White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-21
ENGLISH WOMEN
AND SUFFRAGE
PRESENT MILITANT SITUATION
IN GREAT BRITAIN ATTRIB-
UTED TO BETRAYAL OF CONFI-
DENCE BY PARLIAMENT.

Woman's Home Companion, written
by j. Wilson Laurvik:
An Englishman loves freedom for
himself but not for his family. Mil
itaney came out of conditions sur-
rounding ome The women of Eng
land, that is that portion of them
called militants, have gone on a
strike. They have struck against a
government that upholds the condi-
ton OF s~emi-servitude that compels
women to bear children. pay taxes
and assume many of its responsible
tiles of government without sharing
in its making.
The women of England have had
heavy responsibilities without any
privileges. Some of the conditions
under which English ONE labor
are summed up as follows:
First, the law of coverture framed
solely for the safety and convenience
of the husband as opposed 10 the
rights of the wife.
Second. the law of inheritance,
which in every instance excludes her
In favor of some male member of the
family of ten. leaving her a penni-
less dependent upon the male rela-
tives to. whom her due share has
gone, and that further deprives her
of right TO own her own children un-
less they are born out of wedlock.
then she may have them: she has
neither dover rights nor rights as a
mother.
Thirdly. the unjust divorce laws
which safeguards man but exposes
I IN For instance. a married
man may bring another woman than
his wife home. may give her his
wife's bedroom, and the wife can get
no redress. But the least act of in
fidelity on her part entities the hus-
band to absolute divorce.
Fourth. the census of eight years
ago showed the number of women
working at trades to be four mil
lions, most of them are overworked
and i'll paid TO an extent that would
shock Americans. Englishmen have
made these laws and refuse to un-
make them. They have made slaves
out of their own women So you
wonder. reader, that English women.
have gone on a strike
II is a custom in England that
when a man runs for office, his
women relatives are to electioneer
tor him. They can beg votes for
him but they cannot vote.
Since 1870 women have been
working, debating reasoningwith the
English lawmakers to better the con-
ditions of English women, but have
received no aid and many promises
by some men were broken. Thirty
seven years the women waited for
results and got none. Then came
the crisis. In 1907 a women's parlia-
ments. but the horsemen pursued
Is. Mrs. Pankhurst presided over
their meeting and the women voted
n resolution of indignation. that wo-
mans suffrage was omitted from the
kings speech, and calling upon the
House of Commons to give immedi-
ate facilities to such a measure.
When the women approached the
precincts of parliament they found
themselves opposed by a solid line of
police. who at a sharp order from
their chief began to stride thru the
ranks. trying to turn the women
back. A body of mounted police
came riding up and a struggle en-
sued for five hours, which is quite
Undesirable for brutality. The wo-
men left the streets for the pave
ments. but the horsemen pursued
them there too and pressed so close
to the walls and ratings that they
had to retreat or be crushed. Some
of the women hid in the doorways
but were pulled out by the police
and thrown In front of the horses.
Reader. these women were marching
%peaccably to the House of Commons
with a petition and the policemen
who should have been a protection
to them. trod them down like beasts.
What is your opinion of this as chi
valry. as gentlemen. as protectors of
women?
Frustrated on every hand and un-
able to get their views before the
country on account of the unfriend-
ly press, the women resorted to
"Heckling' public speakers. Now
this is regarded by every English
man as his most cherished political
rights and Is so recognized by every
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