The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21
Mrs. Norman de r. Whitehouse


is.a which mara not kent tbev began to
hraaL .,,nao,v. In nro,ast And now
they hay. corr. % acts q, burning and
araa,.r s..,r,,o,,o, Tn,. corr.e &C
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Clio =. q, man In EnvIand havs gained
an,ranch,..,n.n, .,csn, ,hro,yvh No
,anns
s,r vuy,,.r r., t1.nco,r, a. .,nnosea N
haya .a,d "a ,h. or,, rs,or,,, hiil. "Eor
mo mort don.t h.I,.ys IN anv nonular
discon,ent unt,l 7 hear N ricks on Are
ana Sac,or,e. In ear.s" WHEN cham
herlain IN 1894 had ,hr.a,.nad 70 ,onrch
,oo ooo ,,.n ,ron, p,rr,,n.hau 20 Ior-
don In s,,nnor, y, on. ,ranchI.. b,il
ciods,ona h,rs.,, nod .a,5. "I, No in
.,r,,o,,on. haa 80 49, aaarassaa q,
no,,,ic.I cr,se. m ,ha raonis ~ This
country excen. n hate violence and
love order and exercise patience the
liberties Of this country would never
have been attained" Lord Randolph
Churchill. arguing against this same
franchise bill of 1884. had said that
M there has been no such "consider-
able disturbances and dangerous riots"
as had marked the pas-age of earlier
reform bills, the present electoral ar
rangements do not excite any very
general or deep dissa tisfaction." And
Mr. Hobhouse, speaking of woman suf-
frage. had doubted that there was any
popular sentiment for II, such as had
| led to the burning of Nottingham Castle
! and the throwing down of the Hyde
Park ratings by men formerly seeking
| suffrage.
The suffragists up TO that time had
been ridiculed for their policy OF pin
pricks.' They. learning from prece-
dents and driven to desperation by the
constant betrayal OF promises on the
part or the Government and by the
blocking OF their piiis by the Prime
MINISTER Wneh THESE hhu clearly the
support OF the majority OF fariiament,
uecioeu 10 apahuoh their poilcy OF pm
prchs anu ehpark on 'heir present
course Oh violence 10 property
Such history would be impossible In
| America. The sunragists here do not
have to wage their fight against one
| pre)udiced and dominant mantle
Prime Minister-and his all powerful
Cabinet. The Government OF America
Is In the hands ot the voters of America.
All the males or the country over Fl
years old could not be intimidated by
comparatively small number or wom-
en-, whereas Prime Minister and a
Cabinet might be.
Here the women have a fair educa-
tional campaign to conduct and when
the men themselves are ready to give
support to the women's desire to vote
no PRESIDENT, no cabinet, no Governor,
no minority OF any House can prevent
their doing so.
In view of these facts, 1t Is to be
hoped that the predictions OF disaster
to the suffrage cause in America as a
consequence OF militant activity in
! England will prove groundless.
All signs seem to point to the fact that
in spite of the newspaper alarms Ameri-
cans have too much good sense and are
too just to be preJudiced by such an
argument The very day the New York
Times wrote in Its editorial column that
the militants have made woman suf-
frage stencil in the nostrils OF de-
cent persons" the General Federation
OF Women's Clubs body representing
100000 women. whose decency cannot
be doubted, indorsed the principle OF
woman suffrage. This action came af-
ter struggle OF twenty years to break
down the federation's constitutional bar
on political and religious subjects. As
coincidence. that very day also, the
Supreme Court OF Illinois decided that
the enfranchisement given to the women
; OF the State by the Illinois Legislature