The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-12-31

| couraged to devote herself
1 mainly to her own expert
! f ences, she managed to give a
/ clear picture Of the big move
| ment that she working
| for, perhaps the most remark
| able and puzzng and contra
! jictory movement in history.
| Among the stories told to illustrate the efforts
| of the mtants to win over Englishmen Of dis
tinction to their cause was relating to the
Archbishop of Canterbury Miss Kenney decided
to tackle the archbishop herself So she packed
suitcase, called taxicab and drove to the arch
bishops palace. She sent up he's name by one
of the servants and she was told that the arch
bishop would be delighted to see her. She ex-
planned that she had come to pay him long visit
as she wished to have many talks with him in
order to make clear just what the suffragists were
trying to do. do you mean that you have come
to stay for two three years" the archbishop
asked in CONSERVATION. Miss Kenney replied that
she would not stay for more than few weeks
After brief talk she led by OF the SER
wants into guest room, where she was served
with excellent food by butler who had some
difficulty in keeping his face straight. In the
late afternoon, about dozen detectives appeared
and put her under arrest She was sent to prison.
and she went Immediately hunger strike. On
the palace OF the archbishop and placed on the
steps. The police sent for and she was borne
to the police station From the police station she
was sent to the workhouse. There she decided to
discharge herself and to be taken home. Naturally
these incidents created sensation in the news
papers. 1t gave the militants many columns of
advertising, which they regarded propaganda
Some time later Miss Kenney decided to pay
similar visit to the archbishop OF London.
With a suitcase she descended from her cab and
| entered his presence When she announced that
she had come to stay, he smiled good humoredly
and remarked, But my dear young lady, you
can't stay here. I'm a bachelor" She the
force OF the argument, and she didn't insist but
she did engage the archbishop in a conversation
that ended in his being Not long after
ward, in the House of Lords, he made a brilliant
speech in favor of equal suffrage.
When Miss Kenney had finished her lecture
she said that she would answer any questions
that might be asked First she would ask her
self question that she knew the audience wanted
answered; about the attack the Rokeby Venus.
Behind it there was story. At the time Mrs.
Pankhurst in jail There knowing
when she would get out. The militants were de-
pressed. One of them conceived the idea OF call
ing attention to the situation by SaShng the ideal
type of woman represented in art But did the
public realize the absurdly OF the resulting uproar
while a woman OF Mrs. Pankhursts quality was
being treated like criminal? Whether the public
did or did not, the fact that the day after
the incident Mrs. Pankhurst was released.
From the frank answers Miss Kcnncy made TO
questions, it plain that the mtants justified
their mancy the ground that they en-
gagged in warfare, a new kind OF warfare, to be
sure, kind that they had adopted because they
believed it to be the most effective way of rousing
public opinion. Serious the burning OF
buildings and the destruction OF letters in mail
boxes by means of acids, it not nearly sol
ruthless the warfare established by men, What
the women expected to do when they got the vote
Miss Kenney apparently less interested in |
than what she believed to be the triumph OF big
human principle, principle that directly affected
the wc-being OF all women. But there certain
great abuses in the English laws and customs that
the strugglcrs for womcn's suffrage agreed
to change. They included the inheritance law,
which gave men an unfair advantage over women;
the divorce law, which grossly unfair to
women; the parentage law which made mothers
subordinate to fathers, and regulations affecting
public school teachers where women doing equal
work with men were obliged to take smaller
salaries
The attitude Of the militants toward the war
was the theme of some questioning. Miss Ken
new justified II on the ground of LOYALTY TO country