New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-27
MRS. LAWRENCE TO
"OPEN HER MOUTH"
That's What Famous Eng
lish Militant Says She's
Here For.
WILL MAKE LECTURE
TOUR OF COUNTRY
Also viii Go to Washington to
Urge Arbitration Congress
of Neutral Nations.

The mobilization of English militant
suffragists is proceeding favorsbly on
American soil.
First came Miss Annie Kenney, chief
lieutenant of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst.
Miss Kenney is now in the West. help
ing the Congressional Union in the
eight 1t is making to punish the Demo
cratic party for not giving the women
of this country the vote
Last week came Christabel Pank-
hurst, who is going TO tour the states
and says she doesn't know how long
she will stay.
And yesterday Mrs. Pethick Law
renee, who, though she left Mrs. Psnk-
bursts organization because she did
not want 10 burn houses, is still an
ardent militant up TO the point of
arson arrived on the Atlantic Trans
port Line steamship Minnehaha, and
also says she doesn't know how long
she will stay. None of the three con-
tesses 10 intending anything more in
cendiary than speech, but some of the
anti-suffragists are trembling.
Mrs. Lawrence will lecture on Friday
evening at Carnegie Hall. Her subject
will be the war, but she will not imi-
tate Miss Pankhurst in defending the
Allies. She condemns all war, and says
she doesn't understand how any woman
can fail TO do so, since war, il not de-
stroyed, will destroy humanity. The
! title of her lecture will be 1.-THE Euro
pean War from the Viewpoint OF a
Woman"
Mrs. Lawrence said yesterday that
she had come to America 10 "open her
mouth"
Since the war began" she said, az
have been working night and day with
the Women's Emergency Corps. That
corps was started by Miss Lena Ash
we'll; the Duchess of Marlborough is
the treasurer, ] am the financial chair
man. We are not connected with any
fund whatsoever, and aim to be self
supporting, so the financial part of il
means some work.
1--WE are providing work for many
hundreds of women and girls who were
thrown out of employment. That was
the real purpose of the corps, though
as far as possible in our workrooms
things are made for the soldiers. Many
other things we have done-met and
taken care of refugees, etc, but all
this is absolutely non-partisan, and as
an officer of the corps | couldn't talk
suffrage"
Mrs. Lawrence came over here at the
invitation of Mrs. Harriet Stanton
| Batch, whose society, the Women's
Political Union, is getting up the Car
negie Hall meeting. She says she did
not know till she landed that Miss
Pankhurst was in America. Mrs. Law
renee will speak in Boston, Philadel-
phia and Chicago, and probably many
other cities. Her itinerary is being ar
ranged by lecture bureau here.
When she was asked if the work the
English suffragists, militants and non
militants alike, are doing for their
country in its time of stress would not
melt Mr.. Asquith's heart and make
him give them the vote when the war
was over, Mrs. Lawrence shook her
head vigorously.
No, a thousand times, mol" she ex-
claimed. at will not have one grain
Of effect. Whether we get the vote
VIII depend upon our campaign for the
vote. we must play our cards care
, fully, and, above all, we must be care
7 ful not to give too much for nothing.
Women are prone TO give something
for nothing.
"Englishmen DO not highly estimate
woman's service. The Women's Emer-
gency Corps presented to the War De-
partment a plan for conserving our
food supply. requesting only that on
the stationery used the name 'Women's
Emergency Corps should be used. The
plan was adopted, but our name did not
appear on the stationery. We were in
formed that it could not be unless the
word 'women's' was eliminated, and
that we would be more useful if we
dropped that word from our name. |
I could tell you dozens of such stories"
/ In her speeches in this country Mrs.
| Lawrence will plead with women TO
I throw all their influence toward uni
versal peace. II they do not, she de-
clares, even though the present war
ends, the world presently will see one
still more terrible. At a dinner Mrs.
| Batch will give for Mrs. Lawrence to-
morrow night plans looking toward
universal peace will be discussed.
/ Mrs. Blatch said yesterday that when
( Secretary Bryan returned to Washing
ton from his Nebraska . eaking tour
delegation including herself and Mrs.
/ Lawrence, would visit him and urge
! upon him the need of a congress of
( the neutral nations, TO offer their SER
vices as arbitratOrs 70 the nations at
war.