The Washington herald., 1914-09-27

they were set upon. their banners broken,
and Sylvia and some others were arrest
ed. l had followed along near enough to
! see the attack and the scuffie, and when
! l turned to go back there was an i'm
| movable mass of people on the pave
ment The mounted police were pushing
them before them and l was one OF
those ordered to move along.
l reached and patted the horse-such
beautiful creatures as the police-horses
are-and said l was not going to get in
that jam. Then he Joined the others and,
! literally rode them down on the pave
ment before them. To the next police who
/ ordered me to move on my English COM
! panion said, She'll tell them in the
| United States how women are treated
here"
oh, you are from America" and i'm
rlcdiately the policeman wanted to talk.
Yes" I said; - em from 4 State
where women vote, and I never thought
to see women treated as you have treat
ed them hero this afternoon"
1t helps one to understand the way in
which English women face tie police 10
be in a scufie like that because newt
ably the feeling is generated to stand
ones ground and not - be ordered
about have had this feeling when, lin
gering in the crowd n the door Of I suf-
frage meeting, I have been told to move
along, and l have calmly replied: Yes,
l am going as soon as I have bought a
Votes for Women Will you kindly tell
me where they can be had"
And instead OF knocking me over the
head, he courteously puts himself out Of
the way in that throng TO get me the
vender Of the suffrage papers. ! am sure
il is my American accent" that they
talk SO much about which gets me all
kinds Of immunities Certainly one is
proud to see the unconscious tribute of
respect that is paid to ones country in
all sorts of kindnesses 10 ones self
The greatest thing that happened in
the summer of 1913 as far as il will af-
feet the future of the Liberal party was
the arrival in London Of forty bailies and
councilmen from Edinburgh and Glasgow
with the intention of interviewing Mr..
Asquith to let him know that Scotland
was not satisfied with his treatment Of
women. They sent him word they were
coming, and he promptly replied that he
would not see them. They wrote back
they would not take No for an answer.
but would stand on their rights as citi-
zens and be at his ofice at such a day.
They were there, hut Mr.. Asqulth was
not.
This should demonstrate to the world !
women have had to deal Here were men |
of great Importance and dignity, Liberals |
and law-abiding citizens. coming in a per
fectly constitutional way to lay their re- |
quest before a man whom they had al |
ways supported and who was constitu- !
tionally bound TO receive petitions and /
delegates Of the people. And yet there !
was on Mr.. Asquiths part the same dis
regard for the personal rights and liber- !
ties which have been won for British !
subjects through ages of struggle, that
he has always shown women.
Not being able to secure an interview
with the Premier these sturdy Scotch
men made speeches at Mr.. Asquith's
doorstep in which respect they had an
advantage over women. who have always
been maltreated when they have ap-
preached Downing street And during
their four days stay in London they
made constant speeches against the
treatment that had been accorded them,
eliminating in a great afternoon meet
ing at the London pavilion. i
Here the Scotchmen had the oppor-
tunity to see Mrs. Pankhurst arrested, J.
or rather to see $50 policemen rush into
the anteroom which she had entered on
her way to the platform. The councillors
made effective speeches, and one could
not but feel that some Of these at least
would keep their word and oppose the
Liberal party thereafter because Of its
treatment by the women. They were /
going oack, tneJ SAID, to fight Mr.
Asquith by constitutional means and
they believed that all Scotland was be- ,
hind them.
A notable speech at this pavilion meet {
ng was made by Mrs. Flora MacDon- .
I'D Denison. president of the Canadian
Woman Suffrage Association. She said {
here was no one to whom to compare
Mrs. Pankhurst but Abraham Lincoln, !
md the reason he was so great was be- ]
;ause he also stood for the freedom of ]
he enslaved. Annie Henney. serving I
Ter long term of Imprisonment in such I
bits as did not quite extinguish the I
park Of life, was present at the meet 5
ng after her four days hunger and s
hirst strike. Poor little ghost of her ]
ormer self. ashen gray in color. bent ]
ny head forward and wept as did many '
u the proverbially 'hard-headed" s
scotchmen on the platform. II
her license to be out a few days was q
'CuSht by an American in the audience
! no sald he was going to present il to
resident Wilson, which was accepted I
" the audience as promise that some ?
Lllhs would De done TO help the women I
Il once. CThere have been known in. (
tShces OF nation interfering on be- S
an OF the citizens of another nation). j
men the collection was taken the first e
700 was contributed by an American, h
mo afterWard added enough to bring p
he sum up to Sl,50O This was to he $
he answer to Mr.. McKenna for his [
rrest Of Mrs. Pankhurst ii