Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-26
IIl|[|IANTS WORRY OLD JOHNNY BULL
"Malignants" Have Destroyed $5,oo0e 900 Worth of Property and Driv-
 en Away All Tourists.
Limited Press Service.)

LONDON. May 26.-John Bull is fast acquiring insomnia trying to guess the answer to the question, What shall we do with the wild l women?" So desperate has he be- come over the absolute mockery of the law by the "ma1ignants" that he is almost-but not quite-persuaded to accept the suggestion now serious ly advanced by some eminent men, and certainly endorsed by a large section of the public. Let them die /" l! The failure of the "cat and mouse" act as a cure for militancy has been so thoroughly demonstrated that even Home Secretary McKenna, the auth or, has at last begun to realize that sterner measures will have to be adopted. He is not at any loss for advice. Great Britain is notoriously an epistolary nation, and the office of the "chief of police" of the em- 'pire is nowadays the favorite target of the ever ready letter writers. The suggestions, which are being receiv- ed by the hundreds daily, prescribe punishments varying from tattooing on the chin to deportation for life.
 The recent statistics of window smashing, arson. dynamiting, etc., by no means indicate how sorely John Bull has been hurt in the tenderest part of his anatomy-his pocketbook. The women have destroyed more than five million dollars worth of prop erty since they began their crusade of militancy five years ago. This rep resents only a fraction of the indirect loss in money. Merchants and hotel keepers are complaining bitterly of the falling off of their tourist trade. especially from America. Mary Rich ardson could not have selected a more opportune time, from the suffragette standpoint for her meat-axe assault upon the Rokeby Venus in the Ma tional gallery. The consequent clos ing of all the famous show places of London-the galleries, museums and palaces-com1ng at just the season of the year when folks in the United States were planning their European trips, has, according to the tourists agencies. been irresponsible for thou
 sands either cutting out England en- tirely from their itineraries or cur tailing their expected visits to this country to the minimum. Judging from advance bookings from the oth- CT side, London will be little more than a way-station en route to Paris and other continental points for probably nine-tenths of the Europe bound passenger traffic this season.
 A number of prominent members of parliament are urging as solu- tion Lord Robert Cecil's plan to exile convicted militants to St. Helena or to some British island nearer to Eng land. Deportation seems to be the only thing left" for instance says W. ornsby-Gore. himself an ardent supporter of woman suffrage. Tt would doubtless be an expensive and possibly a dangerous precedent. but consider it absolutely necessary that militancy must be stopped. not on
 ly to prevent the laws being brought into complete contempt but to ad- vance he cause of woman suffrage
 An interesting feature of the Dres- ent anti-suffragette agitation is the attitude of the doctors. The fact that three distinguished members of the profession, medical officers in his