreakinB vengeance
On the suffragettes. Tho late tried 10
! mold a meeting in the street and def1antly
Wanted their flag in the face of u crowd
| OF 1900. The flag was seized and torn
! to pieces. The car on which the speakers
stood was seized and overturned. but the
police Immediately came to the rescue
Mounted men drove the crowd back and
| escorted the women to the town hall
where they protected them for hours un
| I'll the danger had passed. Many innocent
women were mobbed and hustled about.
Equally defiant Of the pubic indigna
ton, London suffragettes visited severa
| theatres last night and interrupted thu
performances. The audiences at Daily
the Duke of York's His Majesty's. th'
Queens and the New theatres were amonl
| those subjected TO insults. All the inter
rupters were elected amid angry demon
strations by the playgoers. especially tn
women. In one case the disturDer of {
performance was roughly handled. Thes'
are among the straws which show tn
way the wind IL blowing toward the mill
tants
Members OF the milltants "arsoI
| SQUAD attempted to burn the oil.
st. Margarets Church at Chipstea'i
fourteen miles southeast OF London yes
rday morning. The lire, set In tire
distinct places in the ancient building
was extinguished before It had done an.
great damage.
The vanaals placed pieces of felt sat
urated with oil in different parts OF thu
church and then set fire to them. Thu
Rev. William II. stone. the rector, ant
villagers put out the blazes. The church
dates from the twelfth century.
Westminster Abbey was opened al usua
yesterday except for st, Edward the Con
fessor's chapel. Morning service wa
largely attended. The congregation wa
made up chiefly of women and the po
lice looked each OF them over CAREFUL,
hefore admitting her.