The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-23
CHAPLIN SISTERS WE'RE THE FIRST MARTYRS
 OF SUFFRAGE CAUSE

A lew months ago the neWSpdp6I5 published a cable from London stat ing that Mrs Victoria Claf1in Wood hull Martin of the Manor house, Bredon's Norton, in the west of Eng land, had opened a county salon" and theatre for the farm laborers of the section known as i'darkest Brit aim This was considered but an other of the amiab1e eccentricfties of the remarkable woman who was born in Homer, Ohio, seventy-six years ago to-day, Sept. 2S. 1888, and who has devoted her whole life to genics or the scientific improvement of the human race, and the improve ment of the condition of the work CTS. For forty years, latterly in England she has carried on con- tinuous propaganda in behalf of so- her extensive banking interests to ad- vance the movements with which she was affiliated.
 Mrs Martin is one of two sisters, daughters of Reuben Claf1in of H5- mer, Ohio, who have won interna- tional fame as reformers and suffra- gists. Victoria and Tennessee Clafin were the pioneer stmartyrs'' of the suffrage cause. In 1872, when. Vie toria, afterward Mrs. Canning Wood-
 
 tin, was running for President of the United States on the woman suffrage ticket, both sisters were arrested and thrown into patrol wagon and carted off to Ludlow street jail in New York because they insisted on prison, without any definite charge until public sympathy was aroused. and the New r orl newspapers began to call it persecution, and demanded that they be released or tried pub icly The Isseat and mouse method of Healing with sunragists was orig mated by the New Y ork police~at that time, as the Claf1in sisters were ar rested every time they attempted to make speeches, committed until bail ed out, and then rearrested.
 Tennessee Claf1in, now Lady Cook, and a leader in English suffrage and other movements, startled her adopt ed country last month when she launched a campaign to enlist an ar my of Englishwomeh, to be trained and armed like regular soldiers, ready to defend the country in case mans.
 Lady Cook explained her plan to Queen Mary. TT told shdr explained Lady Cook, about Queen Boadicea. who called upon both sexes to fol- low her in battle. Her scythed chariots moved down the enemy like grass before the scythe. Then there were the Arnazons, too. Women have been brave in the past We aren't all dolls. There are plenty of women knitting socks and doing Red Cross work" continued Lady Cook, .ebut [ want every strong and able bodied woman to learn to use arms so that when the men are away they can defend their homes, their c1li1- dren, and their honor. believe Englishwomen will make good fight CTS. You remember what Hp1ing says about the female of the species being deadlier than the male. The Kaiser thinks we are good for nofh- ing but to cook, bear and rear chi1-s dren and go to church, but if he sends any soldiers over here I want Eng Slishwomen to be in position to prove that he is mistaken.
 My plan, z said the militant mo- blewoman from the Buckeye State, 'is to organize regiments of women dressed in khaki uniforms just like men. with the exception Of knee length skirts being substituted for trousers. T expect 15O,0oo women to be armed, drilled. and organized into armies in three months For several years have been trying to aro1Ise England to the danger of invasion. have stood in front of the Bank Of England and told people that this war was bound to come, but they on- ly laughed"