The Washington herald., 1914-07-26
women ORGANIZE
new MOUTHPIECE
United Sufragists' to Form
Rallying Point for Seventy
Associations.
WILL OFFSET MILITANTS
Mr.. and Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence Head
Movement to Silence" Outbreaks
by Peaceful Persuasion.
WILL OFFSET MILITANTS
By CLARA REw1Ck Colby.

Great events have been taking place
in England in this month OF July to-
ward which the whole movement Of the
last seven years has been inevitably tend
ing. II was impossible for persons who
have been stirred by the heroic efforts Of
women made at any cost OF suffering and
sacrifice TO themselves, to rest again
content with the quiet educational meth
DDS which had proven so valuable in the
earlier and academic stages Of the move
ment: and IL was equally impossible for
the militancy of the womans Social and
Political Union not 10 run itself under
ground and destroy its possibility OF be-
ing an open, free-handed instrument of
bringing the government 10 terms on
this question.
Therefore a new Organization has been
brought about by Mr.. and Mrs. Pethick-
Lawrence. formerly leaders in the W. 8.
P. L., but who severed their connection
with II when its present policy was un.
dertaken. The United Suffragists" will
form a raIlying point for all the great ma
tional suffrage organizations, OF which
there are about seventy In the British
Islands. and will 70 i'm a mouthpiece for
them so that II will be no longer possible
for the most unenliShtened to wholly
identify the suffrage. movement in Eng
land with the militant actions which are
the only ones We get information about
through the ordinary news purveyors.
The Party Platform.
The colors Of the new organization are
purple, white, and orange. Its platform
Is thus outlined: 1T is essential TO the
welfare OF the whole movement that as
the militant section is driven under
ground there should arise a strong inter-
ho
tween the revolutionary section and the
party of peaceful persuasion: determined
OF front. strong OF action. politically
militant. and ready II need be TO chal-
lenge oppression and set aside conven-
ton: with a stable organization that re-
mains above ground and intact for ocn-
stitutional agitation"
Those who know the ability and devo-
ton with which Mr.. and Mrs Pethick-
Lawrence have served the militant move
ment, have maintained the leading suf-
fraEe paper. Votes for Women" and
have kept up the Votes for Women Fell
lowship through all this trying time until
IL could give birth to the United Suffra-
gists. will not doubt their ability to guide
the new organization according TO the
method inculcated by our copy-books as
necessary for success;-"suaviter in mo-
do, fortiter in re-
The new organization had a good send
OF at a Trafalgar Square meeting a few
days ago when the East London Fedora
ton with its colors of white. green. and
red. and the red dragon Of the Forward
Cymric League united with them in a |
calling upon the government to |
Introduce a government measure for |
Suffrage and to summon a special |
autumn session for this purpose.
Sylvia PnnI<hurst n. Leader.
This East London Federation is not a |
organization. Its founder and |
leader. Sylvia Pankhurst having sew
cred her connection with her mother and |
sister as far as organized work is con-
,erned. II was this organization that ac-
,ompanied Sylvia to the steps Of the
House of Commons when she avowed her
Intention to starve there unless she could
present her petition to Mr.. Asquith. There
was method in what looked like madness
or II is according to an old tradition that
me who comes to the threshold with his
wrongs must be attended to or the injury
will reflect back upon the dweller there
n. This has Just been brought out in a
,lay by w B. Yeats entitled THE Kings
Threshold" The plot turns upon an oc-
,urence similar to the act of Sylvia
'ankhurst- The King in the play walls:
There is a custom. |
In old and foolish custom. that II a man II
Be wruuged. think that he is wrong and starre
Upon Gnothsr's threshold until he die.
The common people for all time to come
viii raise a heavy CRY against that threshold,
Even tho 1t be the kings
While he is lying there
'erishing. my good name in the world
. perishing also |,
II will be remembered that when Mr..
AsquIth gave the hearing to the depu
alton from the East End as a concession
o Miss Pankhurst, one OF the women
rho spoke was Mrs. Hughes. brush
ead maker. She showed a brush head
Fhich she hersef had made 1t took her
wo hours she said to fill the two hundred
oles in the brush and the wage for =!
Fas two pence A woman has just been,
entsnced by the police Judge for steal